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Appendix B: Information on Stakeholder Forum
Appendix B: Information on Stakeholder Forum
Pages 429-436
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1:20 Ben Allen, National Head Start Association 1:32 Tammy Mann, Zero to Three 1:44 Fasaha Traylor, Foundation for Child Development 1:56 Jerlean Daniel, National Association for the Education of Young Children 2:08 Joan Isenberg, National Association of Early Childhood Teacher Educators 2:20 Sally Flagler, National Association of School Psychologists 2:32 Andrea Browning, Society for Research in Child Development (brief statement) 2:40 Break 3:00 Willard Gilbert, National Association for Bilingual Education 429
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Numerous types of assessments are used in Head Start programs. For example, performance standards for Head Start require that programs assess the progress of each child toward an array of positive outcomes, on an ongoing basis; programs are required to screen children to identify special needs; and children are assessed on their achievement of specific cognitive and language outcomes through the standardized National Reporting System.
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It is anticipated that the 20-month study will inform the development and implementation of future testing instruments for children enrolled in Head Start programs and other early childhood interventions as well as guiding training needs for staff involved in administering and interpreting various assessments. Explicit attention will be given in the study to identification of children with various disabilities as well as assessments of children from minority cultures and those whose home language is not English.
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Questions for Forum Participants Listed below are general topics and more specific questions based upon the issues that the Committee on Developmental Outcomes and Assessments for Young Children will be addressing in its work. We are interested in your views on any of these that you and your organization feel competent to address, but you should not feel obliged to answer all of the questions.
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C. What do you see as the relative merits of direct assessment versus assessment based on ongoing observation of chil dren in their natural environments? D. Where do you stand on the issue of administering all children all instruments and items versus some form of sampling?
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Forum Speaker List Ben Allen, National Head Start Association Noma Anderson, American Speech-Language-Hearing Association Andrea Browning, Society of Research on Child Development Miriam Calderon, National Council of La Raza Jerlean Daniel, National Association for the Education of Young Children Felicia DeHaney, National Black Child Development Institute Sally Flagler, National Association of School Psychologists Willard Gilbert, National Association for Bilingual Education Mark Innocenti, Division for Early Childhood, Council for Exceptional Children Joan Isenberg, National Association of Early Childhood Teacher Educators Michael Lopez, National Center for Latino Child and Family Research Tammy Mann, Zero to Three
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APPENDIX B 435 Michaelene Ostrosky, Center on the Social Emotional Foundations of Early Learning Fasaha Traylor, Foundation for Child Development
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