Development and Verification of learning and development of children in kindergartens, day care centers, Centers for early childhood education and care.

2017 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 26381069
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Education
• Research Institution: Tokyo Gakugei University
• Principal Investigator: IWATATE Kyoko 東京学芸大学, 教育学部, 教授 (40185426)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): 樟本 千里 岡山県立大学, 保健福祉学部, 講師 (10413519) ; 西坂 小百合 共立女子大学, 家政学部, 准教授 (50442116) ; 岩立 志津夫 日本女子大学, 人間社会学部, 教授 (80137885)
• Project Period (FY): 2014-04-01 – 2018-03-31
• Keywords: 幼児 / 学びや発達 / 評価指標 / カリフォルニア / DRDP

Outline of Final Research Achievements

The purpose of this study is to develop the new assessment indexes of the learning and development of children in early childhood and to verify the validity and reliability of the indexes. We translated DRDP(2010, 2015), DRDP-K into Japanese and made an analysis of commonality and difference between DRDP and educational purposes and contents in the Course of Study on Japanese Kindergarten, etc. The results shows (1)the indexes and contents of DRDP are more concrete and visible behavioral indexes as opposed that those in Japanese course of study are more mixed especially with social and emotional aspects, (2)the number of DRDP is too large for Japanese practitioners and felt it in a burden, while practitioners got the new points of view and could make an assessment of children without their bias , (3)As we couldn’t find validity and reliability, we made an analysis the correlation between non-cognitive and cognitive skill. The results showed the significant correlation between them.

Free Research Field

幼児教育