A consecutive study of the behavior of children in nursery school

This study gives the activities of two groups of preschool children during the morning session of a nursery school. Purpose: the purpose was 1) to perfect a reliable technique for measuring the behavior of nursery school children; 2) to record and analyze the behavior of the entire group of children enrolled at the Virginia Polytechnic Institute in the winter quarter of 1943; 3) to compare the behavior of five of the nursery school children in 1942 with their behavior in 1943. Subjects: Fourteen children of preschool age enrolled at the Virginia Polytechnic Institute during the winter quarter of 1942 and the winter quarter of 1943, were subjects. The behavior of five of these children was studied during both of these periods. Methods, definitions, and procedure. The observational methods and definitions of behavior used by Neidengard (6) in 1942 were followed in this study. Two observers, who previous to the study had achieved percentage of agreement, recorded for five minutes at a time the behavior of a single child, rotating observations from one child to another until three hours had been secured for each of ten children. This material was studied by the analysis of variance method. The data for the five children in 1942 was taken from Neidengard’s original material.

Name thesis:degree_name

M.S.

Level thesis:degree_level

masters

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Family Life

Department dc:contributor.department

Family Life

Grantor dc:publisher

Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College and Polytechnic Institute

Year dc:date.issued

1943

Author dc:creator

• Warriner, Anne Harr

Statement dc:rights

• In Copyright

Licence dc:rights.uri

• http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/

Language dc:language.iso

en

Handle dc:identifier.uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10919/114659

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:vtechworks.lib.vt.edu:10919/114659