Teachers and Others Who Work Regularly with Children and Adolescents

Teachers and others who work regularly with children and adolescents often need to gather information about the youngsters in their charge. Three of the following are recommendations for collecting and using information. Which one is not recommended?

A) Collect information from a variety of sources.
B) Form several different hypotheses that might explain a child's behavior.
C) Critically examine your assumptions and hunches, recognizing that they might be incorrect.
D) Realize that validity and reliability are less important in daily work with children than they are in research.