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Scholarly Articles Related to Observation and Assessment in ECE
- What is documentation doing? Early childhood education teachers shifting from and between the meanings and actions of documentation practicesThis article offers original contributions to contemporary debates regarding agentive readings of documentation practices that can influence forms of ethical and flourishing pedagogies in a policy climate that can otherwise confine.
- Mobile Documentation: Making the Learning Process Visible to FamiliesThe authors explored one kindergarten teacher's yearlong approach to using Seesaw, a digital portfolio app, to make the process of early literacy learning in the classroom more visible to families/caregivers. Ultimately, this teacher's approach to digital documentation aimed to move the conversation between school and home from what is being learned to how learning happens, offering rich invitations for families/caregivers to engage in the literacy learning process alongside their children.
- Getting to Know Young Children: Alternative Assessments in Early Childhood EducationAssessments provide teachers with essential information regarding children’s learning. Alternative education systems offer insight into ways that assessments can be redesigned to be developmentally appropriate to particular ages, including unique stances on what defines assessment, who should assess, and what should be assessed.
Learning Modules
- CT Office of Early Childhood: Observing, Documenting, and AssessingThis excerpt from The Connecticut Core Knowledge and Competency Framework for Professionals Working with
Young Children and Their Families contains valuable insight into the observation, documentation, and assessment cycles. - ECE 200 Observation and AssessmentThis course focuses on the appropriate use of assessment and observation tools and strategies to document young children's development and learning, emphasizing the use of findings to inform and plan learning environments and experiences.
- UMass Boston Open CourseWare - Observation, Assessment, & DocumentationThis module will support educators in understanding the role of observation and documentation in the classroom. It will also go over how to adapt curricula to meet individual needs of children.