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IMPLEMENTATION OF EARLY
CHILDHOOD ASSESSMENTS
BY: JANIE SCHUTTE
EED 280
PREPARING FOR ADMINISTRATION
Assessor Training
Data quality reliant on appropriate training of assessor
Certification Process: May involve interviewers administering trainee, may also require a
specific score such as 85% or above
Scoring of certification can help in recognizing any problems that might be occurring in
administration
Issues that were identified in certification process:
Nonneutral encouragement of children, coaching, failure to allow for nonverbal
responding, deviation from the script developed to standardize administration, and
errors in scoring particular items in the assessment battery.. (pg. 286)
Feedback to assessors can help with assessment protocol
PREPARING FOR ADMINISTRATION
Information on costs to programs can be used as input into decisions for the future about the frequency of
assessments, whether assessments are conducted universally or for a sample of children, and whether
resources need to be made available to programs to cover the additional costs of assessments. (pg.298)
REFERENCE
Snow, C. E., & B., V. H. (2008). Early childhood assessment: Why, what,