The purpose of assessments The National Early Childhood Assessment Resource Group summarized the purposes for appropriate uses of assessment in the early childhood years as follows:
Purpose 1: Assessing to promote children’s learning and development;
Purpose 2: Identifying children for health and social services; Purpose 3: Monitoring trends and evaluating programs and services
Purpose 4: Assessing academic achievement to hold individual students, teachers, and schools accountable”
Source:
(Shepard, Kagan, Lynn, & Wurtz, 1998). (pg.3) Principles and Recommendations for Early Childhood Assessments
All early childhood assessments involve a process of gathering information about children to better understand and support learning and development. …show more content…
A Formative assessment will monitor students’ knowledge to provide continuing feedback that can be used by teachers to advance their teaching skills and by students to improve their knowledge.
Summative assessment is “The goal of summative assessment is to evaluate student learning at the end of an instructional unit”
Norm-Referenced - Compare student test scores to another group of “Norm-referenced tests report whether test takers performed better or worse than a hypothetical average student, which is determined by comparing scores against the performance results of a statistically selected group of test takers, typically of the same age or grade level, who have already taken the …show more content…
Observation allows the teacher to see how children are progressing cognitively, physically, socially, and emotionally also child's interests, skills, and needs. Building a relationship with parents, we can learn the child’s strengths needs, and behavior continues to monitor together as a team Observations will include Anecdotal Records, Observation Checklists, Time samples, Portfolios drawings, dictated stories, writing skills, checklists, photographs which we will share with parents or guardians at any time.
How data will be utilized in the classroom Identify current knowledge and skills of students
Address and plan for the strengths and needs of students
Evaluate student progress over time
Encourage student enthusiasm and independence
Evaluate program
Purpose 1: Assessing to promote children’s learning and development;
Purpose 2: Identifying children for health and social services; Purpose 3: Monitoring trends and evaluating programs and services
Purpose 4: Assessing academic achievement to hold individual students, teachers, and schools accountable”
Source:
(Shepard, Kagan, Lynn, & Wurtz, 1998). (pg.3) Principles and Recommendations for Early Childhood Assessments
All early childhood assessments involve a process of gathering information about children to better understand and support learning and development. …show more content…
A Formative assessment will monitor students’ knowledge to provide continuing feedback that can be used by teachers to advance their teaching skills and by students to improve their knowledge.
Summative assessment is “The goal of summative assessment is to evaluate student learning at the end of an instructional unit”
Norm-Referenced - Compare student test scores to another group of “Norm-referenced tests report whether test takers performed better or worse than a hypothetical average student, which is determined by comparing scores against the performance results of a statistically selected group of test takers, typically of the same age or grade level, who have already taken the …show more content…
Observation allows the teacher to see how children are progressing cognitively, physically, socially, and emotionally also child's interests, skills, and needs. Building a relationship with parents, we can learn the child’s strengths needs, and behavior continues to monitor together as a team Observations will include Anecdotal Records, Observation Checklists, Time samples, Portfolios drawings, dictated stories, writing skills, checklists, photographs which we will share with parents or guardians at any time.
How data will be utilized in the classroom Identify current knowledge and skills of students
Address and plan for the strengths and needs of students
Evaluate student progress over time
Encourage student enthusiasm and independence
Evaluate program