Author Question: What are three disadvantages or pitfalls of a Running Record? What will be an ideal ... (Read 93 times)

awywial · **on:** Sep 11, 2018

What are three disadvantages or pitfalls of a Running Record?

What will be an ideal response?

Question 2

What are three advantages or purposes of a Running Record?

What will be an ideal response?

stanleka1 · **Reply #1 on:** Sep 11, 2018

Answer to Question 1

ANSWER: The target child may feel the observers attention and change behavior, destroying the nature of the recording; it may not be a representative specimen of what normally occurs; the adult is focused on this intensive recording process and may not be available to supervise the rest of the classroom; the observer may tire because of the intensity of this type of recording process.

Answer to Question 2

ANSWER: It records a detailed segment of normally occurring behavior; it can be analyzed as documentation for a number of developmental areas; it can focus on one particular area of a classroom rather than a child to document what occurs there; it can be used for evaluation of a childs development and curriculum planning for that child.