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What is (Last Name, Year, PG#)
What is the purpose of observation?
Helps you build relationships with students, gives you information you need for to make decisions while teaching, enhances your knowledge about child development and learning, helps you gather evidence for meeting curriculum goals
What is a checklist used for?
Checklists are used to indicate whether a behavior is present or absent
What are screening tools?
Assessments that quickly evaluate whether a child may need further evaluation.
True or False: are parent-teacher conferences a form of direct communication.
What is true?
What is an impactful and effective curriculum?
Children are active and engaged, goals are clear and shared by all.
Are child assessment tools only used in the education field or can they be used in others?
No, they are also used frequently in the health fields and other health practitioners.
Name the three types of rubrics:
What is? Holistic, analytic, and developmental
What is communication or language development?
A component of child assessment tools that focuses on how children express themselves
What is a classroom visit or observation day?
Teachers might invite parents to participate in this activity or to observe
What should assessment in the classroom focus on?
What is gathering and documenting information educators need to identify strengths, needs, and progress of the children in their classrooms.
Inter-rater reliability refers to...
What is whether or not the individual administering the measurement tool can do so in a consistent way?
What are the three types of standardized tests that assess ability?
Intelligence, achievement, and aptitude
What is a developmental assessment?
What is? A type of assessment is used to diagnose developmental delays or disorders.
What is instructional support?
The CLASS tool evaluates three major domains: emotional support, classroom organization, and this.
What is the purpose of Assessment?
To gather information about how specific children are developing science concepts might collect the children's drawings, take photographs of their constructions, and make records of their conversations
What is the difference between informal and formal observation ?
Informal observations are less structured and more randomly organized. While formal observations are structured and typically planned in advance.
What is an interest inventory?
Used to determine a person's interest in a certain area.
Ex: a teacher may give her students a reading interest inventory to provide the teacher with a guide when selecting reading material
What is the Infant/Toddler Environment Rating Scale (ITERS)?
This environmental rating scale is used primarily to evaluate settings for infants and toddlers.
What is the Classroom Assessment Scoring System (CLASS)?
This evaluation tool focuses on teacher-child interactions and their impact on learning
Why is standardized testing flawed?
What is bias and a one-size-fits all mentality. (Not culturally responsive)
What is the difference between construct validity and content validity?
Content validity assures program staff are using a measurement tool that is assessing the behaviors or skills of interest by measuring all key indicators of those skills where construct validity indicates that the items of an assessment tool or developmental screener are capturing the aspects of development that are the focus of the measure and the importance to program staff
Name at least one advantage and disadvantage of using checklists with young children
What is?
Advantages: easy to use, require little instruction/training, can be used with a variety of assessment strategies, can be easily shared with parents
Disadvantages: can be time consuming, checklist do not indicate how well a child performs
What are environmental rating scales?
This type of tool evaluates the quality of early childhood learning environments.
What is this domain evaluates how teachers manage time, behavior, and activities to maximize learning.