Role of Assessment

• Identify the key elements of assessment in an early childhood classroom.
• Identify the key terminology used in early childhood assessment.
• Analyze the role of assessment in the early childhood classroom as it relates to designing and implementing effective programs and practices.

Issues and Trends in Early Childhood Assessment

• Analyze how historical, social, and cultural aspects of assessment have had an impact on current issues and trends in early childhood assessment.
• Identify the legal and ethical aspects of assessment.

Assessment Tools and Approaches

• Examine a range of assessment tools and approaches for gathering, documenting, interpreting, and analyzing assessment results.
• Conduct observations of children in classrooms, homes, and communities where there is access to play and formal learning experiences.
• Identify how to interpret observations and reflect on their significance.

Assessment Tools and Approaches (cont.)

• Analyze the characteristics, strengths, and weaknesses of assessment tools and approaches.
• Identify valid assessment tools and approaches that are developmentally, culturally, and linguistically appropriate.
• Examine the use of assistive technology as an assessment tool.

Assessment Partnerships

• Identify the significance of creating assessment partnerships with families and colleagues.
• Analyze methods for positively communicating with families and colleagues when reporting assessment results.

Uses of Assessment

• Examine how to use assessment results to make curricular modifications.
• Analyze the use of assessment results to plan instructional strategies and activities.