Assessing Young Children’s Development and Learning: Birth to Age Eight - Couverture souple

Julie A. Ray

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1071914286 ISBN 13 : 9781071914281

Editeur : SAGE Publications, Inc, 2026

Synopsis

Assessing Young Children's Development and Learning: Birth to Age Eight 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 broad range of assessment strategies, from observation to formalized assessments and demonstrates how to adapt these methods for a wide variety of students while incorporating feedback from families. Aligned with the latest 2020 National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC) standards, it offers clear guidance for future educators on licensing requirements and supports instructors in meeting program accreditation goals. Author Julie A. Ray begins each chapter with a vignette highlighting the importance of assessment in real classrooms and concludes with three case studies, one for infants, one for preschoolers, and one for primary-grade students, addressing the unique challenges in each setting. To further support learning, a final project in the Appendix with a scoring rubric can be used for grading or accreditation tasks. Exercises throughout the text help students confidently apply assessment skills in a wide variety of early childhood educational settings.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

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.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: SAGE Publications, Inc
• Date d'édition: 2026
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1071914286
• ISBN 13: 9781071914281
• Reliure: Broché
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 400
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible