Rating scale

What is the name, acronym, and publication date of the assessment? This assessment is named the Childhood Autism Rating Scale-2 or CARS -2 with a publication date of 2010. 2 What is the age range for Childhood Autism Rating Scale-2 administration? This assessment has an interesting age range. It starts with a range of children age 2 and up. However, it goes on to say children both under and over the age of 6 should have an IQ of 79 or below. If this isn’t the case, they should have a significant problem with communication to use this assessment. Furthermore, this tool provides the CARS -HF for those students with an IQ of 80 or higher and are able to communicate. 3 What is the assessment purpose of the Childhood Autism Rating Scale-2?…

On one side, The Social Readjustment Rating Scale SRRS), is a psychometric tool/ questionnaire developed by Holmes and Rahe in 1967 and revisited in 1997. It was initially used for well-established adults. The purpose of the scale is to detect the major stressful events, which can cause stress and its allies (depression, anxiety, and desperation) in your life. They also wanted to know its correlation with illness. This questionnaire evaluates the influence of internal or external stressors that…

The task was ours to identify and present the School Special Services Rating Scale to a total of four teachers of a primary or high school. The teachers’ responsibility were to select students in their class who met the following criteria such as; • Attends school regularly • Having difficulty with academic achievement especially in reading • Performs better at oral tasks than written tasks • Difficulty learning despite the teacher’s perception that the child appears to be normal or above…

observational rating scale (CIWA-Ar) assessed by a physician, is a standard measuring tool, which uses a set of compared scores that was valued at a global rating of severity (Williams et al., 2001). The CIWA-Ar includes a 7-point-rating scale pertaining to anxiety levels. A clinician or nurse asks the client to rate themselves from 0 (no anxiety) to 7 (equal to acute panic state as seen in severe delirium or acute schizophrenic reactions). Metcalfe et al. (1995) looked at concurrent validity…

matches severity indices o Recognizing it fits into literature • Continued literature review o Key words: Vanderbilt, ADHD, validity o Articles I narrowed down  Psychometric Properties of the Vanderbilt ADHD Diagnostic Parent Rating Scale in a Referred Population (Wolraich et al., 2003) • Internal consistency and factor structure = acceptable, consistent with DSM-IV • Good reliability  The Psychometric Properties of the Vanderbilt ADHD Diagnostic Parent Rating Scale in a Community Population…

The Environment Rating Scale is an incredibly useful tool when utilized properly. It gives clear-cut, clean guidelines for a school/daycare environment and an overall decent idea of what a healthy, happy atmosphere looks like. When using the scale for the first time it may seem imposing because there is just so much information to address and process. I think to avoid being overwhelmed by it is to simply use it over and over again until it becomes second nature. It is an impressive tool that…

The pre-survey will assess the teachers’ bias and expectations for the PLC. Midway through the study teachers will complete a check in (Appendix C) to aid in establishing themes within the PLC environment. At the conclusion of the school year a post-survey (Appendix B) searches to identify the teachers’ behaviors in the PLC and will look at how these behaviors affected instructional practices and student achievement. The pre-survey, final survey, and check point use similar questioning within…

My dependent variable will be their perception of their latest relationship. To measure this, I will be using a Guttmann scale. This will enable me to incorporate both a dichotomous scale and a Likert scale. A dichotomous scale is when a question has two possible responses. A Likert scale is a type of rating scale that measures how someone feels about a certain topic containing degrees of feeling. With multiple Likert questions in a survey Cronbach’s alpha helps measure its reliability.…

The children were provided meals and snacks from the General Clinical Research Center for a 12-week gluten- and casein-free diet. Each diet was made specifically for the child based on their food preferences. The results of this clinical trial showed no significant difference with Childhood Autism Rating Scale (CARS), Ecological Communication Orientation (ECO), and behavioral frequencies. There were also no significant differences in grouped data for urinary peptide levels of gluten and casein…

Injustice and the Importance of Being a Man in A Lesson Before Dying Justitia, the goddess of justice, is portrayed with a blindfold holding scales and a sword, but she, in applying her scales and sword, has never been colorblind in the U. S. 1[1] Ernest J. Gaines accuses the legal injustice against the black population through an innocent convict, Jefferson's death in A Lesson Before Dying. However, Gaines penetrates the fact that the legal injustice is rather a result than a…