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Spring 2021
Apr 30, 2024 |
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| Assessment and Evaluation in Early Childhood - 15236 - FCSC 3640 - OL1 |
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Associated Term: Spring 2021
Levels: Undergraduate, Undergraduate Second Degree, Undergraduate Third Degree, Licensure Only, Undergraduate Distance Learning Campus Lecture Schedule Type Web-Based Instructional Method Learning Objectives: Student Learning Outcomes: Upon successful completion of this course, students should be able to: 1. Identify strategies for facilitating the identification of concerns, priorities and resources for families of atypically developing children. 2. Create and evaluate family service plans that integrate identified child and family goals with resource options 3. Appreciate family concerns, priorities and resources for families from diverse cultural environments. 4. Observe, document, analyze, and utilize data gathered from and about children engaged in real, concrete, play-oriented activities in their own daily learning environments. 5. Explain the purpose, importance and limitations of screening, diagnosis, educational assessment and progress monitoring. 6. Effectively communicate with parents and other professionals the results of the naturalistic observations and/or screening and assessment batteries and the implication for decision- making and instructional planning 7. Compare and contrast typical and atypical development of children for the purpose of providing individual needs and guiding young children appropriately 8. Select different approaches for observing child/environment interactions; including play environments and daily routines 9. Apply different approaches for observing child/other interactions, including parent/child and child/child interactions 10. Analyze the administration, modification and interpretation of at least one instrument in each of several types of data collection (e.g. screening, developmental assessment, informant interview, behavior rating scales, anecdotal note-taking, play observation); 11. Execute comprehensive planning including effective and efficient use of time, incorporation of goal focused, analysis of daily activities, quality of interactions in the program and observations of individual children; 12. Evaluate and modify individual child education programs, strategies for working collaboratively with families, as well as total program goals. Required Materials: Assessing Young Children with Enhanced Pearson eText -- Access Card Package, 5/e Mindes & Jung ©2015 | Pearson | Paper Bound with Access Card; 368 pp ISBN-10: 0133831558 | ISBN-13: 9780133831559 Technical Requirements: Headsets with microphones or computers with built-in microphones are required for virtual sessions on Blackboard Collaborate (formerly Elluminate) almost every single week. Webcams are optional. View Catalog Entry
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