Behavioral Assessment In Schools

Abstract

The assessment of social and emotional functioning in the schools is needed for purposes of classification, intervention development, and measurement of outcomes. Procedures for completing these evaluations, as well as the relative strengths and weaknesses of the techniques, are described in this article. The descriptions are organized by purpose, beginning with techniques for problem identification and followed by the application of these techniques to measuring outcomes. Legal, ethical, and cultural issues as they relate to these procedures are described at the end