ECD 405 Assignment 3

ECD 405

Determining Appropriate Assessments

[WLOs: 3, 4] [CLOs: 1, 2, 3]

o prepare for your assignment

• Please refer to the Week 3 Instructor Guidance for tips and examples that will support your success on this assignment.
• Review previous readings from the learning week.
• Review the interactive ECD405 Week 3 Discussion Objective & Assessment Alignment Self-check.
• Review the ECD 405 Week 3 Assignment Template.
• Choose a lesson to watch based on the age of children you plan to work with. You will use this video again in Week 4 and Week 5 of the course.
  • Infant: Infant Observation (Links to an external site.)
  • Toddler: Relationship Building (Links to an external site.)
  • Preschooler: One Morning in the Block Area
  • Part 1: Assessment Decisions
    • State the name of the video you watched.
    • Discuss what you believe the goal or objective was for the lesson in the video.
      • Provide at least two pieces of evidence from the video that helped you to determine the goal or objective.
      • Include the CDC’s Your Baby at 2 Months (Links to an external site.) milestone checklist or the California State Board of Education’s Content Standards (Links to an external site.) that align with the lesson goal or objective.
    • Explain which informal and formal assessment tool you think would be best for assessing the learning of the lesson or activity in the video.
      • Provide a rationale.
    • Describe how your chosen assessment tools allow for alignment between the lesson goal or objective and the assessment.
    • Summarize how you would make sure the assessments you developed are reliable and valid

    Part 2: Assessment Implementation

    • Choose one child in the video you watched to focus on.
    • Develop, for the child you chose in the video, an informal and formal assessment that aligns with the goal or objective in the lesson or activity from the video.
    • Complete both of the assessments you created based on what you observed of the child’s learning in the video.
    • Include both completed assessments in your assignment.

    The Determining Appropriate Assessments paper

    • Must be four to five double-spaced pages in length (not including title and references pages) and formatted according to APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center’s APA Style (Links to an external site.)
    • Must include a separate title page with the following:
      • Title of paper
      • Student’s name
      • Course name and number
      • Instructor’s name
      • Date submitted

    For further assistance with the formatting and the title page, refer to APA Formatting for Word 2013 (Links to an external site.).

    • Must utilize academic voice. See the Academic Voice (Links to an external site.) resource for additional guidance.
    • Must include an introduction and conclusion paragraph. Your introduction paragraph needs to end with a clear thesis statement that indicates the purpose of your paper.
      • For assistance on writing Introductions & Conclusions (Links to an external site.) as well as Writing a Thesis Statement (Links to an external site.), refer to the Ashford Writing Center resources.
    • Must use at least three scholarly, peer-reviewed, or credible sources in addition to the course text.
      • The Scholarly, Peer-Reviewed, and Other Credible Sources (Links to an external site.) table offers additional guidance on appropriate source types. If you have questions about whether a specific source is appropriate for this assignment, please contact your instructor. Your instructor has the final say about the appropriateness of a specific source for a particular assignment.
      • To assist you in completing the research required for this assignment, view this Ashford University Library Quick ‘n’ Dirty (Links to an external site.) tutorial, which introduces the Ashford University Library and the research process, and provides some library search tips.
    • Must document any information used from sources in APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center’s Citing Within Your Paper (Links to an external site.)
    • Must include a separate references page that is formatted according to APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center. See the Formatting Your References List (Links to an external site.) resource in the Ashford Writing Center for specifications.