Pearson - Framework Assessment Tool

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Pearson is an assessment tool that supports early childhood educators in observing, assessing and tracking the development of children based on observations. Pearson has two assessment tools designed for children in different age groups:

• The Ounce Scale, which provides a structure for assessing the development of children from birth to 3 ½ years of age.
• The Work Sampling System that allows teachers to evaluate the skills of children age 3-9.

Once this framework has been implemented into your center, you can add, edit, remove, and view the developmental assessment reports needs for each child. Curious to see how this will look in action? View our pre-recorded webinar here.

You can access the report from each child's profile by simply clicking on 'Development Assessment Reports'.

Ounce Overview

From the Developmental Assessment Overview page you can:

• View how many assessment skills this child has completed and how many are left to complete for this particular domain.
• View assessments by age group that you're currently working on.
• Create and edit new assessments by age group.

After creating a new assessment, you can:

• View and edit the start and end date of this assessment. You can choose if you want to have the start and end date for the time period the child was in your class or, if you do long term assessing for your classroom, you can indicate this period that the assessment was performed.
• Click the appropriate bubble to indicate if the skill is "Not Developed" (ND) or "Developed As Expected" (DAE).
• Add or edit a comment for each skill.
• Navigate to the Developmental Evidence page to see the specific domains, skills, and indicators you've added to this child's profile to document their learning and development.

After filling the information and saving, the report will look like this:

Worksampling Overview

The Work Sampling system includes the age ranges below:

Ready to create a new assessment report for a child? Click on the green 'Create Assessment' button to get started. Here the key to determine if the skill status is 'Not yet' (NY), 'In progress' (IP), 'Proficient' (PRO), 'Not available' (NA) or 'Did not observe' (DNO).

After filling the information and saving, the report will look like this: