CRS (Child Rating Scale)
Developer: Hightower, Cowen, Spinell, Lotyczewski, Guare, Rohrbeck, & Brown | Year: 1987.0
Overview
The Child Rating Scale (CRS) is used as a screening measure to rate a child’s problem behaviors. It also exists as a parent rating form (P-CRS) and teacher rating form (T-CRS).
Key Details
Grade Level
Assessment Type
Domains Assessed
Respondent
Method
Cost
Fee for Service
Time per Student
15-20 minutes
Items
24-39 items
Item Format
Rating
Approach
Risk
Populations
Over 2,000 1st-6th grade children in five samples from urban and suburban schools in the Rochester, NY area.
Scoring
Subscale Scores
Rule Compliance/Acting Out
Anxiety/Withdrawal
Peer Social Skills
Scoring Procedures
Self-Scored
Interpretive Information
Standardized (Nationally Representative Sample)
Psychometric Properties
Reliability
Cronbach's alpha was calculated for each grade level in each sample. Alpha estimates ranted from 0.36 to 0.83 (Hightower et al, 1987). 4 and 10 week test-retest reliabilities were also estimated for several samples, and range from 0.21 to 0.86.
Validity
Pilot items were adapted from existing teachera nd peer rating scales that measured parallel constructs (Hightower et al, 1987).
Exploratory Factor analysis was used to find support for four distinct scales.
CRS scale scores correlated with teacher and parent ratings in the expected directions.CRS scores correlated significantly with STAIC (State-Trait Anxiety Inventory for Children) scores (Spielberger, 1973). CRS scores were predictive of academic performance, showing htat children with less anxiety and who acted out less tended to perform better academically.
References
Primary Citation
Hightower, A. D. (1986). The teacher‐child rating scale: A brief objective measure of elementary children’s school problem behaviors and competencies. School Psychology Review, 15, 393‐409.
Hightower, A. D., Cowen, E. L., Spinell, A. P., & Lotyczewski, B. S. (1987). The Child Rating Scale: The development of a socioemotional self‐rating scale for elementary school children. School Psychology Review, 16, 239‐255.
Additional Citations
Child Rating Scale (CRS) | RAND