Observation
Which of the 5 W's of observation is present:
The children will be stacking with wooden blocks and have animal figurines
What
Which step of the cycle:
We are asking the parents to send their child to daycare wearing yellow clothing on Friday
Planning
Which tool can be used to track behavior patterns in different situations to see how often they occur?
Frequency chart
Titus stands by the table and has his gaze fixed on the puzzle that Chloe is putting together. Titus does not touch the puzzle but claps his hands when Chloe puts the last piece.
What type of play is Titus engaged in?
Onlooker
The educator asks the children "who had a great weekend?"
Most of the children shout out "me!" and the educator assumes the entire group had a good weekend
Which form of bias is present?
Central tendency error
Which of the 5 W's:
We want to observe the children's hand-eye coordination in the cognitive domain
why
We sit with the children and read them a story
Educational action
Which tool is used to track developmental milestones in different domains in order to note a child's abilities
Checklist
Pia has a ball and throws it against the wall. She sees it bounce and roll back to her. She throws it again and again at different spots on the wall, tracking which direction the ball bounces before picking it back up.
What type of play is Pia engaged in?
Solitary
The educator is filling in Chen's daily agenda. Even though he was hitting his peers in the morning, the educator writes that he had a good day because she knows he is usually very calm.
Leniency error
Objective or Subjective:
Margot loves to splash in the water
Subjective
The educator thinks about which parts of his activity were successful and unsuccessful.
Reflection
Which tool recounts an event that was observed by writing a description of what happened like a short story
Anecdotal record
The children are playing with a grocery store setup in the dramatic area. Vishal is picking out play food to put in their grocery store and counting the items. Anthony is sitting at a table pretending to bake a birthday cake. Anthony asks Vishal for some eggs. Vishal hands a few eggs to Anthony and asks what he is making.
What type of play are the children engaged in?
Associative
Ellie is crying and pointing across the yard at another child, Victor. The educator assumes that Victor is responsible for Ellie crying.
Logical error
Objective or Subjective:
Linus is a sleepy child
Subjective
The educator uses a frequency chart to see how many time children play with different toys around the class.
Observation
What does ABC stand for?
antecedent
behavior
consequence
Three children decide to put on a puppet show for the class. They each take a puppet and agree to tell the story of "The Three Little Pigs"
Which type of play are the children showing?
cooperative
Ellie is crying and Emmanuel is playing nearby.
The educator assumes Emmanuel is at fault because he is known to upset his peers.
Which form of bias is present?
Severity
Objective or Subjective:
Maria takes the block with her left hand and transfers it to her right hand then tosses it into the bin.
Objective
Name the four steps of the educational intervention cycle in order.
Observation
Planning/organizing
Educational action
Reflection
What do we typically write when collecting a work sample?
context: who/when
description: of child's actions, statements, process, etc.
Vicky is lying in the grass looking at the wind as it passes through the trees. She occasionally moves her hands to "pinch" the clouds or to make random shapes.
Which type of play is present?
unoccupied
To enhance reliability, we use _________ ___________ to specify the behavior we are looking for
operational definition