Case Study on a Child’s Play Running Record
Case Study on a Child’s Play Running Record
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A case study on a child’s play running record
The field of education has made tremendous gains over the years. These changes have been both covert and overt especially in the area of curriculum planning. The myriad studies done in this area have been precipitated by the fundamental role that education has played in society since time immemorial. One of the areas that has persistently benefited from this research is the teaching methodology. From the days of informal education to the contemporary highly technical age, there have been many changes in between most of which remnants can be seen even in the sophisticated modern methods. However, these developments have not been all smooth and again, this can be blamed on the special interest that society has in education. One of the most debated learning tools has been child’s play and though it has been incorporated in most modern curriculums, there are still conservative notions that this might not be very instrumental.
This case study employs a running record to analyze the effectiveness of child’s play and also to monitor the growth and development of the child. Running records have been used for a long time as very crucial learning assessment tools in language learning. They are commonly used in the first years of learning and teachers use their time recording and analyzing children records based on their performance. These analyses are then used for parent’s reports but more importantly, to organize children into achievement based programs (Goodman & Burke 1972). Running records originated from studies done in the 1960s especially by Marie Clay but at the time, the emphasis was on miscued analysis which can be termed as simplified forms of the later (Clay,1967). The running record used in this analysis will be decoded based on five fundamental areas namely; physical
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A case study on a child’s play running record
The field of education has made tremendous gains over the years. These changes have been both covert and overt especially in the area of curriculum planning. The myriad studies done in this area have been precipitated by the fundamental role that education has played in society since time immemorial. One of the areas that has persistently benefited from this research is the teaching methodology. From the days of informal education to the contemporary highly technical age, there have been many changes in between most of which remnants can be seen even in the sophisticated modern methods. However, these developments have not been all smooth and again, this can be blamed on the special interest that society has in education. One of the most debated learning tools has been child’s play and though it has been incorporated in most modern curriculums, there are still conservative notions that this might not be very instrumental.
This case study employs a running record to analyze the effectiveness of child’s play and also to monitor the growth and development of the child. Running records have been used for a long time as very crucial learning assessment tools in language learning. They are commonly used in the first years of learning and teachers use their time recording and analyzing children records based on their performance. These analyses are then used for parent’s reports but more importantly, to organize children into achievement based programs (Goodman & Burke 1972). Running records originated from studies done in the 1960s especially by Marie Clay but at the time, the emphasis was on miscued analysis which can be termed as simplified forms of the later (Clay,1967). The running record used in this analysis will be decoded based on five fundamental areas namely; physical
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