Publication
Insights – Assessment
- Published on: 24 September 2020
- Last updated on: 17 August 2022
- Assessment: A focus on Parents
- Assessment: A focus on infant classes in primary schools
- Assessment: A focus on Early Years Practitioners
This series explores assessment as an ongoing process of collecting, documenting, reflecting on and using information to develop rich portraits of young children’s learning. It highlights effective assessment practices observed in Early Learning and Care settings which are equally appropriate in early primary school.
Assessment: A focus on Parents
- Guide to Early Years Education Inspections
- Education Inspection Reports and Publications, Early Years Education Reports
- Aistear, Síolta Practice Guide Information Booklet: Planning and assessing for children’s learning and development (birth-6 years)
- Sharing curriculum updates with parents (3-6 years)
- Documenting children’s learning and development (birth to 6 years)
- Self-evaluation Tool, Planning and Assessing using Aistear's themes (Birth-6 years)
- Using a Key Person approach
Assessment: A focus on infant classes in primary schools
- Guide to Early Years Education Inspections
- Education Inspection Reports and Publications, Early Years Education Reports
- Assessment in the Primary School Curriculum, Guidelines for Schools (2007, NCCA)
- Assessing Early Learning through Formative Assessment, Elizabeth Dunphy, 2008, NCCA
- Aistear Síolta Practice Guidelines for Good Practice; Supporting Learning and Development through Assessment
Assessment: A focus on Early Years Practitioners
- Guide to Early Years Education Inspections
- Education Inspection Reports and Publications, Early Years Education Reports
- Aistear, Síolta Practice Guide Information Booklet: Planning and assessing for children’s learning and development (birth-6 years)
- Sharing curriculum updates with parents (3-6 years)
- Documenting children’s learning and development (birth to 6 years)
- Self-evaluation Tool, Planning and Assessing using Aistear's themes (Birth-6 years)
- Using a Key Person approach