The Assessment of Children's Performance at Child Care Centre

The study aims to examine children's performance through their behaviour and the relationship between children's performance and children's profile at child care centre. Data were collected through 43 children using questionnaires filled by teachers who supervise children aged between 2 - 4 years at three child care centre in Shah Alam, Selangor. Fifty-two variables which were generated from children's performance that include three behavioural categories (movement, interaction and attention) have been analyzed. The result indicated only three out of fifty-two children's behavioural elements have high performance level which were happy to go home, physical activity, and happy to watch television. They scored > 0.75 for Cronbach's alphas coefficient which indicated with high level of internal consistency.