Data Collection

• Beginning on the first day of school, children are observed for 6 ½ hours daily.
  
  

• Researchers, fitted with Tablet PCs, observe children for 10-second intervals, utilizing randomized coding procedures to best capture the target child’s
  
• Behavioral State (i.e., solitary, parallel, social, teacher-oriented)
  
  
• Task (i.e., reading, riding bikes, coloring, talking)
  
  
• Affect (i.e., neutral, positive, negative)


• Social peers’ affect


• Bid exchanges (i.e., accept, counterbid, reject, ignore)


• Physical location (i.e., x,y coordinates embedded within to-scale maps of the playground and classrooms, combined with a z coordinate representing time)

• For the fall 2006 semester (n=19 weeks),there were 10,374 total observations (μ per child=130); 10.7% of all observations were Solitary, 2.1% were Parallel, 36.4% were Social, and 50.8% were Teacher-Oriented
  
  

• For the spring 2007semester (n=19 weeks), there were 16,441 total observations (μ per child=211); 32.9% of all observations were Solitary, 11.8% were Parallel, 28.6% were Social, and 26.8% were Teacher-Oriented
  
  

• For the fall 2007semester (n=18 weeks), there were 20,809 total observations (μ per child=274); 36.9% of all observations were Solitary, 7.5% were Parallel, 26.1% were Social, and 29.5% were Teacher-Oriented