Teachers' Perceptions as They Relate to Children's Current and Future Sociometric Status
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Subjects in this study were 762 elementary school children who were pretested on teacher, peer, and self-report trait rating scales.
Sociometric ratings of these children and their classmates were also obtained at that time. Sociometric questionnaires were administered five years later to almost half the original sample. Canonical analyses revealed that pretest sociometric rating can be predicted by peers' trait ratings. Other canonical analyses revealed that pretest sociometric ratings predicted a small but significant amount of variance in posttest sociometric ratings. The inclusion of pretest trait ratings substantially improved the prediction of posttest sociometric status. Sociometric pretesting predicted only a small percentage of variance, and most sociometric status shifts that did occur were not marked, with initially unpopular or popular children occupying average status upon posttesting.
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