Assessment Strategies
What is the ASQ-3 assessment?
The Ages & Stages Questionnaire is a developmental screening tool utilized to pinpoint developmental progress in children between the ages of one month to 5 ½ years.
Evidence shows that the earlier development is assessed—the greater the chance a child has to reach his or her potential.
ASQ-3 questionnaires
- are available in Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Spanish, and Vietnamese
- take just 10–15 minutes for parents to complete and 2–3 minutes for professionals to score
- capture parents’ in-depth knowledge
- highlight a child’s strengths as well as concerns
- teach parents about child development and their own child’s skills
- highlight results that fall in a “monitoring zone,” to make it easier to keep track of children at risk
- can be completed at home, in a waiting room, during a home visit, etc.
Why is assessment important?
Assessment provides educators, parents/families with information about a child’s development and growth. Utilizing assessment can:
- Provide a record of growth in all developmental areas: cognitive, physical/motor, language, social-emotional, and approaches to learning.
- Identify children who may need additional support and determine if there is a need for intervention or support services.
- Help educators plan individualized instruction for a child or for a group of children that are at the same stage of development.
- Identify the strengths and weaknesses within a program and information on how well the program meets the goals and needs of the children.
- Provide a common ground between educators and parents or families to use in collaborating on a strategy to support their child.
Classroom monitoring with TS GOLD
The assessment model in the classrooms at the Child Development Center is TS GOLD. This model follows widely held expectations for children from birth through third grade. Color-coded progressions guide teachers toward selecting and adapting activities that support each child’s development and learning. Meaningful reports inform classroom practices and individualized instruction on a wide range of topics/behaviors, such as:
- Social-Emotional
- Regulates own emotions and behaviors
- Establishes and sustains positive relationships
- Participates cooperatively and constructively in group situations
- Physical
- Demonstrates traveling skills
- Demonstrates balancing skills
- Demonstrates gross-motor manipulative skills
- Demonstrates fine-motor strength and coordination
- Language
- Listens to and understands increasingly complex language
- Uses language to express thoughts and needs
- Uses appropriate conversational and other communication skills
- Cognitive
- Demonstrates positive approaches to learning
- Remembers and connects experiences
- Uses classification skills
- Uses symbols and images to represent something not present
- Literacy
- Demonstrates phonological awareness, phonics skills, and word recognition
- Demonstrates knowledge of the alphabet
- Demonstrates knowledge of print and its uses
- Comprehends and responds to books and other texts
- Demonstrates writing skills
- Mathematics
- Uses number concepts and operations
- Explores and describes spatial relationships and shapes
- Compares and measures
- Demonstrates knowledge of patterns
- Science & Technology
- Uses scientific inquiry skills
- Demonstrates knowledge of the characteristics of living things
- Demonstrates knowledge of the physical properties of objects and materials
- Demonstrates knowledge of Earth’s environment
- Uses tools and other technology to perform tasks
- Social Studies
- Demonstrates knowledge about self
- Shows basic understanding of people and how they live
- Explores change related to familiar people or places
- Demonstrates simple geographic knowledge
- The Arts
- Explores the visual arts
- Explores musical concepts and expression
- Explores dance and movement concepts
- Explores drama through actions and language
- English Language Acquisition
- Demonstrates progress in listening to and understanding English
- Demonstrates progress in speaking English
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