Centre for Longitudinal Studies, Institute of Education

Teaching students quantitative methods using resources from the British Birth Cohorts

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Measuring behaviour difficulties of children and teenagers

This document, RutterBehaviourQuestions.doc, summarises the questions that make up the Rutter Behaviour Scales (Rutter et al 1970), an established set of questions which combine to give an index of behaviour difficulties in the child (Rutter, 1967b, Rutter et al, 1970). Child Scale A is completed by parents, usually the mother and Child Scale B by teachers. It includes

a) Background to the Rutter Behaviour Scales

b) A table specifying the questions asked at each age, allowing users of the data to see which questions are consistently asked across sweeps and across cohorts.

c) The different answer categories used to answer the questions at each age and in each cohort.

d) Examples of how the questions were presented to the cohort members in

the questionnaires.