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What are the advantages of the use of interviews by an Early Childhood Development and Education(ECDE) teacher to assess the cognitive development of young children?

      

Highlight the advantages of the use of interviews by an Early Childhood Development and Education(ECDE) teacher to assess the cognitive development of young children.

  

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Maurice
(i) Teacher can obtain first hand information from the children.

(ii) Teacher can obtain non-verbal cues from the children.

(iii) Flexibility/ teacher can alter the questions to suit the situation.

(iv) Able to probe for more details in given tasks/ more information can be obtained.

(v) Clarity of questions/ ensure children interpret questions the way they were intended.

(vi) Teacher can explore/ follow interesting/ unexpected ideas/ themes raised by the children.

(vii) Appropriate for children who cannot write.

(viii) Sometimes interviews are the only tools available/ no existing standardized tools to obtain the data.
maurice.mutuku answered the question on August 18, 2017 at 06:24


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