Comparability of the Social Skills Rating System to the Social Skills Improvement System: Content and Psychometric Comparisons Across Elementary and Secondary Age Levels

School Psychology Quarterly

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 27-44

  Gresham, Frank M ^a   Elliott, Stephen N ^b   Vance, Michael J ^a   Cook, Clayton R ^c  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Comparability; Convergent validity; SSIS RS; SSRS

Indexed keywords

EID: 79952995748     PISSN: 10453830     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0022662     Document Type: Article

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