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Several decades of research clearly demonstrate that high-quality, developmentally
appropriate, early childhood programs produce short
and long-term positive effects on children’s cognitive and social development.
The maintenance of high quality education processes and
methodologies demand a rigor- ous process for improvement, guided
through observation, reflection and consequent action. Typically,
teachers will pay attention to the evolution of learning within the
child, namely, on how the child is feeling and acting when dealing
with a specific activity.
This information, obtained through a detailed and thorough observation
procedure, is based on mea- suring the child’s involvement.
In fact, research with the Leuven Involvement Scale has shown that
the levels of children’s involvement are a predictor of learning quality.
An involved child gets extremely fas- cinated and absorbed by
the activity he is performing. There are several indicators that can
be used to assess children involvement, such as concentration, energy,
complexity and creativity, facial expression and posture, persistence,
precision, reaction time, language and satisfaction.
Traditionally, the teacher will record the observation.
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Keywords
Head pose detection Quality control Preschool education
Citation
Mesquita, Cristina; Lopes, Rui Pedro (2015). Involvement measurement through head pose estimation. In Garrios-Simon, Fernando J... [et al.] (eds.) Strategies for teaching in the XXI century. Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Publishing. p. 129-143. ISBN 978-1-4438-7723-7