Seeing Young Children: A Guide to Observing and Recording Behavior - Softcover

Bentzen, Warren R.

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9780827376656: Seeing Young Children: A Guide to Observing and Recording Behavior

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0827376650 ISBN 13: 9780827376656

Publisher: Delmar Cengage Learning, 1996

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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.

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Review:

"The 6th edition continues to be solid in content regarding using systematic observation to understand and evaluate children's behavior and learning. I consider the included tables as the continued strength of the book. These tables describe milestones in child development in all domains. The tables are not only informative themselves, but they are very appropriate in the Overview part to fit the "guide" nature of the book." - Wenju Shen Ed.D, Valdosta State University, Georgia

"I believe that the 6th edition has new material that will be helpful. When I teach this course for the spring semester 2007, I plan to implement the Florence case studies and the practical exercises. Further, the in-depth discussions on the observation methods are useful for focus point study with students when needed." - Beverlyn Cain, Ed.D, Elizabeth City State University, North Carolina

"I really like the way that Bentzen has added more examples of observations within each chapter and how he has made more comparisons across methods in each chapter as well. I also like the addition of "Florence's thinking" throughout various chapters." - Tisha Bennett Sanders, Ed.D., Vanderbilt University, Tennessee

Synopsis:

Shows students in childhood education and child care, and others who plan to work with children, how to observe, record, analyze, and evaluate the motor, cognitive, and social behavior of children from infancy through eight years of age. Overviews developmental theories and general guidelines for observing children, and details observation methods

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