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. / M.S.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:VTETD/oai:vtechworks.lib.vt.edu:10919/114659 |
| Date | January 1943 |
| Creators | Warriner, Anne Harr |
| Contributors | Family Life |
| Publisher | Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College and Polytechnic Institute |
| Source Sets | Virginia Tech Theses and Dissertation |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Thesis, Text |
| Format | [6], 57 leaves, application/pdf, application/pdf |
| Rights | In Copyright, http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ |
| Relation | OCLC# 25361870 |
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