Assessing and Guiding Young Children's Development and Learning

by Oralie McAfee, Deborah J. Leong

This comprehensive guide to assessment in early childhood continues to provide the most current research, best thinking, and practical guidance to integrate assessment with effective teaching. Assessing and Guiding Young Children’s Development and Learning is the only book that shows assessment as a process teachers can use to improve teaching and ensure student learning. It incorporates current trends in assessment with examples and approaches being used in early childhood classrooms. The book includes guides for interpreting and using assessment information once it has been collected. The assessment strategies presented are compatible with all approaches to educating young children. The social, cultural, legal, and ethical context of assessment and its implications for teachers and teaching are realistically presented.

Genres: Parenting

304 pages, Paperback

First published February 1, 1994

Reviews

[Nush Anush · Rating 5 out of 5]

Very informative, to the point and easy to read!

[Christa · Rating 2 out of 5]

This book is boring but it's relatively short and it does give you a good overview of the assessment process, which honestly I couldn't care less about at this stage in my teaching. Also, for fellow students: The index is useless.

[Katherine Fountain · Rating 2 out of 5]

Would not recommend this book-- if you have it, definitely utilize other peer-reviewed sources to make more sense of each assessment style.