Angela Kulcsar shows how to score turn-taking with two measures: frequency, counted by tallying independent exchanges, and duration, using a 3-second timer to see if a child hands over an item without prompting. Higher scores go to kids who pass the turn quickly and independently.
So let's say we are using this rubric to track turn-taking. So two things we want to note is that here we are looking at how long the child is waiting to give a turn to a peer, and then we're looking for multiple exchanges. So we want to add in a little bit of frequency data and duration data within these two components. So let's start with this one: engages in multiple exchanges. So I would keep this nearby or have access to a click counter, and I would track how many independent exchanges the child has. I might even just down here, to be honest, just tally every time the child has an independent exchange, tally it, and then I'm going to know, okay, great, this one is the relevant one because we had 5 independent exchanges. And then I'm going to look at this 3 seconds. Now we don't really need a timer for something as short as 3 seconds, but we want to be aware that when it is the child's turn to give a peer a turn with the item, we want to count in our head 3 seconds, and then we'll know how to give this score. If they require some type of prompt for more or have to wait more than 3 seconds, then we're going to want to score here versus if it's within 3 seconds, we're going to go here. There.
