19 empirically-derived risk and protective factors for conduct problems. This study tests the
inter-rater reliability of the five-point rating scale used to assess the 19 factors in ESTER-
assessment on 30 institutionalized girls and their file information. Exact agreement between
raters varied from 38 to 72 percent on the 19 individual factors, a result much better than
chance. Intra-class correlations of the two independent raters on the majority of the 19 …