Children’s Peer Status in School Settings

Abstract

Peer nomination and peer rating procedures are reviewed with regard to their relevance to assessing children’s social acceptance and social status in school settings. Social acceptance is the child’s actual liking by other children, whereas social status is the child’s comparative social standing or friendship with classmates. Peer nomination sociometric techniques are more appropriate for measuring social acceptance in children, whereas peer nomination techniques are more suited to assessing children’s social status. The strengths, limitations and potential applications of peer nomination and peer rating sociometric methods are discussed. A new method of capitalizing on the relative strengths of both peer rating and peer nomination procedures is presented.

Electrochemical Hydrogen Charging of Duplex Stainless Steel

“…Austenite is characterized by a high hydrogen solubility together with a low hydrogen diffusivity, whereas ferrite shows a low hydrogen solubility and a high hydrogen diffusivity. 4 Recently, the HE sensitivity of BCC steel types was already the subject of multiple studies [5][6][7] and it is generally accepted that diffusible hydrogen is mainly responsible for the obtained degree of HE. 8 Apart from the amount of diffusible hydrogen, the hydrogen diffusion coefficient also was confirmed to play a determinant role.…”

Direct assessment of children’s social-emotional comprehension.

“…Examples include behavior rafing scales (e.g.. Social Skills Intervenrion System; Gresham & Elliott, 2008), behavioral observations (e.g.. Peer Social Behavior Code; Walker & Severson, 1992), peer nominations (Chan & Mpofu, 2001;Moreno, 1933), and self-report (e.g.. Trait Emotional Intelligence Questionnaire-Child Form; Mavroveli, Petrides, Shove, & Whitehead, 2008).…”