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

McAfee, Oralie; Leong, Deborah J.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0205263321 ISBN 13: 9780205263325

Publisher: Pearson, 1996

Synopsis

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.

About this title

From the Back Cover

This comprehensive guide to assessment in early childhood continues to provide the most current research, best thinking, and practical guidance to integrate assessment with effective teaching.

 

Assessing and Guiding Young Children’s Development and Learning is the only book that portrays assessment as a process teachers can use to improve teaching and ensure student learning.  It incorporates current trends in assessment with examples and approaches being used in early childhood classrooms. The assessment strategies presented are compatible with all approaches to educating young children.  The social, cultural, legal, and ethical context of assessment and its implications for teachers and teaching are realistically presented.

 

Throughout this fourth edition, text and references have been updated to reflect current practices in assessment, such as increased mandated assessment, increased emphasis on early literacy and mathematical learning, and an increasingly diverse population of children.

 

What’s new in the fourth edition?

 

• Chapter 2 has been updated to reflect the new legislation on IDEA (IDEA 2004). No Child Left Behind is included, with discussion of its impact on early childhood teachers and classrooms.   This edition includes more discussion of state legislation.
• Sections on the teacher's role in screening and in environmental assessments (such as the ECERS) have been added. 
• Examples from commercial instruments, such as the COR, WSS, and Creative Curriculum have been incorporated. The section on compiling information uses examples from commercial materials, in addition to showing teachers how to create their own.
• Discussion of and use of "alignment" has been added throughout.

About the Author

Oralie McAfee is professor emerita of early childhood education at Metropolitan State College of Denver. She is the author of books, research papers, articles, curriculum and teacher-training materials, and other publications related to working with young children and their families in the classroom and home, and has presented on these topics throughout the United States. She has done research on assessment practices and needs in Head Start and in selected state-funded prekindergarten programs. She is author (with Deborah J. Leong and Elena Bodrova) of Basics of Assessment: A Primer for Early Childhood Educators (National Association for the Education of Young Children, 2004).

Deborah J. Leong is a professor emerita  of psychology at Metropolitan State College of Denver and director of the Tools of the Mind Curriculum Project, a Vygotskian-based early childhood teacher-training program. She is also a research fellow at the National Institute for Early Education Research (NIEER) working on a computerized Pre-K state standards database and a database of preschool assessment instruments with Elena Bodrova. She is co-author with Dr. McAfee and Dr. Bodrova of Basics of Assessment (National Association for the Education of Young Children, 2004). Dr. Leong is also co-author with Dr. Bodrova of Tools of the Mind: The Vygotskian Approach to Early Childhood Education (Merrill/Prentice Hall, 2007) and four educational videos (Davidson Films). She has written many articles on assessment, play, early literacy, and the development of self-regulation in young children.

Edition details

• Publisher: Pearson
• Publication date: 1996
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0205263321
• ISBN 13: 9780205263325
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 283