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These changes in Pre-K pose new challenges for early childhood educators. For example, how do you document the academic progress of young children in a developmentally appropriate manner? The National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC) offers the following guidelines:
- Assessments must be fair for all children.
- Assessments should be based on realistic settings that reflect a child’s actual performance.
- Assessments should be based on multiple, systematic observations of a child over a period of time.
- Assessments should be used to guide follow-up instruction.¹
Riverside Publishing offers several quality assessments that have been developed around NAEYC’s guidelines. As you define your early education assessment plans, Riverside Publishing is ready to assist you. As a leader in the educational assessment area, Riverside can help you implement measurement tools that are fair, developmentally appropriate, valid and reliable.
Qualls Early Learning Inventory™ (QELI™)
Battelle Developmental Inventory, 2nd Edition (BDI-2)
Stanford-Binet Intelligence Scales for Early Childhood
Infant-Toddler Developmental Assessment (IDA)
Free Guide to Early Childhood Assessment
The assessment strategies of K-12 are not always developmentally appropriate for young children. Early childhood educators need assessments that provide valid and reliable information, yet take into consideration the unique needs of the students they teach.
We’ve developed a free Guide to the Developmentally Appropriate Assessment of Young Children that can help you understand best practices in monitoring growth with your students. Download your free copy in Adobe Acrobat format by clicking on the image below.
You can document the academic growth of your children in fair and accurate ways. Riverside Publishing can help you understand how.
1 Joint statement by NAEYC and the National Association of Early Childhood Specialists in State Departments of Education (NAECS/SDE) Early Childhood Curriculum, Assessment and Program Evaluation: Building An Effective, Accountable System in Programs for Children Birth through Age 8, November 2003.