Abstract
The present study assesses the reliability and validity of the Behavior Objective Checklist (BOC) with child psychiatric patients. The BOC is a 137-item problem behavior checklist in which each item addresses a specific measurable problem behavior for consideration as an IEP short-term objective. The 27 participants were psychiatric day- or inpatients who attend preschool to sixth grade self-contained behavioral disorder classrooms in a residential program. Four certified teachers of the behaviorally disordered and four paraprofessionals also participated in the study. A percent agreement analysis indicated an average test-retest reliability of 87% and an average interrater reliability of 77%. A Pearson Product Moment Correlation was used to determine concurrent validity and yielded a correlation of .69 with another behavior problem checklist.
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