Development and Assessment of Young Children

Developmental assessment of Young children 4 (1+3)

Lesson 5:Techniques And Trends In Infant And Early Childhood Assessment

Changing nature of school and center populations

• Children in early child programmes are from different racial, ethnic, cultural, linguistic, urban, rural, socioeconomic and educational diversity of the larger society.


• Traditional testing and measurement approaches are ill-suited to these children.


• Inclusion of children with special needs increase the diversity in early childhood class rooms.