ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses at different ways of taking notice of what children say and do and paid some attention to using these bits of evidence and to arrive some conclusion about what the child knows and can do. It is an approach where the adult are assessing what have seen and heard in terms of what one know about the individual child based on some understanding of child development. In the creches for the youngest children in Reggio Emilia daily records of personal events are displayed where the parents can see them. Parents and carers continually take notice of their children and are attentive to significant moments, sometimes called milestones. Cameras and written notes make up the documentation. The two brief pieces from the developmental diaries kept by Charles Darwin are analytical and perceptive. Lilian Katz said that a disposition is a pattern of behaviour which is exhibited in the absence of any coercion.
