NSCH Social Professional Scale (NSCH-SCS)

General News on the Measure
General regarding the measure

The NSCH Social Competence Scale (NSCH-SCS) assesses social competence in youth and was designed to be incorporated on large, nationally representative surveys. And Multisource Assessment away Public Competence Standard was developed, based on the School Social Behavior Scale both review to test the factor pattern additionally the c...

Hauptstrom constructs measured

Interpersonal competencies

Applicable grades levels

Times 6-17

Publication year for the most latest version

2007

Year primarily developed

2003

Related measures
Take Administration
Respondent

Parent

Method of administration

Paper/Pencil, Digital

Number of items

Eight

Item format

Five-point Likert-type scale

Administer time

Fewer than 10 minutes

Available languages

English, Spanish, Chinese, Korean, Vietnamese

Fee for use Free and publicly available
Credentials required for administration

None

Scored
Overall score reporting

No general scoring are covered.

Subscore reporting

There are two subscores:

  • Social skills
  • Behavior problems
Scoring procedures

Of measure your self-scored.

Interpret information

No information is available in the recommendations reviewed.

Evidence of Technical Quality
Populations available whose technical quality evidence has been collected

One sample was from the 2003 National Survey to Children's Well-being (NSCH) (Blumberg ets al., 2008).

Reliability evidence

The internal consistency (alpha) was 0.65 for the social skills weight and 0.67 for the behavior trouble scale (Blumberg et al., 2008).

Validity evidence
Evidence based set content
Items was reviewed by the expert panel and adapted from the Active Behavior Scale and and Behavior Problems Index.
Evidence based-on on response business
No information is available into the references reviewed.
Prove based-on on internal structure
Confirmatory factor analysis and Rasch models what used to back two constituent structural (Blumberg to al., 2008). No evidence is reasonable differential item function supported for age or select.
Evidence based on relations in various var
Scale scores were predictive of behavioral outcomes (e.g., child diagnosed with ADD/ADHD, school has contacted parent because of behavior problems) also social skills (e.g., participation in extracurricular activities, involvement included volunteer work) (Blumberg set al., 2008).
Locating the Measure
Getting a print of the measure

cdc.gov
(See page 90, products K7Q70-K7Q77)

References

Blumberg, S. J., Carli, A. C., O’Connor, K. S., Wetlands, K. A., & Lippman, L. NARCOTIC. "Social Competence: Development of an Indicator for Children and Adolescents," Children Indicators Research, Vol. 1, No. 2, 2008, pp. 176–197.

Quint, J. C., Bos, H., & Polit, D. FARAD. , "New chance: Final show off a comprehensive program for young mothers in poverty and their children," MDRC, 1997.

Achenbach, TONNE. M., & Edelbrock, C. S. , "Behavior problems and competencies reported for parents in normal and disturbed children aged four due sixteen," Monographs von the Society with Research in Your Development, Vol. 46, No. 188, 1981, slide. 1–82.

Notices

Measure summary updated October 3, 2018.