ASSESSMENT AND EVALUATION IN EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION

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To monitor children’s progress and support their development, assessment and evaluation play an important role in early childhood education. Considering developmental changes in this period, in early childhood education uses various types of assessment and evaluation approaches which differ from the approaches other educational levels used for assessment. Formal, informal, alternative and performance based assessment are widely used approaches in the early childhood education. These approaches are often translated into Turkish from the global literature sometimes lead to concepts contradictions. For this reason, this review study aims to describe the common approaches and concepts related to early childhood assessment and evaluation. The widespread approaches and concepts including formal, informal and alternative evaluation were discussed. In this context, the methods and tools used to assess children’s development were presented with examples of teachers and experts in the area.

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Early childhood education , formal assessment , informal assessment , alternative assessment

Abant İzzet Baysal Üniversitesi Eğitim Fakültesi Dergisi

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Abant İzzet Baysal Üniversitesi Eğitim Fakültesi Dergisi