Child Observation Essay

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1.) Background The child being observed is a 7 year old girl, who is the fourth member in a family of five. Her family consists of her father, mother, 14 year old brother and a younger brother 18 months old. She attends primary school, currently in year 2 and academically thrives in the classroom, she has a small group of friends and attends before and after school care as well as vacation care. She is involved in after school sports activities playing football and also attends Church group on Sundays. She is highly active socially and fits into unfamiliar surroundings easily and the family maintain a busy lifestyle. Both parents work full time, while the father runs his own carpentry business, work can be unpredictable which does put a strain …show more content…

Observation will take place at the child’s home with another child and then with parents, out in public that allows interaction with different children, at a family event with a larger group of children and caregivers. These observations will be conducted at different times of the day to allow a variety of interactions and non-repetitive interactions, different times of the day can affect how tired the child is, whether the child interacts better in the morning first thing or the afternoon and how it affects her emotional mood. These different observation locations allow the child to be observed in different situations with one on one play, interactions with adults, interacting with groups of children in new environments and to see how well the child relates to other …show more content…

A formal recording technique used permits the observer to select an event, define the behaviours you wish to occur and wait for the event to happen in the observation setting. “ You should record the entire sequence of behaviour from beginning to end in as much detail as possible to provide a rich body of information to use in drawing inferences” (Warren R. Bentzen, 2009) pg. 155. Event sampling can be compatible with other recording methods, coding scheme, narrative description or a combination of both. Event sampling is not concerned with when the behaviour occurs or for how long the recording period is, its main focus is the specific behaviour that

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