Assessment in Early Childhood Settings : Learning Stories

by Margaret Carr

• ISBN13: 9780761967934
• ISBN10: 0761967931
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2001-07-23
• Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd

Summary

This book shows that an early childhood setting can be described as a learning place in which children develop learning dispositions such as resilience in the face of uncertainty, confidence to express their ideas, and collaborative and thoughtful approaches to problem-solving. These dispositions provide the starting point for life-long learning.The author asks: How can we assess and track children's learning in the early years in a way that includes learning dispositions and avoids the pitfalls of over-formal methods, whilst being helpful for practitioners, interesting for families, and supportive for learners?The book· describes a way of assessment that stays close to the children'sr

Table of Contents

Preface	ix
A folk model of assessment - and an alternative	1	(20)
Learning dispositions	21	(27)
Interest and involvement	48	(16)
Persisting with difficulty and uncertainty	64	(13)
Communicating with others and taking responsibility	77	(15)
Learning stories	92	(14)
Describing	106	(19)
Discussing	125	(12)
Documenting	137	(21)
Deciding	158	(17)
The learning story journey	175	(14)
References	189	(9)
Index	198