ABSTRACT
While experiments were being made with the Social and Emotional Development Scales, a more practical rating chart was devised for the use of teachers and other members of the nursery school staff. There were three facts necessary to be in mind while in making the character chart. First, the chart would need to utilize expressions that would be readily understood by the teachers and would mean the same to all. Secondly, persons unused to making scientific observations of people tend to form and give opinions rather than to see and describe facts of behaviour; and thirdly, the statements of these persons are usually coloured by moral and social evaluation. The average scores on the complete Character Chart were computed for the boys and girls separately. There was found to be a fair degree of correlation between the average scores for all the children on the complete Character Rating Chart and on the Social Development Scale.
