Kearns Assessments

The Kearns team has been hard at work developing a new assessments pack, which will be available exclusively from Cengage when the CHC20 training package is released later this year. Available for both the Certificate III and Diploma of Early Childhood Education and Care, the Kearns Assessments is a collection of assessment tasks that are designed to be used alongside the Kearns texts, and are mapped against the units of competency for the new CHC20 training package.

Get your first look at the new Kearns Assessments for the Certificate III in Early Childhood. This is collection of assessment tasks that have been mapped against the units of competency for the new CHC Training Package. The team aims to meet the requirements of the Training Package, while also meeting the needs of the beginning educator. For each unit of competency, the customer will receive: · Knowledge tasks · Workplace tasks · Observation tasks · A mapping grid

Get your first look at the new Kearns Assessments for the Certificate III in Early Childhood. This is collection of assessment tasks that have been mapped against the units of competency for the new CHC Training Package. The team aims to meet the requirements of the Training Package, while also meeting the needs of the beginning educator. For each unit of competency, the customer will receive: · Knowledge tasks · Workplace tasks · Observation tasks · A mapping grid

This finely curated collection of thirteen chapters presents ideas and research on different disability topics from key leaders in the field of the assessment of children with disabilities. They help us to properly understand and compare traditional and innovative assessment techniques for students with disabilities.

The importance of student assessment, particularly for summative purposes, has increased greatly over the past thirty years. At the same time, emphasis on including all students in assessment programs has also increased. Assessment programs, whether they are large-scale, district-based, or teacher developed, have traditionally attempted to assess students using a single instrument administered to students under the same conditions. Educators and test developers, however, are increasingly acknowledging that this practice does not result in valid information, inferences, and decisions for all students. This problem is particularly true for students in the margins, whose characteristics and needs differ from what the public thinks of as the general population of students. Increasingly, educators, educational leaders, and test developers are seeking strategies, techniques, policies, and guidelines for assessing students for whom standard assessment instruments do not function well. Whether used for high-stakes decisions or classroom-based formative decisions, the most critical element of any educational assessment is validity. Developing and administering assessment instruments that provide valid measures and allow for valid inferences and decisions for all groups of students presents a major challenge for today’s assessment programs. Over the past few decades, several national policies have sparked research and development efforts that aim to increase test validity for students in the margins. This book explores recent developments and efforts in three important areas. The first section focuses on strategies for improving test validity through the provision of test accommodations. The second section focuses on alternate and modified assessments. Federal policies now allow testing programs to develop and administer alternate assessments for students who have not been exposed to grade-level content, and thus are not expected to demonstrate proficiency on grade-level assessments. A separate policy allows testing programs to develop modified assessments that will provided more useful information about achievement for a small percentage of students who are exposed to grade-level content but for whom the standard form of the grade-level test does not provide a valid measure of achievement. These policies are complex and can be confusing for educators who are not familiar with their details. The chapters in the second section unpack these policies and explore the implications these policies have for test design. The third and final section of the book examines how principles of Universal Design can be applied to improve test validity for all students. Collectively, this volume presents a comprehensive examination of the several issues that present challenges for assessing the achievement of all students. While our understanding of how to overcome these challenges continues to evolve, the lessons, strategies, and avenues for future research explored in this book empower educators, test developers, and testing programs with a deeper understanding of how we can improve assessments for students in the margins.