Silja Saarento, Aaron J Boulton, Christina Salmivalli
Reducing bullying and victimization: student- and classroom-level mechanisms of change
Journal of abnormal child psychology
evaluating schoolaged patient particularly issues attention deficit disorder learning disabilities healthcare providers encouraged appraise childrens school performance although clinicians seek teachers comments recent research suggests teachers appraisals limited value consequence healthcare providers need brief methods functional busy primary care clinics detecting school problems wellvisits also include services anticipatory guidance safety injury counseling would helpful detection tools facilitate delivery one aspect wellchild care study undertaken develop brief method evaluating school performance elementaryage children test accuracy identifying children reading academic problems using common safety signs test stimuli tool also serve springboard injury prevention counseling data drawn standardization validation data individually administered widerange diagnostic achievement test using geographically diverse nationally representative sample 934 children 5 13 years age children administered comprehensive inventory basic skillsrevised cibsr includes among 10 subtests 57item measure safety word recognition data collected previously administered measures academics intelligence fortyone children administered measure twice assess interrater reliability logistic regression analyses deployed using childrens performance nine subtests cibsr grouping variable predictors recognition 57 safety wordsphrases 22 safety signs eg keep trespassing danger significant predictors overall academic performance additional seven safety words added due ecological significance eg high voltage beware dog poison etc receiver operating characteristic used determine cut scores based childrens ages relation overall academic performance cut scores increased age produced sensitivity 78 range 7388 specificity 84 range 7787 academic performance 25th percentilethe point children typically fail benefit group instruction become eligible remedial reading programs title children performance cut scores 11 times likely retained grade five times likely receive teacher rating average children performing cut scores nevertheless 72 children poor performance receiving special education title services interrater reliability coefficients high ranged 64 98 extrapolating administration times data cibsr whole suggests reduced safety words measure takes 3 4 minutes administer score new measure called safety word inventory literacy screener swils consists 29 words takes little time administer score high degree sensitivity specificity academic deficits use swils primary care enable clinicians provide focused safety counseling also screening school problems