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Parent‐Teacher Agreement on Kindergarteners' Behavior Problems: a Research Note
Author(s) -
Gag Claude,
Vitaro Frank,
Tremblay Richard E.
Publication year - 1992
Publication title -
journal of child psychology and psychiatry
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.652
H-Index - 211
eISSN - 1469-7610
pISSN - 0021-9630
DOI - 10.1111/j.1469-7610.1992.tb00944.x
Subject(s) - psychology , consistency (knowledge bases) , agreement , developmental psychology , internal consistency , rank (graph theory) , behavior problem , psychometrics , philosophy , linguistics , geometry , mathematics , combinatorics
The present study investigated parameters of agreement as well of disagreement among mothers and teachers ratings of the behavior of kindergarten boys and girls. Findings indicated a generally low to moderate level of agreement between these two types of informants. They also suggested that demographic and background characteristics can effect size and direction of level of agreement. Although proportions of children rated as having the listed behavior problems varied in magnitude according 10 mothers and teachers, the rank order of the proportion of children with those behavior problems was rather similar for both informants. Such similar rankings of prevalence rates may reflect parents' and teachers' agreement on the consistency of children's behavior across the home and school settings.