Assessment and Evaluation in Education

1. ObservationGuides
Reported by:
Madelaine T. Ting
III-10 BS Psychology

2. Visual Perspective:
Focus and follow child's activities.

3. Auditory Perspective:
Listening to the noise level as it rises
and falls.

4. Learning

5. Child-child Interaction:
• Listen to the way - the child andthe content - in
which childrentalk to eachother. Listen for the
level of respectas wellas for the normalpushes
and pulls of childhood.Other new observers may
find it interesting to see the help children provide
eachother.

6. Teacher-child Interaction:
• The teacher (or guide) is a facilitator of the child's
autonomous learning process. She guides rather than
insists. She prepares the environment, gives the child the
tools to utilize the materials and then does whatever else
is necessary to help the child interact with the
environment without assistance. Sometimes this involves
direct encouragement, at other times indirect
appreciation, and even judiciousabsence.

7. Sociability:
 Watchthe ways in whichthe childrenoffer assistance
to one another- withthe materials and witheveryday
tasks - and the ways that they are directlysociable
within another.
 Observe the independence of the childrenas they do
for themselves in the classroom environment.
 Watchhow even the youngest childtakes
responsibility for his or her personal environment.

9. Source:
• Copyright © 2006 by Corwin Press. All
rights reserved. Reprinted from Planning
Classroom Management, 2nd edition, by
Karen Bosch. Thousand Oaks, CA: Corwin
Press, www.corwinpress.com.
Reproduction authorized only for the local
school site or nonprofit organization that
has purchased this book.