Assessment Plan

Checklists

Rating Scales

Rubrics

Explain the assessment and how you can use it to evaluate the learning and development of children.

 These provide a list of skills and competencies that the children should have developed and they are marked in a yes/no format depending on the student demonstration to specific criteria. These can be used to evaluate learning by listing various developmental domains and the specific skills, observing the children and marking the skills that students have mastered.

They are organized in categories such as social/emotional, physical, cognitive and language.

 These allow teachers to indicate the degree or level of mastery of skills among the students. According to Wortham “these can be used by indicating that the child’s performance is bad, fair, good, very good and excellent (2015)”.

 These consist of a measurement scale that is fixed and a detailed description of the skills or characteristics for the various levels of performance. These rubrics can be used to determine whether students master skills such as critical thinking and problem-solving.

Discuss how the assessment is developed, including important considerations for each age group.

 All skills that the students should have developed at a certain age are included in the checklists. They are then marked for skills students have acquired.

According to Wortham “Recording Assessment (2015)”

 The skills and competencies that students should have developed are listed. Thereafter, a rating scale is attached to every skill to determine the level of students’ mastery. This may be from fair, good to excellent.

 A measurement scale is developed together with the characteristics for every performance level. For instance, a skill such as counting from 1 to 10 is specified, and a description of how well the students master it is included. Thereafter, marks are awarded according to the way students master the skills.

Explain one advantage of this assessment.

 Easy to use, teachers learn to use quickly, flexible in use

 They are simple and easy to understand

 Flexible, adaptable, provides guidelines for quality performance.

Explain one challenge with using this assessment.

 Time-consuming, do not indicate how well of a performance or the level of mastery of a skill.

 Highly subjective

 Difficult to design lacks reliability and validity (Rose, 2019).

Analyze how the assessment allows you to ensure the cultural and social needs of the children you work with are being met.

 The social/emotional domain of the checklists tests whether the children develop relationships with peers from different cultural groups, their level of social interaction with people from diverse backgrounds and whether they understand others.

 The rating scales assess the level of students’ interaction with each other.

Rubrics provide a detailed description of how the students' interaction with peers should be and the quality of their friendships with people from diverse backgrounds.