Throughout most of the quarter I had to privilege to volunteer at Oak Ridge Elementary School in Mrs. Houghton’s third grade room. When I first walked into the room, I immediately could see the walls covered in posters on all four of the walls. The posters ranged from Be on Target posters to numbers for math with inspirational quotes with maybe a little artwork. In addition to the posters, there was a gigantic reading area in the opposite corner from the door. The kids, that range from ages 8 to
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The settings I studied were two grocery stores. The first store was a college campus grocery store/deli. This store was small and had few employees. The atmosphere of this store was casual and somewhat relaxed. The atmosphere was created by the employees’, their interactions with the customers, and the types of services being offered. The employees wore jeans and polo uniform shirts which is very casual and nothing like business attire or a full uniform like larger grocery store might make them
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For my data collection, I will be observing behavior at three different location. The first location that I will be observing behavior is on Thanksgiving at the family lunch time. I am planning to observe all the adults at the Thanksgiving lunch. The behavior that I will be observing that the adult will be informal with one another, one trying to sound more knowledgeable than the other. They will talk over each other, correcting each other about the information that they know and learned. The next
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not speak at all to anyone she would just do her assigned class work. Indeed she is very neat. She had no papers on her desk and inside of her desk was very organized. 2) Describe the activities the child participated in during your observation. During my observation for my first time visit she was seeing her occupational therapist. The first assignment she told me target child to do was to get four marble balls out of silly pudding. She completed this lesson fully and this was a great hands activity
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First, it is essential to evaluate the primary sources in order set up the contexts of this research. The researcher conducted an observation at the Wade Adoption Center operated by the Humane Society of Northwest Georgia. On Friday October 28th, 2016 the researcher spent approximately two hours not only observing the volunteers, but performing some of their routine activities. The researcher was greeted by Tracy, a middle-aged woman. Tracy allowed the researcher to sign in and she began to explain
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During this assignment we had to redirect the child behavior in some way and we had to observe their reaction towards the redirection. We also had to ask the child who their best friend is, how did they become friends and so on. For this assignment, I observed my nephew, who is about 16 months old. When I first started talking to him, he was playing with his father’s phone. He was trying to do jigsaw puzzle on the phone. After watching him for few minutes I told his father to give him a book to read
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The grade level of the observed classroom was a pre-kindergarten class. This classroom consisted of one general educator and two teacher aides. The educator has the use physical therapist, occupational therapist, a speech therapist, and a traditional counselor. This particular classroom had of twenty-two students, ten girls and twelve boys. The students consisted of one African American, one Asian, and twenty Caucasian students; three of these students are special needs and two who are gifted. The
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Observation #2: STMC & GLSP For our second observation assignment we were to observe thirty minutes of significant and instructional physical education and/or sport activity for youth. I again visited my daughters’ elementary school Pomerado Elementary to observe one of their physical education classes. I had the opportunity of watching two classes, one fourth and one fifth grade, play kickball for their thirty minute physical education activity for the day. The fourth grade class consisted of 34
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regular time intervals by the observer. B) –Unlike non-participant observation, participant observation ensures that there is next to no room for the researcher to take a subjective opinion when recording observations, meaning they will probably be more accurate, and true to life. C) Informed consent is unlikely to have been achieved if no one knows that they are being observed, this is not good because they do not know what the observation entails, so it is impossible for them to give their consent.
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use overt observation when conducting research There are several types of observation to distinguish between. Firstly, non-participation observation where the researcher simply observes the group or event without taking part in it, for example, using a two-way mirror to observe children playing with toys. There is also participant observation where the researcher actually takes part in the event or the everyday life of the group while observing it. Secondly there is overt observation, in which
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