The Findings of Symptomatic Behaviour Screening Tool (Symbest) For Children of Age 3-4 years old

摘要

The study focused on developing a behaviour difficulties screening tool for early childhood education (ECE) educators to screen and identify symptomatic behaviours among children aged 3 to 4 years old in the ECE centres. This research is a design and development study based on the model of Richey& Klien (2007) with 3 phases that is (i) Need analysis, (ii) Design and Develop, and (iii) Testing Usability. The findings of the study are expected to empower teachers to screen and identify children with symptomatic behaviour for intervention and medical referrals. Data findings of phase (i) educators have stated that they need support like a screening tool to identify and understand children's behaviour to be typical or symptomatic to a disorder. Findings phase (ii) reports, four constructs of child development have reached the experts' consensus and numbered the ranked items in a sequence, and it was organised accordingly to represent the constructs of SymBest. Finally, in phase (iii), all the constructs and items of SymBest have reached the agreement of usability according to the perception of the expert participants.