A Teacher-Designed Assessment Test

Teacher-designed assessments play a crucial role in understanding children. However, it is important for the tests to be tailored according to the way the preschool children learn (Wortham, 2012). For my tests, I wish to assess Bradley Tompkins, a child who is between the ages of 4 and 5 years.  My assessment will be designed to test his Science knowledge and skills.

In this domain, I would wish to achieve several objectives. Firstly, I would want to see how well the child can gather and organize information about the physical and natural world.  In addition to this, I aim at providing Bradley with an opportunity of learning more vocabularies in an effort of increasing his scientific knowledge. Lastly, I hope the test will motivate him to learn and foster curiosity in his young mind (U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, 2010).

In the assessment, I will employ a paper-and-pencil test, providing pictorial clues that will help the child to give the correct response. The test involves circling and drawing a line to the correct response. It will comprise of various pictures that are aligned on both the right and left hand sides. On the right-hand side, the pictures will be of animals while on the left-hand-side, they will consist of various foods  (Wortham, 2012). As I name an animal, Bradley will be expected to show the named animal using a circle and then match it with the food that it takes using a line.

At the beginning of the assessment, I will provide the child with an example. Afterwards, I will explain to him what he is required to do. This will be done by going through the written instructions to ensure that he has understood them.

References

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. (2010). The Head Start Child Development and             Early Learning Framework: Promoting Positive Outcomes in Early Childhood Programs            Serving Children 3-5 Years Old. Washington, D.C.

Wortham, S. C. (2012).  An Overview of assessment in Early Childhood. In J. W. Johnston & J.   Peters             (Eds.) Assessment in Early Childhood Education (p. 21). Pearson Learning Solutions: Prentice Hall, Upper Saddle River, New Jersey 07458. Retrieved March 12,          2014 from VitalBook file.