Measurement

Forbes-Jones, E. L. & Cowen, E. L. (2001). Sarason’s context of productive learning: Towards the development of a measure to assess teacher goals. Journal of Community Psychology, 29(4), 381-390.

Pigott, R. L., & Cowen, E. L. (2000). Teacher race, child race, racial congruence and teacher ratings of children’s school adjustment. Journal of School Psychology, 38.

 Crean, H. & Hightower, A.D. (May 1998). Concurrent Validity of the Teacher-Child Rating Scale and the Walker-McConnell Scale of Social Competence and School Adjustment within the Primary Intervention Program. Children’s Institute Technical Report T98-515.2.

Montes, G., Hightower, A.D., Lotyczewski, B.S., & MacGowan, A. (October 1997). The Predictive Validity of the 1992 Kindergarten Screening at the Rochester City School District. Children’s Institute Technical Report T97-502.2.

Cowen, E. L., Work, W. C., Hightower, A. D., Wyman, P. A., Parker, G. R., & Lotyczewski, B. S. (1991). Toward the development of a measure of perceived self-efficacy in children. Journal of Clinical Child Psychology, 20, 169-178.

Fantuzzo, J. W., Rohrbeck, C. A., & Hightower, A. D. (1989). A teacher assessment of self-controlling skills and their relationship to self-control and adjustment ratings.Journal of School Psychology, 17, 35-45.

Hightower, A. D. (1988). Review of Cognitive Abilities Scale. In J. V. Mitchell (Ed.), The Tenth Mental Measurements Yearbook. Lincoln, Nebraska: Buros Institute of Mental Measurements.

Hightower, A. D. (1988). Review of Developmental Profile II. In J. V. Mitchell (Ed.), The Tenth Mental Measurements Yearbook. Lincoln, Nebraska: Buros Institute of Mental Measurements.

McKim, B. J., & Cowen, E. L. (1988). A brief parent rating scale for assessing young children’s adjustment. Special Services in the Schools, 4, 55-70.

Hightower, A. D., Cowen, E. L., Spinell, A. P., Lotyczewski, B. S., Guare, J., C., Rohrbeck, C. A., & Brown, L. P. (1987). The Child Rating Scale: The development and psychometric refinement of a socioemotional self-rating scale for young school children. School Psychology Review, 16, 239-255.

Weissberg, R. P., Cowen, E. L., Lotyczewski, B. S., Boike, M. F., Orara, N. A., Stalonas, P. M., Sterling, S. S., & Gesten, E. L. (1987). Teacher ratings of children’s problem and competence behaviors: Normative and parametric characteristics. American Journal of Community Psychology, 15, 387-401.

Work, W. C., Hightower, A. D., Fantuzzo, J. P., & Rohrbeck, C. A. (1987). Replication and extension of the Teacher Self-Control Rating Scale. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 55, 109-110.

Hightower, A. D., Work, W. C., Cowen, E. L., Lotyczewski, B. S., Spinell, A. P., Guare, J. C., & Rohrbeck, C. A. (1986). The Teacher-Child Rating Scale: A brief objective measure of elementary children’s school problem behaviors and competencies. School Psychology Review, 15, 393-409.

McKim, B. (1985). A multiperspective assessment of the behavior and adjustment of urban and suburban primary grade children. Unpublished Ph.D. dissertation, University of Rochester.