


Runing record includes all behavior and not just selected incidents The difference between an anecdotal record and a running record In running record, the observer sits or stands apart from the children and writes down everything that occurs to a particular child over a specified period.

Running record is a detailed narrative account of beahvior recorded in sequential manner as it happens. Anecdotal records are brief narrative accounts describing an incident of the child behavior that is important to the observer.Īnecdotes describe what happened in a factual objective manner telling how it happened when and where it happened and what was said and done.Īnecdotal records are written after the incident has occured, by someone who has witness it informally rather than during its occurence.Īn advantage of anecdotal recording is that an observer needs no special training to record.
