13. Assessment

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Reflective Activities

• To consider how successful you are at involving families in the assessment processes in your setting
• To reflect upon the impact of practitioner views of children
• To reflect upon how you involve children in decision-making on issues which affect their lives
• To reflect upon how children in your setting are supported to develop and practise the skills of self and peer assessment

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Further Reading

Overview

Luff, P. (2012) Challenging Assessment, In T. Papatheodorou and J. Moyles (Eds.) Cross-cultural Perspectives on Early Childhood, London: Sage.

Featherstone, S. (2011) Catching Them at It!: Assessment in the Early Years, London: Bloomsbury.

Glazzard, J. (2010) Assessment for Learning in the Early Years Foundation Stage, Los Angeles: Sage Publications.

Broadfoot, P. (2007) An Introduction to Assessment, London: Continuum.

Johnson, S. (2012) Assessing Learning in the Primary Classroom, Abingdon: Routledge.

Gardner, J. (Ed.) (2012) Assessment and Learning (2^nd edition), London: Sage Publications.

Carr, M. (2001) Assessment in Early Childhood Settings: Learning Stories, London: Paul Chapman.

Carr, M. and Lee, W. (2012) Learning Stories: Constructing Learner Identities in Early Education, London: Sage Publications.

 Luff, P. and Pryor, R. (2009) Enhancing learning? Exploring the use of assessment methods as pedagogical tools to promote effective learning and teaching in early childhood studies. PRIME (Pedagogical Research in Maximising Education) Volume 3, Issue 2: Proceedings of the PRHE Conference, pp. 79-88. 

Useful links

• see Ch. 9 "Towards a Listening ECEC system" for more on Mosaic Approach

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Diagrams and Figures

• Figure 13.1 Pen Green Learning Loop