title: A classroom rating scale for use with mentally handicapped children: a replication of the ADIECAS.
abstract: The Attention/Distraction: Inhibition/Excitation Classroom Assessment Scale (Evans, 1975; Evans & Hogg, 1984) was administered to 80 children with severe learning difficulties with the Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test (PPVT) and subscales of the British Ability Scales (BAS). Factor analysis replicated the Attention/Distraction scale but the Inhibition/Excitation scale split into a verbal component and the remaining items. A new factor named responsivity to consequences was identified. Attention/Distraction showed good concurrent validity with the BAS and PPVT. This study shows the robustness of the Attention/Distraction: Inhibition/Excitation Classroom Assessment Scale as a measure of individual differences in children with severe learning difficulties.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, Plymouth Polytechnic, Birmingham, UK.
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Strand
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Sturmey
authors.forename: J T
authors.initials: JT
authors.lastname: Newton
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D002648:Child; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008607:Intellectual Disability / Q000523:psychology*; D008297:Male; D011581:Psychological Tests; D015203:Reproducibility of Results