CFD 1230 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Central Tendency

• School: UCM
• Department: Child and Family Development
• Course: CFD 1230
• Professor: Dr Rolland

Document Summary

Checklist: is a register of behaviors, skills, or characteristics that the observer marks off if they are present. Useful checkless have: clear items, leave a little room for personal interpretation. Are primarily used to assess the current characteristics of an observational subject and to track changes in these characteristics overtime: child, teacher, curriculum, environment. Are constructed to assess children"s or teachers: skills, behaviors, the specific characteristics of programs and environments. Rating scales: are observational instrument used to assess the quality of a particular trait, characteristic or attribute with assessment usually based on predetermine criteria. When using a rating scale, the observer is asked to make an evaluation of the listed characteristics by assessing a value to each along a continuum. Are used to evaluate: children, teachers, environment, programs. Which investigates what proceeds (that anecdotes) and what follows (the consequences) and event.