Seeing Young Children: A Guide to Observing and Recording Behavior

ISBN-10: 0827376650
ISBN-13: 9780827376656
Series: Seeing Young Children
Pages: 376
Language: English
Published: 1997
Publisher: Delmar Publishers
Author: Warren R. Bentzen

Description

This innovative text is written to enable any individual to learn to observe and record young children's behavior effectively and accurately. The text provides a significant amount of information on theories of development and related issues as well as providing a lengthy discussion on recording techniques such as: the narrative description, time sampling, event sampling, the diary description, anecdotal records, frequency counts and duration records, and checklists. Seeing Young Children provides the essential guidelines for observing young children. This text covers topics that range from the steps one must take and the factors that must be considered even before entering the observation setting, professional ethics and confidentiality, factors that affect observation, categories of observation errors, and the dynamics of group observation, among others.