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Peer nomination procedure

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Description

A peer-report sociometric assessment developed by Moreno and adapted by Coie et al. in which children nominate liked and disliked peers to derive acceptance, rejection, social impact, social preference, and sociometric-status groups.

Components

  • Peer nomination procedure for assessing children's sociometric status: The peer nomination procedure, developed by Moreno and adapted by Coie et al. (1982), asks children to nominate up to three peers they like and three they dislike. Nominations are used to compute acceptance, rejection, social impact, and social preference, which in turn create the sociometric groups (popular, rejected, neglected, controversial, average). The review reports it is "a reliable and valid method for measuring children 's social position", used in 16 of the 25 reviewed studies, and recommends it remain part of future studies. (Femke van der Wilt et al. (2019))
  • Peer nomination (sociometric) methodology for assessing classroom citizenship behaviors and relationships: Peer nomination methods ask children to nominate classmates on behavioral and affective items, so that "children act as multiple observers of classmates' typical behaviors and of their relationships with others." Behavioral items describe interpersonal behavior (e.g., who helps others) and affective items capture relationships (e.g., whom classmates like most). The review proposes this approach as a systematic, quantitative complement to self-report measures in citizenship research, mapping classroom social dynamics into a social network. (Krijnen et al. (2024))

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Key Sources

  • Femke van der Wilt, Chiel van der Veen, Claudia van Kruistum, Bert van Oers (2019). Why Do Children Become Rejected by Their Peers? A Review of Studies into the Relationship Between Oral Communicative Competence and Sociometric Status in Childhood. Educational Psychology Review (2019) 31:699–724. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10648-019-09479-z
  • Krijnen, M. A., Wansink, B. G. J., van den Berg, Y. H. M., van Tartwijk, J., & Mainhard, T. (2024). Citizenship in the Elementary Classroom Through the Lens of Peer Relations. Educational Psychology Review. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10648-024-09870-5
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id peer-nomination-procedure
title Peer nomination procedure
description A peer-report sociometric assessment developed by Moreno and adapted by Coie et al.
status review
product_kind assessment
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