1. Jalongo & Isenberg, Exploring Your Role, 3e Copyright © 2008 by Pearson Education, Inc. All rights reserved. 9.1 Chapter 9: Exploring Your Role in Documenting and Assessing Children’s Learning

2. Jalongo & Isenberg, Exploring Your Role, 3e Copyright © 2008 by Pearson Education, Inc. All rights reserved. 9.2 Early Childhood Assessment: A Question to Consider What do you feel are the most notable purposes of assessment?

3. Jalongo & Isenberg, Exploring Your Role, 3e Copyright © 2008 by Pearson Education, Inc. All rights reserved. 9.3 Main Purposes for Assessment in Early Childhood 1.Plan instruction 2.Communicate with parents and families 3.Identify children and families who have needs 4.Evaluate programs

4. Jalongo & Isenberg, Exploring Your Role, 3e Copyright © 2008 by Pearson Education, Inc. All rights reserved. 9.4 Assessment Fulfills its Purpose When... it has a specific and appropriate purpose it is reliable and valid it has tasks suited to developmental levels it takes linguistic and cultural differences into account the results are used to benefit the child the process values families and communicates data to them (Gullo, 2006)

5. Jalongo & Isenberg, Exploring Your Role, 3e Copyright © 2008 by Pearson Education, Inc. All rights reserved. 9.5 Your Role as an Evaluator Recognizing unethical, illegal, and inappropriate assessment methods and uses of information Choosing and developing appropriate methods Administering, scoring, and interpreting results Communicating assessment results, as appropriate Involving children and families in the assessment process

6. Jalongo & Isenberg, Exploring Your Role, 3e Copyright © 2008 by Pearson Education, Inc. All rights reserved. 9.6 Approaches to Assessment Norm-Referenced or Standardized Criterion-Referenced Performance Assessment

7. Jalongo & Isenberg, Exploring Your Role, 3e Copyright © 2008 by Pearson Education, Inc. All rights reserved. 9.7 Methods for Observing and Recording Anecdotal records Time sampling Event sampling Checklists Rating scales Mechanical means Interviews Drawings

8. Jalongo & Isenberg, Exploring Your Role, 3e Copyright © 2008 by Pearson Education, Inc. All rights reserved. 9.8 Indicators of a Balanced Assessment Program Student motivation to learn Child and family participation Recognition that errors are part of the learning process Varied opportunities to demonstrate knowledge Recognizes the limitations of measurement Does not confuse measurement with curriculum and instruction

9. Jalongo & Isenberg, Exploring Your Role, 3e Copyright © 2008 by Pearson Education, Inc. All rights reserved. 9.9 Minimizing Test Anxiety Focus learning away from the test Explain the nature of the tests Select culturally relevant tests Appreciate students’ cultural backgrounds Be aware of influences on student learning Implement a curriculum theory (Cizek & Burg, 2006; Garcia, 2002; Kirylo, 2006)