Assessment of Young Children. School Entry Assessment reflects significant principles of assessment of young children. Assessment should be child-centred. Children must enjoy being involved in the procedure, and need some control over the nature and pace of the process. Assessment should take place in a meaningful context.
Process is as important as product.
The strategies that children use to solve problems can reveal as much as, or even more than, the accuracy of the response. Assessment should be useful to teachers. Assessment should be flexible, and provide teachers with understandings about the child that will contribute to broad curriculum decisions. Assessment should be grounded in research. Research should provide information to establish that the assessment tasks are appropriate and useful.