Do TABS Scores Act as One Would Expect?
Examination of TABS raw scores indicate that the subtest and total scores act as expected. First, given the nature of the behavior sampled, one should expect highly skewed distributions. Most children should earn scores of 0 or 1, with few children earning high scores. Indeed, in the sample of children who have not been identified as having disabilities, the distributions of TABS TRI scores and subtest scores are highly skewed. Second, we would expect no relationship between TABS scores and chronological age, The behaviors sampled by TABS are not developmental, they are aberrant. We would not expect children to mature out of these behavior problems, although the problems can be treated with intervention. TABS scores are indeed unrelated to age. For that reason, separate norm tables are not provided for children of different ages. Third, we would not expect a relationship between sex and aberrant behavior in children without disabilities. We found no differences in TABS scores between b
