การพัฒนาเครื่องมือประเมินพัฒนาการด้านอารมณ์สำหรับวัยเด็กตอนต้น

Abstract

          The purpose of this research is to study the most suitable face expression pictorial sets for early childhood and then modify the existed assessment tool for emotional development in early childhood accordingly. The sample group of this research is 175 children from age 3-6. The sample group did eight sets of tests from set A to set H. Each set contained six face expression pictures portraying six basic emotions; happy, sad, angry, shocked, scared and doubt. After that, t-test was used to compare the discrimination of each face expression pictorial set.  

From the research result, every face expression pictorial set has discrimination at a significance level of .05. The set that got the highest Cronbach's reliability coefficient alpha is set H which has the highest reliability coefficient in the receptive assessment among the sample groups age 3-4 and 5-6 and has the highest reliability coefficient in the expressive assessment in sample groups age 3-4, 4-5, 5-6 and the total group. According to the research result, the researcher chose to use set H to modify the existed developmental assessment tool for early childhood.