促进学习的评价﹕观察及记录儿童的学习成果.PDF

Dr. Dora Ho The Hong Kong Institute of Education 1 • • ,  • ,  • • • To observe is to take notice, to watch attentively, to focus on one particular aspect of all of the massive stimulus in the environment Observation is an important tool that helps you to fill in the gap between theory and practice. Direct observation as an assessment method has four features: • Behavior is observed in natural setting • Behavior is recorded or coded as it occurs • Impartial , objectiveobservers record behavior • Inference by the observer (Ramsay, et al., 2002) • • • • • Understanding of the kinds of social relationship among children and among children and adults and how these can be facilitated in school • Awareness of the classroom environment, schedule and program, how well these are meeting the needs of children and staff, and how they might be improved • Greater insight into our own ways of responding to children and situations • • , (Feeney, 2001, p.107-112)