ECH 420 Week 4 Team: Assessment Concept Mapping

Create a concept map that focuses on four different types of early childhood science assessments.

Answer the following questions regarding each assessment:

• Is this an effective way to assess student mastery? Explain your response.
• How could the assessment be used to guide early childhood science instruction?
• Would you use this assessment in your early childhood science classroom? How might you change the assessment and what might you keep the same?
• When teaching science, safety is an important factor. How can you include safety practices in the assessment?
• Why is it important to use multiple methods, in the most authentic contexts possible, to assess student understanding of science?

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