Assessing and Guiding Young Children's Development and Learning - Softcover

Oralie McAfee

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Designed for use as a main supplement for undergraduate and graduate students in courses on Assessment, Measurement, and Evaluation in Early Childhood. It may also be used as a supplement in courses in Early Childhood Curriculum and Teaching in the Early Childhood Classroom, as well as in early childhood block courses. This text is a comprehensive guide to alternative, authentic assessment in early childhood curriculum. It provides the most current research and practical guides to integrate assessment with teaching. It shows assessment as a process teachers can use, following these procedures: portfolios; standards, benchmarks, and rubrics; and guides for organizing assessment, including forms that can be adapted or duplicated.

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The revision of this comprehensive guide to alternative, authentic assessment in early childhood curriculum continues to provide the most current research and practical guides to integrate assessment with teaching. It is the only book to show assessment as a process that teachers can use in their own classrooms, using the latest procedures: portfolios; standards, benchmarks, and rubrics; and guides for organizing assessment, including forms that can be adapted or duplicated. Unique to this book are guides to interpreting and using assessment information once it has been collected. For use in the classroom, these guides are based on the most current research about how young children learn, including constructivist approaches and cultural and individual differences. For professionals working in the field of early childhood education.

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