This book is an important reference for everyone interested in child studies, including kindergarten teachers, psychological counselors, classroom teachers, special education professionals, and parents. It also aims to help students of the Faculty of Educational Sciences apply psychological tests to the children they work with and to write descriptive and quantitative reports about them. The book introduces educational counselors, special education professionals, and all those interested in this field to the curriculum and research methods in child study and the psychological scales that assist in diagnosis.

The book contains an introduction to growth, its stages, and principles, and covers research methods such as the correlational method, observation (its types and drawbacks), and Piaget's interview method. It also addresses the experimental or causal method, considered one of the most reliable research approaches, explaining its divisions and concepts like independent, dependent, and extraneous variables. To study the various aspects of a child's development, the book emphasizes using longitudinal, cross-sectional, and normative methods to track a child's physical, social, and mental life, as well as using sociometric scales to determine social standing. It then discusses intelligence scales by Binet, Wechsler, and Porteus Mazes, among others. The book also focuses on methods for evaluating child development and the process of writing reports for kindergarten children, including content and authorship. Finally, it includes an applied research project on children that incorporates child study scales.

• ISBN: 9789957160000
• Weight: 0.500 kg
• Dimensions: 17×24 cm
• Paper: White
• Pages: 243
• Year of Publication: 2004
• Binding: Hardcover