Becoming a Brilliant Star
Holistic Assessment

Informal Assessments for Affective/Emotional Development

Prepared by: W. Huitt
Last revised: September 2008

Infancy/Toddler

Early Childhood

• Emotional Understanding

  • Gottman, J. (1997). Raising an emotionally intelligent child. New York: Simon & Schuster.
    Educators (including parents) can help children discern emotions by providing labels for different feelings that the children might have. This process of labeling emotions for children can also help in the child’s development of empathy.  For example, if you notice a child is feeling down and you say, “How are you feeling?,” a child should be able to give a label to the sensation and cognitive interpretation.

• Emotional Regulation
   

Middle & Later Childhood

Early Adolescence

Later Adolescence & Adult

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