Seeing Young Children : A Guide to Observing and Recording Behavior
ISBN: 9781418073787 | 1418073784
Edition: 6thFormat: Paperback
Publisher: Cengage Learning
Pub. Date: 1/9/2008
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Seeing Young Children is an extensive guide to observing and recording the behavior of children from birth, through age eight. General guidelines for observing children and how to interpret observations, the implementation of findings, and ongoing evaluation are included. Detailed discussions of nine recording techniques or instruments, and the advantages and disadvantages of each are covered. Observation exercises are found throughout to test skills. Specific by age group, each chapter provides readers with observation objectives, instructions as to procedure, and background information on many functional areas.
| Introduction | p. 3 |
| An Introduction to Growth and Development | p. 19 |
| General Guidelines for Observing Children | p. 55 |
| Methods, Behavior, Plans, and Contexts | p. 93 |
| An Introduction to Observation and Recording Methods | p. 101 |
| Narrative Descriptions | p. 109 |
| Time Sampling | p. 130 |
| Event Sampling | p. 154 |
| Diary Description | p. 166 |
| Anecdotal Records | p. 177 |
| Frequency Counts or Duration Records | p. 188 |
| Checklists and Rating Scales | p. 197 |
| Interpretation of Observations, Implementation of Findings, and Ongoing Evaluation | p. 230 |
| Observing the Newborn: Birth to One Month | p. 257 |
| Observing the Infant: 1 to 24 Months | p. 284 |
| Observing the Young Child: Ages Two through Five | p. 338 |
| The School-Age Years: The Six-Year-Old Child | p. 396 |
| The School-Age Years: The Seven- and Eight-Year-Old Child | p. 434 |
| Developmental Checklists | p. 465 |
| Social-Emotional Checklist | p. 471 |
| Areas for Notice in Observing an Individual Child | p. 473 |
| Emotional Dependency Behavior: Time Samples Procedure | p. 475 |
| Observation Record (Social Skills) | p. 477 |
| Observational Records | p. 478 |
| Summary of Piaget's First Two Stages of Cognitive Development | p. 480 |
| Havighurst's Developmental Tasks - Infancy through Middle-Childhood | p. 481 |
| Glossary | p. 482 |
| References | p. 493 |
| Annotated Bibliography | p. 498 |
| Index | p. 500 |
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