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Assignment: For this assignment, create a PowerPoint Presentation to create your assessment plan. Your strengths-based and family-centered assessment plan must include the following sections:

Introduction: • Describe your center or school's philosophy of assessment. Your philosophy must be supported by scholarly or credible sources.
Goals, Benefits, and Uses of Assessment:

• Explain the purpose of assessment.

• Discuss the assessment cycle.

• Describe the principles of assessment that will guide the use of assessment in your center.

Types of Assessments: For each of the types of assessment listed below, you will need to define the assessment, provide a rationale for using this type of assessment, share an example, and explain at least one way you use the information from this assessment to inform your instruction.

• Observations.

• Checklists, rating scales, rubrics.

• Teacher-designed assessments.

• Performance-based assessments.

• Standardized assessments.

• Portfolios.

Using Assessments to Inform Instruction:

• Analyze how the assessments you are using meet ethical standards

• Examine how you use these assessments to make decisions; include specific examples

• Discuss how you will use assessments to help ensure students are meeting their goals on their IEPs and/or IFSPs.

Assessment Partnerships with Families:

• Explain how your school will develop an assessment partnership with families. Include specific strategies for involving families and communities in their children's learning and development.

• Discuss, using specific examples, how you will use parent conferences to communicate about assessments.

• Explain how diverse families and community characteristics will be taken into consideration when communicating about assessments.

• Share at least two professional organizations or assessment-based resources you can provide families with to help them better understand the use of assessments.