The Social Cognitive Evaluation Battery for Children with Autism: A New Tool for the Assessment of Cognitive and Social Development in Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders

Table 4

Subscale Internal Consistency for Behavior Observation Grids, internal consistency and intraclass correlation agreement for Developmental Level Scales.

Subscales	Internal consistency (𝑛=100)				Inter-rater reliability (𝑛=24)
	Behavior coding		Developmental coding		Developmental coding
	KR20	Number of items	Cronbach 𝛼	Number of items	Intraclass correlation agreement	CCI 95%
Socio-affective domain
Social interactions	.83	10	.80	9	.84	.68–1.00
Behavior regulation	.83	15	.74	8	.90	.79–1.00
Joint attention	.81	9	.87	10	.85	.75–.95
Expressive language	.91	11	.85	7	.94	.88–1,00
Comprehensive language	.85	8	.90	9	.84	.75–.93
Vocal imitation	.84	15	.84	6	.80	.68–.92
Gesture imitation	.75	12	.79	6	.89	.80–.98
Affective relation	.73	9	.80	12	.82	.70–.94
Emotional expression	.59	8	.73	11	.58	.38–.78
Cognitive domain
Self image	.85	18	.86	12	.76	.59–.93
Symbolic play	.74	7	.71	5	.89	.81–.97
Object-relation schemata	.67	6	.82	5	.77	.65–.89
Operational causality	.80	8	.51	6	.83	.68–.98
Means aims	.84	16	.80	9	.89	.79–.99
Spatial relations	.89	14	.93	8	.84	.75–.93
Object permanence	.94	19	.81	5	.81	.68–.94