Skills and Knowledge to Carry Out Developmentally Appropriate Assessment

Meisels (1993) describes the skills and knowledge that teachers need to carry out developmentally appropriate assessment:

To carry out the necessary responsibilities, teachers must acquire understanding and skills in collecting authentic evidence by observing children in a representative range of classroom behaviors, recording the data as objectively as possible, organizing the information, reflecting on what the data means, and using assessment findings effectively (Nebraska Department of Education & Iowa Department of Education, 1993). Assessment findings should be used for the purposes outlined in the major purposes of assessment.

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