Bridging: Assessment for Teaching and Learning in Early Childhood Classrooms, PreK-3

by Gillian Dowley McNamee

"Blends holistic authentic assessment with purposeful, specific assessment experiences that are also child and classroom friendly."
--Vicki Hawley, Early Literacy Training Project Coordinator
Center for Early Education and Development
University of Minnesota

"Explains the research base, the reason for the assessment process, and current trends in assessment practices for early childhood education, and offers easy-to-use...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1412950104
• ISBN13: 9781412950107
• Release Date: June 2007
• Publisher: Corwin Publishers
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 2.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 8.5" x 10.8"

Customer Reviews

Authentic Assessment

Bridging makes a significant contribution to formative assessment of young children's learning. The protocols look not simply at achievement but also at the child's affect and have built in a developmental scale that recognizes the importance of process and continuous growth. It also recognizes that each child has her or his unique profile of strengths and challenges--we do children a disservice by looking only for performance in mathematics, for example, without seeing how it maps with emerging literacy skills.