A Proposal for the Children's Group Composition by Using the Sociogram

Abstract

　More elementary students attend “after school care program” in Japan as the dual-income family becomes more common. We have developed an application in this research which supports the students and engaged teachers in an after school care program. The application treats data of children’s group composition with sociograms in the after school care program which are convenient than to treat commonly-used socio metric tests. The sociogram which has been proposed in this research shows sociality of a student by thinking of selected numbers of the student by other students. The purposes of this study are to develop an application by which changes in children's group structure and socialities are able to be easily observed and to assist staffs in the after school care program by the application. Our developed application has achieved to show group composition and sociality of children in the after school program and reduce daily workload of teachers by using one line daily work logs which generally sink into files contained in many document folders.