Abstract
The goal of this study is to investigate the assessments made by care providers of character depictions in young children's drawing activities. The drawing activities that occur in childcare facilities are guided by care providers' assessments of the children's works. Many care providers look for originality and creativity in the works of children, and some will negatively assess copying. There is also the possibility that they will negatively perceive characters that are copied from another person's work. Accordingly, a survey was administered to care providers working in kindergartens and other childcare facilities, asking them to compare their assessments of character drawings and of general drawings. As for the results, outcomes from care providers according to years of working experience were considered, and it was found that across all categories of experience, drawings of characters received lower scores, suggesting that different subjects of drawings affect care providers' assessment of children's work.
