Social Skills Improvement System Rating Scales (and SEL Edition).
SSIS
- What it measures
- Child/adolescent social skills (Communication, Cooperation, Assertion, Responsibility, Empathy, Engagement, Self-Control), problem behaviors (Internalizing, Externalizing, Bullying, Hyperactivity/Inattention, Autism Spectrum), and academic competence
- Length and format
- ~75-83 per rating form (teacher/parent/student). 4-point frequency + importance ratings (informant/observer report)
- Language versions
- Spanish parent and student forms; some additional adaptations
- Normative data
- No normative data held in our reference library for this instrument. That is a statement about our library, not about the published literature.
- Licence
- copyrighted - commercial
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- Reference
- Gresham, F. M., & Elliott, S. N. (2008). Social Skills Improvement System Rating Scales. Minneapolis: NCS Pearson. (https://www.pearsonassessments.com)
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