Classroom
Sociometrics
"Sociometrics
can work as a mental health barometer for a classroom, as well
as individual students." Sociograms
--Dr. Larry Sherman, Miami University Sociogram
In today's
world of student violence, it is more important than ever that
students who lack social skills are identified early for social
skill groups. Nomination sociometrics is an empirically
supported method of progress monitoring the social status of classrooms
and individual students. This method of measuring social
status has been used since the early 1900s. Walsh's Classroom
Sociometrics is a computer program that makes nomination sociometrics
take minutes of your time rather
than hours. To learn how to do nomination sociometrics without
using this computer program, Click
here to see a website provided by Dr. Sherman
dedicated to teaching his graduate and undergraduate students
how to construct a sociogram. See Sociometric Resources
above for more nomination sociometric resources. Sociometrics
may be used as progress monitoring data which is required when
school intervention teams utilize the problem solving process
to monitor social skill interventions. This as well as community
building activities can be directed at classrooms and individual
students who need it the most at your school. With this
program it will take 10-15 minutes to provide sociograms, scatter
charts, and bar graphs to help direct the intervention team or
yourself to the most appropriate remedial action.
Click here
to download a FREE demo
version of Walsh's Classroom Sociometrics. This will allow
you to use the program while you try it out to make sure it meets
your expectations and needs. Walsh's Classroom Sociometrics works
only on PCs (sorry, Mac users).
Several
college professors around the world use this program to encourage
their students to utilize sociometrics in the classroom.
This program does in minutes what once took hours to do by hand.
You can make it a fully functional version by purchasing a license
for $39.99. If you are unable to use a credit
card, email classroomsociometrics@yahoo.com.
