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Assessment: Authentic Strategies For Early Childhood Education, Gail Ann Hathaway Tupper
Assessment: Authentic Strategies For Early Childhood Education, Gail Ann Hathaway Tupper
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This thesis explores the relationship between assessment techniques and reporting procedures in early childhood settings. Discrepancies between curriculum being presented and skills and progress being reported are examined.
The curriculum used in this study is Portland Public Schools' Piaget Curriculum, which stresses active, scientific problem solving for children 4 to 6 years old. A variety of assessment, observation, recording and reporting tools are suggested, implemented and critiqued. Creation of a portfolio to store and showcase these items is suggested and explained.
The important role of parents and families in the assessment process is studied. Strategies for involving parents at all …
A Classroom Preferences Questionnaire Based On The Theory Of Multiple Intelligences, Allyn Snider
A Classroom Preferences Questionnaire Based On The Theory Of Multiple Intelligences, Allyn Snider
Dissertations and Theses
A questionnaire based on Gardner's Theory of Multiple Intelligences was developed and administered to forty-five second grade students in three different classrooms. Sections of the fifty-eight item questionnaire dealt with students' preferences for certain classroom activities, methods of learning, and modes of social interaction. Each student's responses were summarized to create an individual profile, indicating preference for linguistic, mathematical, and/ or spatial activity. In addition, students' preferences for receptive and/ or expressive methods of learning, and for working by themselves, with peers, or with adults were profiled.
Student Attitudes And Feelings About Standardized Tests And Parent Observations Of Behavior During Testing : A Survey Of Third Grade Students And Their Parents, Candace Ann Iseminger
Student Attitudes And Feelings About Standardized Tests And Parent Observations Of Behavior During Testing : A Survey Of Third Grade Students And Their Parents, Candace Ann Iseminger
Dissertations and Theses
This study was a descriptive study of student attitudes toward standardized tests and parent observations of behaviors during the testing process. A total of 87 third grade students and their parents were surveyed. predominately white and middle class. The students were The school settings consisted of parochial elementary schools.