Child Assessment Tools

The Work Sampling System

www.pearsonearlylearning.com/products/assessment/wss/index.html

This is an ongoing observation assessment system that is used to document children’s skills, knowledge, behavior, and accomplishments across a wide variety of curriculum areas on multiple occasions in order to enhance teaching and learning.

The High/Scope Child Observation Record (COR)

www.highscope.org/Assessment/cor.htm

There are two tools available: The High/Scope COR for Ages 2 ½ a-6 and The High/Scope COR for Infants and Toddlers. Each is an observational assessment tool that charts children’s development and progress over time in the areas of language, mathematics, initiative, social relations, creative representation, and music and movement.

Other Child Assessment Tools are available on the National Child Care Information Center web site.