Abstract
122 parents and 18 teachers rated Head Start children on the preschool version of the Behavioral Assessment System for Children. Parents tended to rate their children as having greater problem scores than did their teacher, but both ratings, when compared to general norms, were within normal limits. Low to moderate correlations were found for the same scales on Parent and Teacher forms. Teachers rated children in the center program as having fewer problems than their home-based peers, while parents evaluated center children as having better adaptive behavior than children in the home-based program. Boys had more clinical problems than girls, while girls were rated as showing more adaptive behavior than boys. The usefulness and need for further research on this assessment are mentioned.
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