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ED359248 TM020017
Title: Validation of a Developmentally Appropriate Assessment System for Early Childhood Education.
Author(s): Schattgen, Sharon Ford
Pages: 25
Publication Date: April 1993
Notes: Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the National Council on Measurement in Education (Atlanta, GA, April 13-15, 1993).
Available from: EDRS Price MF01/PC01 Plus Postage.
Language: English
Document Type: Reports--Research (143); Speeches/meeting papers (150)
Geographic Source: U.S.; Missouri
Journal Announcement: RIENOV1993
Initial efforts
to validate a developmentally appropriate assessment system for
use with children aged 3 to 7 years are described. The Project Construct
Assessment System is part of a comprehensive framework for curriculum
and assessment that is predicated on the theory that children construct
their own knowledge. It features a variety of performance-based
methods that can be used to monitor students' progress on 26 curricular
goals. Extensive validation procedures, which include traditional
methods as well as newer approaches proposed specifically for performance
assessments, have been incorporated into the construction of the
assessment system. Initially, 15 members of a statewide advisory
group of educators evaluated the specifications for the instrument.
Parts were pilot tested by over 100 teachers, and the proposed Goals
for Students of the project were validated through a survey responded
to by 647 early childhood teachers and school administrators in
Missouri (represents a 38 percent response rate). The development
of the Project Construct Assessment System demonstrates that consensus
between measurement specialists and educators from other fields
can be achieved through collaboration. One table presents information
about the validation survey. Appendixes contain the Goals for Students
and an example of a curriculum specification. (SLD)
Descriptors: Child Development; *Constructivism (Learning); Early
Childhood Education; Educational Assessment; Educational Cooperation;
Educational Objectives; Elementary School Teachers; Pilot Projects;
*Preschool Teachers; *Student Evaluation; Theory Practice Relationship;
*Young Children
Identifiers: Administrator Surveys; Curriculum Based Assessment;
Missouri; Performance Based Evaluation; *Project Construct Assessment
System; Teacher Surveys
