DCF Exam (Latest Update )
Child Care Behavioral Observation and
Screening (BOSR) Questions and Verified
Answers
Physical health - correct answer Refer to the changes in body shape and proportion. It
includes change in weight, height, and etc.
Motor development - correct answer Refers to a child's ability to make about and
control body parts such as grasping, rolling over, hopping, etc.
Cognitive development and general knowledge - correct answer Refers to a child's
intellectual or mental abilities. It involves finding processing and organizing
information and using it appropriately. Discovering interpreting, sorting, classifying,
and remembering information.
Language and communication - correct answer Refers to child's ability to express
himself verbally and to receive and understand the verbal communication of others. It
involves vocabulary, grammar, reading, writing, and ability to understand things
around them.
Approaches to learning - correct answer Refers to how skills and knowledge are
acquired through the three qualities eagerness and curiosity, persistence and
creativity, and problem solving
Social and emotional - correct answer Focuses how children feel about themselves
and their relationships with others. Refers to individual behavior, responses to play
and work activities, attachment to parents and relationships with siblings and friends.
Age-level expectancies - correct answer Represent a range (rather than an exact
point in time) when specific skills will be achieved.
Activity:
• laughing and show pleasure at interaction
- 8 to 18 months
• digs through sand to find hidden toys
- 24 to 36 months
• inspects own hands and feet
- birth to 8 months
• repeat words over and over
- 18 to 24 months
, DCF Exam (Latest Update )
Child Care Behavioral Observation and
Screening (BOSR) Questions and Verified
Answers
Tools for recording observations of children - correct answer - check lists
- anecdotal records
* facts:
- record only facts
- record every detail, don't leave out anything
- take brief notes throughout the day, but fill in the details as soon as possible
- use action words that describe but do not judge
- record the facts in the order they occur
Observation skills - correct answer - the observer must be totally objective
- do not try to observe more than one child at a time
- do not influence the child's responses by your presence
- make sure there is adequate space for the observation
- make sure that distractions are kept to the minimum
- use an area that is familiar to the child
- make sure you build a relationship with the child and the parents
Observation definition - correct answer - participant observation: allows you to one
interact with children directly and ask them certain things
- overt observation: you do not hide the fact you are observing a child's actions
- non-participant observation: the observer is concealed behind a screen or a 2-way
mirror and does not interact with the child
- convert observation: when the children are not told they are using observed
Developmental screening - correct answer - the screening process can not confirm a
disability
- screening helps to identify children that could be benefit from childhood intervention
programs
- most screening instruments are divided into the categories of physical, cognitive,
language, and social/emotional
- the social/ emotional developmental domain is more difficult to test
The main purpose if any good screening tool - correct answer Is to identify children
who are in need of further evaluation to determine whether they are candidates for
early intervention services
Child Care Behavioral Observation and
Screening (BOSR) Questions and Verified
Answers
Physical health - correct answer Refer to the changes in body shape and proportion. It
includes change in weight, height, and etc.
Motor development - correct answer Refers to a child's ability to make about and
control body parts such as grasping, rolling over, hopping, etc.
Cognitive development and general knowledge - correct answer Refers to a child's
intellectual or mental abilities. It involves finding processing and organizing
information and using it appropriately. Discovering interpreting, sorting, classifying,
and remembering information.
Language and communication - correct answer Refers to child's ability to express
himself verbally and to receive and understand the verbal communication of others. It
involves vocabulary, grammar, reading, writing, and ability to understand things
around them.
Approaches to learning - correct answer Refers to how skills and knowledge are
acquired through the three qualities eagerness and curiosity, persistence and
creativity, and problem solving
Social and emotional - correct answer Focuses how children feel about themselves
and their relationships with others. Refers to individual behavior, responses to play
and work activities, attachment to parents and relationships with siblings and friends.
Age-level expectancies - correct answer Represent a range (rather than an exact
point in time) when specific skills will be achieved.
Activity:
• laughing and show pleasure at interaction
- 8 to 18 months
• digs through sand to find hidden toys
- 24 to 36 months
• inspects own hands and feet
- birth to 8 months
• repeat words over and over
- 18 to 24 months
, DCF Exam (Latest Update )
Child Care Behavioral Observation and
Screening (BOSR) Questions and Verified
Answers
Tools for recording observations of children - correct answer - check lists
- anecdotal records
* facts:
- record only facts
- record every detail, don't leave out anything
- take brief notes throughout the day, but fill in the details as soon as possible
- use action words that describe but do not judge
- record the facts in the order they occur
Observation skills - correct answer - the observer must be totally objective
- do not try to observe more than one child at a time
- do not influence the child's responses by your presence
- make sure there is adequate space for the observation
- make sure that distractions are kept to the minimum
- use an area that is familiar to the child
- make sure you build a relationship with the child and the parents
Observation definition - correct answer - participant observation: allows you to one
interact with children directly and ask them certain things
- overt observation: you do not hide the fact you are observing a child's actions
- non-participant observation: the observer is concealed behind a screen or a 2-way
mirror and does not interact with the child
- convert observation: when the children are not told they are using observed
Developmental screening - correct answer - the screening process can not confirm a
disability
- screening helps to identify children that could be benefit from childhood intervention
programs
- most screening instruments are divided into the categories of physical, cognitive,
language, and social/emotional
- the social/ emotional developmental domain is more difficult to test
The main purpose if any good screening tool - correct answer Is to identify children
who are in need of further evaluation to determine whether they are candidates for
early intervention services
