PEDIATRICS Vol. 40 No. 1 July 1967, pp. 46-54
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DESCRIPTIVE EVALUATIONS OF CHILD DEVELOPMENT AND OF DEVELOPMENTAL SETTINGS

Bettye M. Caldwell Ph.D1

1 College of Home Economics, Syracuse University, and Department of Pediatrics, Upstate Medical Center, State University of New York, Syracuse, New York

This paper has described and supported with research data what is essentially a philosophy of evaluation—one which suggests that the most important function of developmental evaluation is descriptive rather than diagnostic and as compressing a history rather than predicting a future. Behavioral evaluations are necessary to accomplish these other objectives; but, until assessment techniques are far more elegant than they are today, they should not be expected to accomplish them alone. Further, it has been suggested that naturalistic descriptions are as valuable and as necessary as structured ones. Finally, a plea has been made that more research attention be directed to the task of evaluating environments. A crude attempt to do this on our own part has carried some important empirical fuel to the theoretical fire which describes development as influenced by the milieu in which that development occurs.

Submitted on January 3, 1967
Accepted on January 16, 1967




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