Why do you want to measure?
Russian educator ushinski once said: "Attention is a door through which everything that has just entered people's hearts must pass."
I believe many parents have had this experience: when a child is asked to recite a text, although he has read it many times, he still remembers only a few sentences in the text and it is difficult to recite the whole text; For another example, only a few minutes after finishing homework, children begin to lose concentration-touching their heads, playing with pens, rummaging through things, drinking water and so on. In short, children just can't concentrate on Quan Yi, which makes many parents feel headache.
Attention is a basic cognitive ability, which runs through all behaviors. Attention must be accompanied in all psychological processes of learning. The quality of attention has a profound impact on learning efficiency, and it is the basis for children to know the objective world, acquire knowledge, develop intelligence and cultivate ability. Attention ability is closely related to intelligence and academic performance, and it is a necessary condition for mastering knowledge. Research shows that the higher the academic performance, the higher the attention score. Many children with learning difficulties are not mentally retarded, but have attention problems. But if the child's attention is not improved, it will have a certain impact on his life and study.
For example, children with inattention may be accompanied by bad behavior and emotions. If children need to do homework for a long time every day, and the quality of homework is poor, either a letter is missing here or a problem is miscalculated there, they will often be criticized and reprimanded by teachers and parents. Over time, children's self-esteem and self-confidence will be hurt. Often, before things are finished, negative emotions such as depression, pessimism and withdrawal begin to occur. Or some children simply "break the jar and fall" and give up on themselves. For another example, children who are inattentive will also affect interpersonal relationships. Children with inattention may be accompanied by emotional problems, and it is easy to have conflicts with people around them because of a little thing, thus affecting the relationship between peers, teachers and students, and parents.
Therefore, it is short-sighted and harmful to ignore the cultivation of children's attention and simply pursue the study of knowledge and skills.
High-quality attention includes attention span, attention stability, attention transfer and attention distribution. This evaluation is conducted from these four aspects. Through the assessment, parents and friends can better understand the quality of children's attention, so as to find the weak links of children's attention development, and then "prescribe the right medicine" for targeted intervention or training.
In addition, this assessment can also help enterprises, schools or training institutions to understand the level of children's attention development, thus providing direction and targeted advice and guidance for teachers' education, ensuring that children have high-quality attention, thus promoting all-round development.
Scale profile:
The Children's Attention Rating Scale (Parent Edition) (6- 13 years old) was developed by Mai Wei's evaluation and research team for nearly one year. The scale has good reliability and validity. If it has a certain predictive function, that is, children with poor attention level may have poor grades after a period of time without intervention, and there is a statistically significant correlation between them.
This scale is mainly used to evaluate the attention development level of children aged 6- 13. The scale consists of 47 questions, each of which is a multiple-choice question with three options-yes, uncertain andno. Parents or people who live with their children and know their children well will fill in the form strictly according to their children's situation in the past six months.
Scale evaluation project:
Attention breadth: refers to how many people can clearly grasp the number of attention objects at the same time. The ability to do things correctly and quickly. For example, people who pay attention to extensive reading will read faster. In addition, it also involves slowness and carelessness.
Stability of attention: refers to the long-term transience of attention to an object or activity. The longer the duration of attention, the higher the stability of attention, that is, the more you can "sit still." It involves two aspects: concentration and anti-interference ability.
Attention distribution: it means that when people engage in two or more activities at the same time, they can point their attention to different objects; Or it refers to the characteristics that psychological activities point to two or more different actions at the same time when engaging in certain activities. That is what we commonly call "dual use", "seeing six roads" and "listening to all directions". For example, students need to listen, take notes, think, and look at the teacher and the blackboard when attending classes.
Attention transfer: refers to the active transfer of attention from one object to another according to the requirements of the task. The shift of attention is a manifestation of a person's attention flexibility. For example, you can keep up with the teacher's rhythm when you attend classes, you can flexibly divert your attention according to the teacher's requirements, and you won't get stuck if you don't understand.
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