Tip Sheet: Using Early Learning Guidelines for Assessment

Introducing It: Using the Early Learning Guidelines to Track Development for Assessment talks about ways to track child development. It discusses two different sets of early learning guidelines that educators can refer to.

Tip Sheet: The Authentic Assessment Cycle

Download Introducing It: The Authentic Assessment Cycle and Its Role in Early Childhood Education to learn the hallmarks of Authentic Assessment. This Tip Sheet also explores the Authentic Assessment cycle, and it explains how data is used to shape further instruction.

NEW! Tip Sheet on Authentic Assessment

Authentic Assessment is recommended practice because it allows educators to gain a holistic picture of a child’s development. Our latest Tip Sheet is called Introducing It: The Authentic Assessment Cycle and Its Role in Early Childhood Education. It explores the Authentic Assessment cycle, and it explains how data is used to shape further instruction.

Fundamentals of authentic assessment

Program Quality Specialist Margarita Milenova, PhD, answers some common questions that teachers, administrators and parents have about assessments.

How Can We Capture What Kids Really Know?

This post from the 2019 Minnesota Early Intervention Summer Institute draws on the session, Flipping Your Assessment Practices from Standardized to Personalized.