Frank Gresham

The purpose of this project is to develop, refine, and validate the Psychosocial and Educational Difficulties and Strengths Scales (PEDS) to evaluate student behavior from multiple sources (e.g., teachers, parents, students) and to produce results that accurately indicate how student behavior may vary across contexts. Collecting multiple informant ratings of children's psychosocial strengths and difficulties is a common practice during comprehensive special education evaluations. Discrepanci...

Assessment tools that measure individual student progress in social behavior must not only allow for frequent measurement, be brief and easy to administer, they must also be reliable and valid. Otherwise, changes in observed scores across time may not accurately reflect student progress, and, more importantly, may contribute to inaccurate decisions regarding students' response to intervention. Although a number of general purpose measures of student social behavior had been used for progress...