Product Description

This best-selling book has been completely revised to provide a fully up-to-date guide to observation and assessment techniques. Now in full-colour and packed with even more examples, photographs and diagrams, this is the only book students will need to build the skills required by the professional child-care practitioner.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1687 in Books
• Published on: 2004-05-04
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 192 pages

Synopsis
This guide provides clear coverage of a range of observation techniques, their strengths and weaknesses, and how the results can be used. It now covers the observation of babies and primary school aged children. Observation examples have been re-designed to make them easier to read. It also covers the child observation components of all major child-care courses and includes a matching grid to show how the book links to different child-care qualifications.

Customer Reviews

handy little book!
this book is brilliant, it really helped me when i was doing my childcare course. it has the stages of each area of development for each age, and is really helpful.

Observation and assessment book
This book is really good.
i had to do 4 observations on babies and the book really helped me.
it such value for money, the wording is easy to understand.
it is a brilliant book.
best buy.

it is brilliant and it is very helpful for college
the book gives you ideas on how to observe children in great detail and is helpful to know how to write up observations and is very good for my course in child care