Cassey Current- ECE 190-Assignment #6-Position Paper Assessing Early Learning Environments and Testing
Understanding the way that children learn, develop, and grow from birth into school age helps to assess children in early learning programs. Starting as early as Kindergarten children are being tested into school districts. Children are expected to prove what they know testing, and meeting standards for the state. I do not agree with this approach to assessment.
Assessing a child’s development takes time. A teacher can really only get a sense of what a child knows over time. Taking documentation; observations, notes, pictures of the child’s work helps to assess the child. Teachers can then form curriculum that …show more content…
Having a child that is 4 years old take a pen to paper bubble sheet test may result in low scores. From the reading it goes over a testing approach for young children testing the child one-to-one (face to face) to see what the child knows. The teacher asks the child questions and writes down the answers. This still may cause the child to be nervous and anxious and answer incorrectly. I personally have experienced a child whom was ready for Kindergarten from my preschool class take an assessment test and fail. This child by normal standards was ready for Kindergarten. She is developmentally ready beyond all her peers in class. When going to take the test she told me she was nervous. She stated she didn’t understand some of the questions. I asked her what was a questions she was confused about. She then tells me the question. Where does milk comes from? She responded to the question with the answer (the store.) Well that is correct, but they were looking for a more precise answer like (cow.) These types of questions held her back from going into Kindergarten when she was ready. She was held her back in my Preschool for another year. That comes with pros and cons as well. I became creative with her mother and made curriculum that met her needs of further