ECED 0140 - Observation and Assessment in Early Childhood

3 Credit Hours

The Observation and Assessment in Early Childhood course introduces methods of observing, documenting, and assessing children’s learning from 0 to age 8 in the context of cultural and developmental variations. Students are introduced to learning standards and assessment tools for evaluating safe and healthy indoor and outdoor learning environments, adult-child interaction, and child developmental skills. Students will create a professional report including formative and summative assessments, checklists, work samples, pictures, and interviews. The course requires five observational visits to a variety of early childhood settings Early childhood programs must be a licensed family, group, center, Head Start, faith-based, public, or private pre-k -grade-3 settings. Observation visits total ten hours (two hours each).