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Assessment Techniques

Portfolios are a widely recommended way to assess the work and document the progress of students of all ages. Allowing children to examine work and reflect on its quality as they help select materials for inclusion is an important part of portfolios use (e.g., Klimenkov & LaPick, 1996, Moening & Bhavnagri, 1996: Paris & Ayres, 1994). Children are able to look back on their earlier work and to reflect proudly upon their progress. The child who says she wants to include a piece in his/her portfolio because "I did it good," or who looks back on earlier work and sees the he/she now can write more neatly, experience a real sense of accomplishment. In addition, portfolios are useful as a focus for parent conferences, as the provide concrete demonstrations of children's progress and allow parents to better appreciate and understand their children's work.

Assessment Alternatives Used In Our School 

    Short Answer, open-ended:
Any item or task that requires the production of a short written or verbal answer response on the part of the respondent.

    Observation:
An assessment technique that requires the student to perform a task while being observed and rated using an agreed upon set of scoring criteria.

    Interview:
An assessment technique in which the student responds to verbal questions form the assessor.

    Individual Performance Assessment:
Any assessment that requires the student to perform (in a way that can be observed) an assessment task alone. For example, a student may be asked to explain an illustration in a book and asked how it correlates with the lesson taught.

    Group Performance Assessment:
Any assessment that requires students to perform the assessment task in a group setting. For example, a performance assessment as defined in individual performance assessment becomes a group performance assessment when the task is performed in a group and the individual's rating is based on his/her performance as part of the group.

    Extended Response, open-ended:
Any item or task that requires to produce and extended written response to an item or task that does not have one right answer (for example, a picture drawing or storybook illustration by the student).

    Portfolio:
An accumulation of a student's work over time that demonstrates growth toward the mastery of specific performance criteria against which the task included in the portfolio can be judged.

Early Childhood Development Checklist

Below is a checklist that Sawgrass Elementary will be using to see how your child is growing developmental. These assessments are done three times a year, in October, January, and April. This is put on this website so that you may work with your child at home and see that he/she reaches his/her fullest potential.

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