Strengthening School Connectedness to Increase Student Success
Category: Student Well-Being
Instrument Overview
Play Interaction is an indication of children’s play strengths and includes such behaviors as comforting and helping other children, showing creativity in play, and encouraging others to join play. Play Disruption describes aggressive, antisocial behaviors that interfere with on-going peer play interactions. Play Disconnection reflects withdrawn behavior and nonparticipation in peer play. "Play is an important vehicle for children’s social, emotional, and cognitive development, as well as a reflection of their development” (Bredekamp & Copple, 1997 p. 6). Derives information on young children’s social competence, in context (Fantuzzo, Sutton‐Smith, Coolahan, Manz, Canning, & Debnam, 1995; McWayne, Sekino, Hampton, & Fantuzzo, 2002).
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Organization
Topic
Student Well-Being Category
American Institutes for Research® partnered with the Annenberg Institute at Brown University to collect instruments related to student well-being.
Content
Grades
< 3 Years,
Pre-Kindergarten
Keywords
Self‐Management ; Relationship Skills ; Play Interaction ; Play Disruption ; Play Disconnection
Respondent
Teacher,
Parent
Administration Information
Length
15 minutes
Access and Use
Developer
Penn Early Childhood and Family Research Center
Setting
Classroom
