This brief, teacher-rated screening tool is designed to characterize a migrant student’s observable social skills in everyday school contexts. The Migrant Child Social Skills Assessment provides a structured way to note strengths and potential areas of concern related to peer interaction, classroom participation, and conflict management. It was developed by Frank M. Gresham and Stephen N. Elliott.
The measure includes 15 items and typically takes about 3 minutes to complete. Ratings are intended to reflect behavior observed in routine settings and can support documentation of current functioning and monitoring of change over time.
Results from the Migrant Child Social Skills Assessment should be interpreted cautiously and integrated with other sources of information (e.g., classroom observations, caregiver input, and academic/behavioral data), particularly when local norms or cut scores are not well established.