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Assessment in Early Childhood Education 7th Edition
This comprehensive text helps prepare future and current teachers to measure or evaluate children in early childhood, to become fully informed about the range of assessment possibilities available, and to learn how those techniques and instruments can be most beneficial to the children in their classrooms. This new edition features expanded and enhanced material covering the ever-growing trend toward performance assessment, portfolios, and other methods of reporting a child’s performance. Throughout, the approach of the authors is to present the development of an assessment system that includes traditional as well as authentic assessment strategies in a comprehensive plan and to seek to inform the reader about all types of assessments and their appropriate use.
Students preparing to become teachers of young children from infancy through the early primary grades must be prepared to measure or evaluate children who are in the period of development called early childhood. Tests and other types of assessments designed for young children are different from those intended for children in later grades in elementary school. Because infants and children under age 8 have
developmental needs different from those of older children, a textbook that includes discussion of assessment in the early childhood years must be written from a developmental perspective.
In the second decade of the 21st century, early childhood educators have been challenged in their efforts to assess very young children using the most important strategies for their ongoing development. As a result, it is especially important that future teachers and teachers who are struggling with these issues be fully informed about the range of assessment possibilities and where they are the most beneficial for young children.
Traditional and Authentic Assessment Strategies
This book is written for future teachers and current teachers of young children. It includes information about standardized tests and, more importantly, other types of assessments that are appropriate for young children, such as screening tools, observations, checklists, and rating scales. Assessments designed by teachers are explained both for preschool children and for kindergarten and primary-grade children who are transitioning into literacy. With the ever-growing trend toward performance assessment, portfolios, and other methods of reporting a child’s performance, chapters describing these strategies have been expanded and enhanced. The approach of this edition is the development of an assessment system that includes traditional as well as authentic assessment strategies in a comprehensive plan. Thus, in this new edition, we seek to inform the reader about all types of assessments and their appropriate use.
New to this edition
• Video links embedded in the Pearson eText make it possible for students to see real-life examples of the content in each chapter.
• Formative and summative assessments for students in the Pearson eText include “Checking Your Understanding” within major sections of each chapter so that students can gauge their understanding as they read and study the material, end of chapter “Review Questions” support student learning and knowledge retention, and end-of-chapter “Applying What You Have Learned” to provide practice applying chapter concepts for deeper understanding.
• Chapter 5, Classroom Assessment and Documentation is a new chapter and Chapter 6, Observation, which used to be the focus of Chapter 5, is now expanded and covered in its own chapter to give sufficient coverage and guidelines to each of these important topics and skills. Chapter 6 also explains how observation strategies are adapted for infants and toddlers, children with disabilities, and English language learners (ELLs).
• New information is presented on the increasing importance of technology in assessment, such as electronic portfolios and teacher use of social media to share information on assessment.
• The impact of educational policies such as Common Core State Standards and early learning standards for very young children and how they support meaningful performance assessment are discussed.
• Updated information on standardized tests includes new tests and the deletion of some outdated tests