ECE 3500: Assessment in Early Childhood Education (2024-2025)

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This course focuses on the appropriate use of assessment and observation strategies to document development, growth, play and learning. Students will explore recording strategies, rating systems, portfolios, and multiple assessment tools ways that are ethically grounded and developmentally, culturally, ability, and linguistically appropriate to document developmental progress and promote positive outcomes for each child. Teachers will understand and use multiple methods of assessment to engage learners in their own growth, to monitor learner progress, and to guide the teacher’s and learner’s decision making. Typically offered: Spring.