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The following practices for observation, documentation, and assessment are developmentally appropriate for children from birth through the primary grades. A. Observation, documentation, and assessment of young children’s progress and achievements is ongoing, strategic, reflective, and purposeful. Educators embed assessment-related activities ...
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35. Assessing Children’s Development. Assessment is “a systematic process which allows for understanding a child’s competencies” [1] Every child in your class needs to be assessed. To properly assess children, we use observations and documentation to determine a child’s abilities, interests, strengths, and areas of development that ...
early childhood programs. • promote broad-based dialogue on these issues, within and beyond the early childhood field. • create a shared language and evidence-based frame of reference so that practitioners, decision makers, and families may talk together about early childhood curriculum, assessment, and program
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Early Childhood Assess - ment: Why, What, and How. Committee on Developmental Outcomes and Assessments for Young Children, C.E. Snow and S.B. Van Hemel, Editors. Board on Children, Youth, and Families, Board on Testing and Assessment, Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press.
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We have written at length about the need for a fusion of assessment and instruction in early childhood settings. Assessment has an important role to play in revealing a child’s prior knowledge, development of concepts, and ways of interacting with and understanding the world so that teachers can choose a pedagogical approach and curricular materials that will support the child’s further ...
Apr 27, 2017 · More broadly assessment can also be connected with evaluating the effectiveness of an early childhood program or school (Bowman, et al. 2001). Assessment can be seen to be in the best interests of the child when involves families and leads to decisions that support children’s learning and social contributions and recognizes children’s strengths, needs, interests and preferences ( Bagnato ...
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In addition, early childhood assessment identifies the need for intervention or support services due to developmental delays or other risk factors influencing typical development. Finally, assessment supports programs in evaluating the effectiveness of learning environments, curriculum and instructional practices. A comprehensive assessment system within an early childhood program should ...
