The interview was designed to calculate the children's views of school, ability to recall the exact event that lead to the time out, their detailed feelings about being in time out , and interpretation of time out in general.
Once the consent of the parents and teachers were acquired, observations began in the neighboring child care centers. Forty pairs of trained student observers observed a minimum of six hours in a 30-day period and recorded time-out procedures using an anecdotal format. Which included: what the child was doing that led to the placement in time out, adult instructions to the child in time out, locality of time out, child's conduct in time out, adult release of child from time out, the length of the time out incident. "Time out is defined as an occasion in which the child is removed from an activity or group for performing an act deemed unacceptable or undesirable by an adult, and spends time in a designated spot isolated from others at the request of the adult" ((Readdick & Chapman, 2000)).
Actions expected to lead to time out were noncompliance and aggression. Noncompliance explained as "refusal to initiate or complete a request made by an adult." (Readdick & Chapman, 2000) Physical aggression described as "the act of striking, slapping, kicking, pushing, biting, or pulling others, or throwing objects at others" (Readdick & Chapman, 2000); Verbal aggression defined as "aiming offensive words at others with the intent to harm another person."(Readdick & Chapman, 2000) When the child was released from time out, one researcher would come up .
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to that child and invite him or her to talk about being in time out. If the child was uninterested, their name was erased, and not included in this study. If the child wanted to talk about time out with the researchers, one would ask questions, and the other would record the answers. When they were done, the child was encouraged to join the class.
