Observation, documentation, and assessing the work of young students is one of the most important jobs of early childhood educators. The overall assessment of a child can be done in many ways from conducting a running record, where the child reads to the teacher and the teacher takes notes on his or her fluency, to standardized testing which has become the norm in many states. Assessment is normally done fairly frequently so the teacher knows if the child understands what he or she has learned so far and whether they are ready to move on or not. This is called formative assessment. Summative assessment is done at the end of a large section of academic work, for example at the end of a semester or school year. One of the most successful and common ways of assessing young children is through performance assessment, also called authentic assessment. This type of assessment calls for the child to be given real life scenarios that they have to work through. For example, if a child is learning mathematical word problems, an example of performance assessment for this would be a question like, "You are making an apple pie. The recipe calls for four apples but you only have two. How many more do you need to buy at the grocery store?
Observation, documentation, and assessing the work of young students is one of the most important jobs of early childhood educators. The overall assessment of a child can be done in many ways from conducting a running record, where the child reads to the teacher and the teacher takes notes on his or her fluency, to standardized testing which has become the norm in many states. Assessment is normally done fairly frequently so the teacher knows if the child understands what he or she has learned so far and whether they are ready to move on or not. This is called formative assessment. Summative assessment is done at the end of a large section of academic work, for example at the end of a semester or school year. One of the most successful and common ways of assessing young children is through performance assessment, also called authentic assessment. This type of assessment calls for the child to be given real life scenarios that they have to work through. For example, if a child is learning mathematical word problems, an example of performance assessment for this would be a question like, "You are making an apple pie. The recipe calls for four apples but you only have two. How many more do you need to buy at the grocery store?
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