Testing for Intelligence?

Childhood assessment is a process of gathering information about a child, reviewing the information, and then using the information to plan educational activities that are at a level the child can understand and is able to learn from (Department of Early Education and Care, n.d.). Majority of schools here in America plan their teaching curriculum around school testing assessment instead of what a child needs to learn to succeed. I think that assessments are a double-edged sword because it can be helpful to a child/student and it can be detrimental to them as well. Teacher should use the information to develop methods to better enhance their teaching abilities and the learning abilities of their students. The results of the assessments should be discussing with families to assist in helping the child in their weak areas.

I decided to view to country of Turkey to see how they view childhood assessment.

Turkey

-Conduct standardized testing three times a year

-Measure a child’s performance differences on task as to representing theoretical construct

-Authentic assessment that evaluated using real-life events

-Use assessments to form developmental checklist

There was not a lot of information on the early childhood assessment in Turkey. Above are some of the major things that they use to assess their children. I did discover that they use their assessment more towards truly assessing the child in the hope of further developing the child in their learning abilities.

Reference:

Department of Early Education and Care. (n.d.). Early Childhood Assessment: Resources for Early Learning. Retrieved from http://resourcesforearlylearning.org/fm/early-childhood-assessment/