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Marshall University

2021

BESS

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An Examination Of The Use Of The Bess With Rural Appalachian Preschoolers, Savana B. Earnest Jan 2021

An Examination Of The Use Of The Bess With Rural Appalachian Preschoolers, Savana B. Earnest

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The use of universal behavioral screenings is endorsed by school psychology training programs as a gold standard of practice, but the implementation of these screenings is less common. Due to this, it is crucial that research examines reliability, validity, and all other psychometric properties when implementing a universal behavioral screening. Literature tells us that the BESS TRSP has shown to have moderate-to-high predictive validity and high stability coefficients in a variety of urban and rural populations of preschool and school age children. This research examined stability of high and low risk scores on the BESS TRSP within a rural Appalachian …