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Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
1. What is assessment for?
1. Check your understanding
2. Extend your understanding
3. Apply your understanding
2. How does assessment support all learners?
1. Check your understanding
2. Extend your understanding
3. Apply your understanding
Resources
1. The following resources describe how to create learning stories and provide examples:
Carr, M., and W. Lee (2012), Learning Stories: Constructing Learner Identities in Early Education, London: SAGE.
Drummond, T. (n.d.). Examples of Learning Stories. Available online: https://tomdrummond.com/looking-closely-at-children/examples/ (accessed 20 January 2018).
Ministry of Education (2004). An Introduction to Kei Tua o te Pae. Available online: http://www.education.govt.nz/assets/Documents/Early-Childhood/Kei-Tua-o-te-Pae/ECEBooklet1Full.pdf
2. The following resources expand on the notion of pedagogical documentation:
Dahlberg, G., Moss, P. & Pence, A. (2007). Beyond quality in early childhood education and care. London: Falmer Press.
Fleet, A., Patterson, C., & Robertson, J. (2017), ‘Pedagogical documentation in early years practice: Seeing through multiple perspectives,’ London: SAGE.
Macdonald, M., & Sánchez, A. (2010), ‘Provoking Dialogue: Promote a Deeper Understanding of Teaching and Learning Through Images and Documents’, Journal of Childhood Studies, 35(2): 25–30.
Merewether, J. (2018), ‘Listening to Young Children Outdoors with Pedagogical Documentation’, International Journal of Early Years Education, 26:3, 259-277. DOI: 10.1080/09669760.2017.1421525
Wien, C.A. (2011), ‘Learning to Document in Reggio-inspired Education’, Early Childhood Research and Practice, 13(2). Available online: http://ecrp.uiuc.edu/v13n2/wien.html
3. These resources give some practical information on assessment in early childhood:
Gullo, D. (2005), Understanding Assessment and Evaluation in Early Childhood, New York, NY: Teachers College Press.
Sargent, M. (2013), ‘Assessment in the Early Years’. Available online: http://earlyyearsclassroom.com/a4l-article.php
4. The following articles provide more theoretical information on assessment:
Brogaard Clausen, S. (2015), ‘Schoolification or Early Years Democracy? A Cross-Curricular Perspective from Denmark and England,’ Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood, 16(4): 355 –373. DOI: 0.1177/1463949115616327
Buzzelli, C.A. (2018), ‘The Moral Dimensions of Assessment in Early Childhood Education,’Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood 2018, 19(2) 154 –166. DOI: 10.1177/1463949118778021
Drummond, M. J. (2012), Assessing Children’s Learning, London: David Fulton.
Rameka, L.K. (2011), ‘Being Māori: Culturally Relevant Assessment in Early Childhood Education,” Early Years, 31(3): 245-256, DOI: 10.1080/09575146.2011.614222
Siraj-Blatchford, I. (2004), ‘Educational Disadvantage in the Early Years: How do we Overcome it? Some Lessons from Research,’ European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, 12(2): 5–19. DOI: 10.1080/13502930485209391
Wrigley, T., and Wormwell, L. (2016), ‘Infantile Accountability: When Big Data Meet Small Children,’ Improving Schools, 19(2): 105 –118. DOI: 10.1177/1365480216651520