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What Assessment Means to Early Childhood Educators
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. Thistype of Assessment is referred to as pro-gram Assessment . Program assessmenttools can also be used for program evalua-tionpurposes when comparing the perfor-mance of groups of children before andafter instruction.
assessment. Portfolio assessment is a type of perfor-mance assessment that refers to the pur-poseful collection of a child’s work documenting the child’s effort, progress, or achievement over time. For young children, portfolios may include perfor-mance-based samples such as art and drawings, photographs of block con-
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