12-MONTH STABILITY OF DISRUPTIVE CLASSROOM-BEHAVIOR AS MEASURED BY THE SUTTER-EYBERG STUDENT BEHAVIOR INVENTORY

Presents data on the stability of the Sutter-Eyberg Student Behavior I nventory (SESBI), a teacher rating scale of disruptive behavior. SESBI s were first completed on 874 children in kindergarten through fifth g rade and then I year later on the same children. SESBI scores showed a bsolute, relative, individual, and structural stability. Results also indicated that the SESBI measures four dimensions of disruptive behavi or (i.e., overt aggression toward others, emotional-oppositional behav ior, attentional difficulties, and covert disruptive behavior). In add ition, the variance associated with systematic differences among stude nts was substantially larger than the systematic variance associated w ith teachers, indicating that the SESBI is measuring meaningful differ ences in students' behavior rather than simply differences among teach ers in their use of the scale.