Ongoing Child Assessment: Overview
This in-service suite provides an overview of the role ongoing assessment plays in supporting quality teaching and learning.
Child Screening and Assessment
Screening and assessment provide valuable information about each child's interests, strengths, and needs. Screening gives a snapshot of whether the child's development is on track. Assessment is an ongoing process that includes observation and provides information about development over time. Systematic, ongoing child assessment provides information on children's development and learning. It helps inform curriculum planning, teaching, and individualizing for each child across all Head Start Early Learning Outcomes Framework domains.
Ongoing Child Assessment: A Guide for Program Leaders
Learn how program leaders can use ongoing child assessment activities—Prepare, Collect, Aggregate and Analyze, and Use and Share—to support children's development and learning at different program levels.
Identifying the Lenses Through Which Staff and Families Observe Children
Learn ways to help education staff and families be mindful that many things can influence what they notice and how they interpret their observations about infants and toddlers.
What Is Observation?
Learn how observing children is a key part of what education staff in Head Start infant toddler programs do daily. Observation involves focus, purpose, and watching and listening to learn about individual children.
Child Observation: The Heart of Individualizing Responsive Care for Infants and Toddlers
Learn about ways to observe infants and toddlers—a key part of the ongoing child assessment cycle. Explore strategies to support this important component of quality infant and toddler care.
Using Ongoing Child Assessment to Support Effective Teaching Practices
In this episode of Teacher Time, learn about the ongoing assessment process. Discover ways to collect, analyze, and use data to inform and improve infant and toddler teaching practices.
Ongoing Assessment for Children Ages Birth to 5
In this tip sheet, learn about ways to plan and implement ongoing assessment procedures and practices. Also, find relevant Head Start Program Performance Standards and resources.
Developmental Screening for Children Ages Birth to 5
Explore information about developmental screening, selecting screening tools, process, timing, and more.
Special Considerations: Developmental Screening of Children Ages Birth to 5 Who Are Dual Language Learners (DLLs)
Discover key strategies program leaders should consider when screening children who are dual language learners (DLLs).
Gathering and Sharing Child Assessment Data
Use this learning module in professional development settings. Learn more about ongoing child assessments, and find out how to gather data and share it with families.