title: The Pupil Evaluation Inventory. A sociometric technique for assessing children's social behavior.
abstract: The Pupil Evaluation Inventory was developed to assess peer ratings of the behavior of male and female children in grades one through nine. Three homogeneous and stable factors emerged from a factor analyss: Aggression, Withdrawal and Likeability. High interrater agreement between male and female raters, stability of factorial structure, high internal consistency, and moderate concurrent validity were found across sex and grade levels. Test-retest reliability was high for a separate sample of third and sixth graders. There was a tendency for higher internal consistency and teacher-peer correlations for the Aggression factor.
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000374:Aggression; D002648:Child; D002652:Child Behavior; D005069:Evaluation Studies as Topic; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010379:Peer Group; D012647:Self-Assessment; D012917:Social Adjustment; D012919:Social Behavior; D012928:Social Desirability; D012934:Social Isolation; D012963:Sociometric Techniques; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires