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Development Of A Brief Rating Scale For The Formative Assessment Of Positive Behaviors, James Cressey
Development Of A Brief Rating Scale For The Formative Assessment Of Positive Behaviors, James Cressey
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In order to provide effective social, emotional, and behavioral supports to all students, there is a need for formative assessment tools that can help determine the responsiveness of students to intervention. Schoolwide positive behavior support (SWPBS) is one framework that can provide evidence-based intervention within a 3-tiered model to reach students at all levels of risk. This dissertation begins the process of developing a brief, teacher-completed rating scale, intended to be used with students in grades K-8 for the formative assessment of positive classroom behavior. An item pool of 93 positively worded rating scale items was drawn from or adapted …