Premium
Cross‐informant agreement of children's social‐emotional skills: An investigation of ratings by teachers, parents, and students from a nationally representative sample
Author(s) -
Gresham Frank M.,
Elliott Stephen N.,
Metallo Sarah,
Byrd Shelby,
Wilson Elizabeth,
Cassidy Kaitlan
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
psychology in the schools
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.738
H-Index - 75
eISSN - 1520-6807
pISSN - 0033-3085
DOI - 10.1002/pits.22101
Subject(s) - psychology , inter rater reliability , extant taxon , developmental psychology , social skills , sample (material) , social emotional learning , clinical psychology , rating scale , chemistry , evolutionary biology , biology , chromatography
This study examines the agreement across informant pairs of teachers, parents, and students regarding the students’ social‐emotional learning (SEL) competencies. Two student subsamples representative of the social skills improvement system (SSIS) SEL edition rating forms national standardization sample were examined: first, 168 students (3rd to 12th grades) with ratings by three informants (a teacher, a parent, and the student him/herself) and a second group of 164 students who had ratings by two raters in a similar role—two parents or two teachers. To assess interrater agreements, two methods were employed: calculation of q correlations among pairs of raters and effect size indices to capture the extant rater pairs differed in their assessments of social‐emotional skills. The empirical results indicated that pairs of different types of informants exhibited greater than chance levels of agreement as indexed by significant interrater correlations; teacher–parent informants showed higher correlations than teacher–student or parent–student pairs across all SEL competency domains assessed, and pairs of similar informants exhibited significantly higher correlations than pairs of dissimilar informants. Study limitations are identified and future research needs outlined.