About the Measure
| Domains | Mental health and wellbeing, Motivation, goal orientation and perseverance, Social and Emotional Competence |
| Key stages | Key Stage 1, Key Stage 2, Key Stage 3 |
| Subscales | Task orientation; Behavior control; Assertiveness; Peer social skills |
| Description | This instrument is a brief objective rating scale used to identify problem behaviours and competencies. Each primary subscale contains both positive and negative items which are referred to as secondary scales. |
| Example | Has difficulties following directions |
| Link | https://www.childrensinstitute.net/services/assessment/TCRS-screening-tool/why |
| Psychometry | |
| Implementation |
Implementation details
| No. of items | 32 |
| Format | Likert |
| Respondent | Teacher |
| Scoring | Complex |
| Time | 0 |
| Age | 4-14 |
| Cost single purchase | Manual: $58.50 |
| Cost per child | $2.50 |
Psychometric details
| UK norms | No |
| Cronbach's α | .83-.94 |
| Test retest | 7 weeks, r= [.66,.80] |
| Inter-rater reliability | Not reported |
| EFA | Original T-CRS 1 |
| CFA | CFI= .98 AGFI= .97 NFI=.97 NNFI= .97 |
| Criterion validity | Not reported |
| Construct validity | Significant negative correlations with Child-Behavior Checklist-Teacher Report Form, r= [-.89,-.37] |
| Concurrent validity | r= [.56,.82] between original Teacher-Child Rating Scale (T-CRS) scales and Health Resources Inventory (HRI) |
| Predictive validity | Risk status versus random group membership was correctly predicted 60.9% of the time. |
| Responsiveness | Not reported |
| Floor/Ceiling | Not reported |
| References | Hightower, A. D. & Elliot Perkins, P. Teacher-Child Rating Scale 2.1 Examiner's Manual. New York, NY: Children's Institute. Hightower, A. D., Work, W. C., Cowen, E. L., Lotyczewski, B. S., Spinell, A. P., Guare, J. C., & Rohrbeck, C. A. (1986). The Teacher-Child Rating Scale: A brief objective measure of elementary children’s school problem behaviors and competencies. School Psychology Review, 15(3), 393-409. doi:10.1037/t05347-000 |