Abstract

The psychological evaluation of children needs a comprehensive consideration of children's self-reports and ratings of the parents and teacher. This study aims to develop the Korean Personality Rating Scale for Children-Teacher Form(KPRC-TF) and test the fundamental reliability and validity. Class teachers who had more than 3 years elementary school services career (N=186) rated the teacher rating form items for 1,399 fourth-sixth grade elementary schoolers. The split-half reliability and internal consistency of the scales, except ICN scale, ranged .78～.94, the medians of split-half reliability and internal consistency were .85, .86, respectively. Compared with the coefficients of children report form and parents rating form, the coefficients of split-half reliability and internal consistency of the teacher rating form were high overall, except SOM scale. 17 teachers rated 113 students twice at 4-week intervals to test the test-retest reliability. The test-retest reliability, except ICN scale, were ranged .75～.91. The median (.81) was high. The test-retest reliability of VDL, DLQ, HPR scale score were higher than other scales' reliability which showed nearly similar score, compared with rating form for children. To test the reliability and convergent and discriminant validity of 12 scales of KPRC-TF, sample were divided into 11 small samples. According to the correlation between KPRC-TF scales and various validity indices, the correlation were positively high with the indices measuring the original constructs which each scales proposed to measure. Contrary, there were negatively high correlation between the scales and indices which measure the contrast concepts. Finally, the results were compared with parents rating form and children report form and the implications and limitations of the study were discussed.