About the Measure
Domains | Mental health and wellbeing, Social and Emotional Competence |
Key stages | Key Stage 1 |
Subscales | Using opportunity; Conforming to rules |
Description | The Social Competence Scale was designed to measure the young child's mastery of the preschool environment. |
Example | Child can communicate his emotional needs to the teacher |
Link | https://www.researchconnections.org/childcare/resources/10805 |
Psychometry | |
Implementation |
Implementation details
No. of items | 73 |
Format | Likert |
Respondent | Teacher |
Scoring | Standardised |
Time | 0 |
Age | 3-7 |
Cost single purchase | Free - Available |
Cost per child | Free - Available |
Psychometric details
UK norms | No |
Cronbach's α | .35-.78 |
Test retest | r= [.60,.66] (same teacher 6 months) r= [.41,.44] (12 months different teacher) |
Inter-rater reliability | Between pairs of teachers, r= [.62,.66] |
EFA | 2 separate EFAs< |
CFA | Not reported |
Criterion validity | Not reported |
Construct validity | Not reported |
Concurrent validity | Not reported |
Predictive validity | Not reported |
Responsiveness | Not reported |
Floor/Ceiling | Not reported |
References | Kohn, M. & Rosman, B.L. (1972). A social competence scale and symptom checklist for the preschool child: Factor dimensions, their cross-instrument generality and longitudinal persistence. Developmental Psychology, 6(3), 430-444. |