When considering a commitment to
viewing young children holistically starts with first creating a scale that can
allow them to be measured equally. Some
of the different elements that it takes to create that scale are so vast in
numbers that it will never be completely accurate measurements for
assessing. Working in a public school,
every time the standardized testing period comes around, this is a very big
topic that we discuss. Some teachers have EIP students with learning
disabilities, some teachers have gifted kids, some children are raised in
single parent homes, and some kids have several different resources available
to them to assist them with their day to day learning. Socioeconomic status,
academic ability, resource availability, as well as ethnicity, are all
different factors that are needed to be taken into consideration when
attempting to measure the child on a holistic scale. The child should be measured on their
language development, their cognitive development, on how quickly or how accurately
they can retrieve information, and also they should be measured on their
physical abilities at that particular age. Even though children may be of the same age.
They still have different levels of development and abilities. We have seen
this over and over again even at the infancy stages. So measuring their
development primarily may create a better scale of accurate assessment scores.
“In China, China’s skill
assessment system is more characterized with the planned economy, and
remains little reformed during
past over two decades. The ministry of education is the main body responsible
for assessment of formal educational outcomes and literacy. (Chinese and
mathematics
are test subjects, others are
checking subjects)”.
Most of China’s assessments as
well as the curriculum focuses on the Chinese economy. The students are taught
skills that will enhance their economic abilities in the later future.
Hi Whitney! I enjoyed reading your post. I'm learning so much as I read different post on how other countries assess children for intelligence.
ReplyDeleteWhitney, children do learn at different rates because of various reasons such as environment, nervousness, shyness and even a learning disability, no one test can measure this. As teachers we have to be more aware of these problems and take the time to make sure that each child is given the help they need.
ReplyDeleteWhitney, children do need to be assessed for development purposes to help teachers and parents plan goals for the them. I don't agree with some of the assessments being administered to children. I know in our country we use the standardized test method to measure what a child knows, but if that child has not been exposed to infrmation on the test they will not be successful.
ReplyDeleteWhitney, great post, and children do learn at different rates and levels, which makes our committment to holistically assessing them even harder because this takes time based on the number of children we have. But it si important in order for us to accurately measure their ability level and how well they take in the information presented to them.
ReplyDeleteWhitney,
ReplyDeleteI like that you are building on what you have started. Make sure to highlight or label the required posted for the course so that your classmates can find them easily! Good job! Dr. B.