Julie A. Ray

Broschiertes Buch

Assessing Young Children's Development and Learning

Birth to Age Eight

Beschreibung

Assessing Young Children's Development and Learning: Birth to Age Eight by Julie A. Ray helps early childhood educators understand both the need for assessment as well as the process of assessment for infants, toddlers, and children up to age eight. This comprehensive text covers a wide range of assessment strategies, from observation to formalized assessments, and further, shows students how to adapt these assessments for a wide variety of students and incorporate feedback from families. Built around the latest National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC) standards from 2020, this text offers clear guidance to future educators for licensing requirements and to instructors for program accreditation. Each chapter opens with a vignette to demonstrate the importance of assessment for real classrooms. The chapters conclude with three case studies that apply the chapter¿s contents to each group of students: one for infants and toddlers, one for preschoolers, and one for primary-grade students. These case studies showcase each group¿s unique challenges and settings, providing additional instruction and assessment activities. The Appendix includes a final project and scoring rubric that could be used in course grading or to provide data for accreditation standards. Exercises and activities throughout help readers apply their knowledge, enabling them to confidently and competently assess students in a wide variety of early childhood educational settings.  

Autor

Julie A. Ray (Ph.D., University of Missouri, Columbia) is a professor emeritus of Early Childhood Education at Southeast Missouri State University. With 42 years' experience in teaching both young children and undergraduate / graduate early childhood assessment courses, she has seen major changes in the best practices of assessing children's development and learning. As a supervisor of clinical field experiences in the preschool and primary grades, she also observed many real life examples of the complexities in early childhood assessment. Ray is a longtime member of the National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC) and served as a higher education peer reviewer and auditor for programs seeking NAEYC accreditation.   This is her second early childhood textbook, as she is the co-author of Home, School, and Community Collaboration with Kathy Grant, now in its 5th edition.  These experiences and education have shaped and informed this textbook to be a comprehensive, yet practical guide to the subject of assessment of young children.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Sage Publications Inc Ebooks
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. April 2026
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 254mm x 203mm
• ISBN-13: 9781071914281
• ISBN-10: 1071914286
• Artikelnr.: 75126272