This presentation is intended for Daycare teachers and Early Childhood Education major pre-service teachers. This will guide you on the "what" of assessment in the context of ECCD. In short, the basics.

1. Assessmentoflearning
forearlychildhood
Mr. Ronald M. Quileste, M.Ed.
Preschool Educ. / Assessment of Learning Instructor
School of Education
Xavier University – Ateneo de Cagayan
Cagayan de Oro City, Misamis Oriental

2. Assessment vs. Testing
Types of Assessment
General Issues of Assessment
ECCD Assessment Methods

3. Criteria of Reliable and Valid
Preschool Assessment

4. Assessment
Vs
testing

5. Assessmentis…
is the process of collecting, synthesizing,
and interpreting information to aid
classroom decision-making. It includes
information gathered about pupils,
instruction, and classroom climate.”

6. Testing is…
is a formal, systematic procedure for
gathering a sample of pupils’ behavior.
The results of a test are used to make
generalizations about how pupils would
have performed on similar but untested
behaviors.”

7. Testing is part
of assessment

8. What are the
types of
assessment

9. 1

10. 2

11. 3

12. 4

13. Issues of
assessment

14. 1
Uses of Child
Assessment

15. 1 UsesofChildAssessment
Assessment can provide four types of
information for and about children and their
parents, teachers, and programs

16. 1 UsesofChildAssessment
Identify children who may be in
need of specialized services

17. 1 UsesofChildAssessment
Plan instruction for individuals and
groups of children

18. 1 UsesofChildAssessment
Identify program improvement and
staff development needs

19. 1 UsesofChildAssessment
Evaluate how well a program is
meeting goals for children

20. 2
Reliability
and
Validity

21. 2 Reliability
Reliability refers to the consistency, or
reproducibility of measurements

22. 2 validity
Validity is the degree to which a test
measures what it is supposed to
measure.

23. Eccd
assessment
methods

24. 1
Standardized
Testing

25. 2
Informal
Assessment
Methods

26. 2 Informal Assessment Methods
Authentic
assessments

27. 2 Informal Assessment Methods
Authentic
assessments
(reallifetesting)

28. 3
Observations

29. 3 Observations
Anecdotal Records
Checklists
Rating Scales

30. 4
Portfolio
assessment

31. 4
Portfolio
assessment
(progresstesting)

32. 5
Teacher
ratings

33. 6
Parent
ratings

34. Criteria of
Reliable and Valid
Preschool
Assessment

35. 1
Assessment should not
make children feel
anxious or scared

36. 2
Information should be
obtained over time

37. 3
An attempt should be made to obtain
information on the same content area
from multiple and diverse sources,
especially when repeated instances of
data gathering are not feasible

38. 4
The length of the assessment
should be sensitive to young
children’s interests and
attention spans

39. 5
Testing for purposes of
program accountability should
employ appropriate sampling
methods whenever feasible

40. FINALLY,
REFLECT ON
THIS…

41. The Animal School
by Rev. Dr. Devorah Greenstein

42. • Many years ago, the animals in the Great
Forest decided that they wanted to start a
school for all their children. Until that time,
it had been the responsibility of parents to
teach their children the skills they needed
to know, but the animals in the Great
Forest wanted their children to learn from
professional teachers. So they organized a
school and hired staff.

43. • The teachers met and decided to provide a
standardized educational curriculum to their animal
students. So they adopted an activity curriculum
consisting of swimming, running, flying, and
climbing. All the animals took all the subjects –
because it was very important to them that no child
be left behind. To ensure that students were
progressing satisfactorily, standardized
achievement tests were administered to all
students.

44. • Here's what happened. The ducks were excellent in
swimming. In fact, the ducks were better than their teacher.
But some of the ducks made only passing grades in flying
and all of them were very poor in running. Since they were
slow in running, they had to stay after school for remedial
running practice, and they had to drop swimming in order to
practice running during their swimming class time. This was
kept up until all the ducks‘ webbed feet were very sore. And
the ducks were so tired, that soon they were only average in
swimming. But average was acceptable in school, so
nobody worried about that – except the ducks.

45. • In running, the rabbits started at the top of the class,
but they did very poorly in swimming. Also, the rabbits
insisted on hopping around, and the teachers were
concerned about their hyperactivity – so they made
the rabbits walk everywhere instead of allowing them
to run or hop. And the rabbits had to come in early
every day for special swimming class. Many of the
younger rabbits developed severe fur problems
because they were having to spend so much time in
the swimming pool.

46. • The squirrels were excellent in climbing and
running. In fact, the squirrels were the best
students at climbing the standardized tree. But
they wanted to fly by first climbing the tree,
then spreading their paws, and gliding to the
ground. (That's the way squirrels fly.) But in
flying class their teacher made them start on
the ground instead of at the treetop, and the
squirrels were not mastering the course
material.

47. • So every day, the squirrels had therapy – a
flying therapist took the squirrels into the
gym and made them do front-paw exercises
to strengthen their muscles so they could
learn to fly the right way. The squirrels'
paws hurt so much from this overexertion
that some of them only got a C in climbing.
Some of the squirrels failed climbing
altogether.

48. • The eagles were definitely problem children – in climbing
class, the eagles beat all the others to the top of the tree, but
they insisted on using their own way to get there and were
quite stubborn about it. The eagles said that clearly it was
the goal that mattered, and that it was quite right for eagles
to get to the treetop by flying. The school psychologist
diagnosed them as having oppositional-defiant disorder.
(That's a real diagnosis that some children are given in
school.) A strict behavior modification plan was developed
for the eagles.

49. In conclusion…

50. Developing and implementing a
balanced approach to assessment is
not an easy or inexpensive
undertaking. But because we value
our children and respect those
charged with their education, it is an
investment worth making.

51. nAMASTE