Select one informal assessment from Table 12.3 of the text.
When I was looking over the list of informal assessments, I thought that they were all relatively good for assessing the children in the class, some have better positives (in my mind) than others, but I found that the running record was the one that caught my attention the most. This is because of how thorough it seems to be.
• Discuss why you feel it is an effective form of assessment to use in your future role as an educator.
I feel like the running record assessment would work the best for me because it is a detailed record of how a child’s behavior is improving or declining. It is recorded in real time as behavior is occurring Jaruszewicz (2019). It gives the teacher the ability to track progress to a degree that the other assessments do not, it can even compete with the time/event sampling if you just add a timestamp to your observations.
• As an educator, imagine you have just administered the assessment. Describe how specifically you will use this measurement to make instructional decisions about curriculum.
To me, this seems like the ultimate tool because it allows the teacher to tailor any child’s curriculum to the needs that are displayed within the running record assessment. This covers any and all behavior that the child displays. For instance, if you note that a particular child has a tendency to have uneven cuts with the scissors, you can help him/her by giving the child something to cut that is simple shoes or simply just small cuts, then as they get better with that, you can help them with longer cuts by showing them that they need to push with the scissors and pull with the paper while cutting on the line.
• Explain how you will share the assessment results with families
I would share the assessment with the family by both emailing them the before and after product of the cutting and by showing them the product of the child during