Early Learning Project
Updated: 2012 Resource Lists
Integrating the Illinois Early Learning Standards and Performance Assessment
Illinois Early Learning Resources
- Integrating the Illinois Early Learning Standards and Performance Assessment (Chat transcript)
http://illinoisearlylearning.org/chat/grace/index.htm - Illinois Early Learning Standards
http://illinoisearlylearning.org/standards/
http://illinoisearlylearning.org/standards/index-sp.htm
Online Resources
- Linking Standards and Engaged Learning in the Early Years
This article recommends a decision-making process for documenting children's performance as it relates to standards in a way that is consistent with how young children demonstrate their knowledge and skills.
http://ecrp.uiuc.edu/v2n1/helm.html - Perspectives on Early Childhood Learning Standards and Assessment
This chapter describes the development of well-defined expectations for child outcomes—that is, early learning standards—as a function of participation in an early childhood setting, how these learning standards are being used, and how practitioners are able to access information about how to use them.
http://www.nap.edu/openbook.php?record_id=12446&page=43 - The Portfolio and Its Use: Developmentally Appropriate Assessment of Young Children
In this digest, the author notes that the appropriate assessment of young children involves the children themselves, parents, and teachers. Portfolios in assessment can include work samples, records of various forms of systematic observation, and screening tests.
http://ceep.crc.uiuc.edu/eecearchive/digests/1992/grace92.html - A Developmental Approach to Assessment of Young Children
In this digest, Dr. Lilian Katz clarifies the main purposes for which children are typically assessed and discusses the relationship between assessment and instruction..
http://ceep.crc.uiuc.edu/eecearchive/digests/1997/katz97.html - Critical Issue: Assessing Young Children's Progress Appropriately
This article discusses the problems unique to assessing young children and suggests approaches to implementing appropriate assessment procedures.
http://www.ncrel.org/sdrs/areas/issues/students/earlycld/ea500.htm - Strategies for Collecting, Recording, and Interpreting Assessment Information
This table matches the purpose of assessment with the type—formal or informal.
http://www.ncrel.org/sdrs/areas/issues/students/earlycld/ea5lk14.htm - Curriculum, Assessment, and Program Evaluation (PDF)
This statement from the National Association for the Education of Young Children and the National Association of Early Childhood Specialists in State Departments of Education outlines their position on what children should be taught in the years from birth through age 8, how to determine whether children are developing well and learning what they need to learn, and how to determine whether programs for children from infancy through the primary grades are doing a good job.
http://www.naeyc.org/files/naeyc/file/positions/StandCurrAss.pdf
Updated: 2012
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