Transcription of What Assessment Means to Early Childhood Educators
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72 ExchangeSeptember/October 2004 Assessmentcific nature of the problem. For example, ascreening tool such as theAges and StagesQuestionnaires (Bricker & Squires, 1999)would be administered to determinewhether there is cause for concern aboutSean s language development. If resultsfrom the screening show a delay, an in-depth Assessment is conducted to deter-mine the specific type of delay, thestrengths and needs of children, and rec-ommendations for intervention. Assessments can also be used to identifyappropriate curricula and teaching strate-gies for individual children and to docu-ment children s progress over time. Forexample, teachers can develop a system-atic plan to document Sakara s progressin attending to a task and to identifywhich teaching strategies help her.
for practitioners in the areas of alter-native and cross-cultural assess-ment, early language and literacy, and personnel preparation in inclusive early childhood settings. She has co-authored a book on alternative assessment approaches with Dr. Angela Notari-Syverson. Xoxoxo ... competencies differently in the home, in early childhood programs ...
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