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

Bentzen, Warren R

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1418073784 ISBN 13: 9781418073787

Publisher: Cengage Learning, 2008

Synopsis

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.

About this title

About the Author:

Warren Bentzen is a retired Associate Professor from Plattsburgh State University College of New York.

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

About this edition

• Publisher: Cengage Learning
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 1418073784
• ISBN 13: 9781418073787
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 6
• Number of pages: 528