Assessing Kindergarten Children: What School Systems Need to Know.

摘要

This resource book is designed to guide school systems through a decision-making process to design an assessment system that is best suited to their particular needs. The assessment 'system' will collect information from children through assessment measures and perhaps other sources of data, such as health records or demographic data. Persons involved in selecting assessment measures and designing schoolwide assessment systems can use this book as a planning guide-a tool to help them make decisions about assessments based on 'best practices' in early childhood assessment. Persons with varying experiences-superintendents, principals, teachers, policymakers, higher education faculty, parents, and early childhood program representatives - may be involved in designing statewide or district-wide assessment systems and may find this book helpful. The principles outlined in the guide are based upon recommendations from the National Education Goals Panel Early Childhood Assessments Resource Group (1998) in the publication 'Principles and Recommendations for Early Childhood Assessments', numerous position statements on early childhood assessment developed by various professional associations, our knowledge of recent developments in early childhood research and theory, and the authors' own experiences working with school systems as they develop assessment systems.