Primary School Assessment

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This paper focuses on some of the issues regarding young children's assessment on entry into school. It aims to highlight the importance of assessing children in the early years and to specify what should be actually assessed. It also stresses the importance of assessment to ensure that their transition into primary school becomes an interesting challenge.

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"In the field of early years education many reasons are offered as to why it is important to assess children. This includes identifying the child's present level of development, assisting planning for the learning that is to take place in the immediate future; identifying early difficulties, and a way of documenting children's progress during the year. Assessment can help also to understand children's use of their multiple intelligences (Gardner, 1993) and learning processes. Although these reasons are significant factors to consider, it is important to realise that in order to benefit the teacher as well, the focus should be put not only on the child, but also on the provision and curriculum offered. In this way, young children's assessments can also be used as a way of identifying the strengths, weaknesses and gaps in the curriculum provided for them (Drummond, 1996)."

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