Assessment of Social Competence, Adaptive Behaviors, and Approaches to Learning with Young Children. Working Paper Series

摘要

This paper focuses on research regarding the measurement of social competence, adaptive behaviors, and approaches to learning. Reviewed are the key variables and assessment instruments available for studying these three areas. The appendixes contain extensive lists and analyses of assessment instruments devised to study non-cognitive functioning in children. These lists extend well beyond the mandate to review the three areas noted above but give a good indication of the range of topics and variety of methods developed to better understand the social, affective, and intrapsychic functioning of young children. In this report, we will describe the results of our review of research regarding social competence, adaptive behaviors, and approaches to learning with special attention devoted to potential measures available for use by the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study (EeLS).