Infant-Toddler Teachers Can Successfully Employ Authentic Assessment: The "Learning through Relating" System

Autor/inn/en	Moreno, Amanda J.; Klute, Mary M.
Titel	Infant-Toddler Teachers Can Successfully Employ Authentic Assessment: The "Learning through Relating" System
Quelle	In: Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 26 (2011) 4, S.484-496 (13 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0885-2006
DOI	10.1016/j.ecresq.2011.02.005
Schlagwörter	Performance Based Assessment; Disadvantaged Youth; Caregivers; Toddlers; Infants; Sample Size; Teachers; Reliability; Validity; Predictive Validity; Child Care; Statistical Significance; Regression (Statistics); Predictive Measurement; Federal Programs; Early Childhood Education; Preschool Children; Low Income + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Leistungsermittlung; Benachteiligter Jugendlicher; Caregiver; Carer; Betreuungsperson; Pfleger; Infant; Infants; Toddler; Kleinkind; Toddlers; Lehrer; Lehrerin; Lehrende; Reliabilität; Gültigkeit; Kinderfürsorge; Kinderbetreuung; Regression; Regressionsanalyse; Early childhood; Education; Frühkindliche Bildung; Frühpädagogik; Pre-school age; Preschool age; Child; Children; Pre-school education; Preschool education; Vorschulalter; Kind; Kinder; Vorschulkind; Vorschulkinder; Vorschulerziehung; Vorschule; Niedriglohn
Abstract	This study documents the reliability and validity of a new infant-toddler authentic assessment, the Learning Through Relating Child Assets Record (LTR-CAR), and its feasibility of use by infant-toddler caregivers in an Early Head Start program. In a sample of 136 children, results indicated a strong internal structure of the LTR-CAR as evidenced by high internal consistency within age bands, expected performance in terms of the order of difficulty of items, and expected performance relative to the chronological ages of children. Moreover, the LTR-CAR accounted for a statistically significant amount of unique variance (between 6 and 26%), over and above age and gender, in six out of eight regressions predicting criterion measures. Given the increasing numbers of infants and toddlers in non-parental care, the need for authentic assessment as a tool to plan meaningful learning opportunities, as well as the lack of evidence-based authentic assessment options at the infant-toddler level, the LTR-CAR may provide a viable option for the field. (Contains 9 tables.) (As Provided).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10