The method of observing the student’s behavior in the educational environment

This paper aims to highlight the efficiency of using the method of observing student behavior in the educational environment. Observation is one of the most widely used research methods in the social sciences. The characteristics aimed at constructing the instrument were: accuracy, focus, duration of observation, awareness of the presence of the observer, the level of information of the subject. In order to observe the student’s behavior in the school environment, the observation grid with standardized answers was designed on the Likert scale (scale from 1 to 10), following the degree of expression of the described behavioral manifestations. The observation grid of the student’s behavior in the school environment aims at supervising 4 dimensions (each with 5 items: observable behaviors): interest in school activities, organization of activity / punctuality in the school environment, resistance to intellectual effort, socio-affective relationships. Following the application of the research tool, depending on the scores obtained, it is recommended the targeted psycho-pedagogical intervention at the level of the deficient dimension / behaviors, as well as the monitoring of the results through the periodic application