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. |