1. “Teachers compile and summarize classroom data to integrate and distill information from different sources, contexts, and methods, reduce it to a manageable size; and keep past assessments accessible for continued analysis and interpretation” (McAfee & Leong, 2016, p. 98). Portfolios represent one common strategy for achieving these goals. Review pages 98-100 of Assessing and Guiding Young Children’s Development and Learning. Explain the role portfolios play in an effective assessment system.
   
   
2. “Without reflection, assessment, and consequently instruction, assessment may not be linked to meeting children’s needs” (McAfee & Leong, 2016, p. 110). The process of compiling and summarizing data through group and individual profiles and summaries can serve as an important tool to enhance your understanding of children’s development and learning. Select either group or individual profiles, and based on the information presented on pages 112-116 of your course text, provide a definition of the profile that you selected, describe the content that you would include in your profile, explain how you would organize the content, and then summarize how you would use the information to help you reflect on children’s development and learning.
3. Assessment needs to be “reliable, valid, fair, and adequate” (McAfee & Leong, 2016, p. 122). Review the safeguards essential to maintaining the quality and trustworthiness of data (pp. 122–1 23). Then consider Figure 7.2 on page 129, which provides an appraisal of a group’s status and progress in fine-motor development. How effectively does the information included in Figure 7.2 meet the identified safeguards? What additional information, if any, would contribute to knowledge of an individual child’s fine motor development?

• Course Text:  McAfee, O., Leong, D. J., & Bodrova, E.  (2016). Assessing and guiding young children’s development and learning (6th ed.). Boston: Pearson. 
• • • Chapter 6, “Compiling and Summarizing Information”
    • Chapter 7, “Interpreting Assessment Information”
    • Chapter 9, “Organizing for Assessment” (Read p. 167-170)

 

Optional Resources

 

• Web Article: “Choosing an Appropriate Assessment System”
  
  http://www.naeyc.org/files/yc/file/200401/shillady.pdf (PDF document)

• Web Article: “Routine Use of Standardized Tests for All Young Children”
  
  http://www.ncrel.org/sdrs/areas/issues/students/earlycld/ea5lk10.htm
• Web Article: “Developmentally Appropriate Assessment”
  http://www.ncrel.org/sdrs/areas/issues/students/earlycld/ea5lk2.htm
   
  This assignment is due Saturday @ noon
  APA Format please

Utilizing your campus email is a vital part of being an online student. Your university’s portal provides you email access with Microsoft Outlook Web Access. You have most likely already been using Microsoft Outlook Web Access to communicate with your instructors and CTU Online staff. This tool can be used for more than just sending email. It can be used to manage your calendar, contact list, upcoming tasks, and to file your emails.

 

For this assignment, use the Microsoft resources located here to provide specific direction. you will do the following tasks, using Microsoft Outlook Web Access, and place the screenshots in a word document that you will submit to the instructor:

 

(Note: use link: http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/outlook-help/basic-tasks-in-outlook-2013-HA102835390.aspx)

 

1. Input an appointment in your calendar
   • Take a screen shot of this appointment, paste it into a Word document, and label it ‘Calendar Appointment’
2. Create a to-do list of at 3 tasks using the task function  
   • Take a screen shot of this list, paste it into the same Word document, and label it Task Function To-Do List
3. Create a new folder in your Outlook inbox to file emails you receive concerning this course
   • Take a screen shot showing this folder, paste it into the same Word document, and label it Instructor Folder
4. Set up your email to Spell Check each message before sending 
   • Take a screen shot showing that this option is set, paste it into the same Word document, and label it Spell Check Set Up
5. Create a Signature for your email
   • Send a test email to yourself with the subject line ‘Signature Test’ and then copy and paste this email into the same Word document (be sure that the time & date stamp is included). Label it Signature Set Up.

 

Make sure all screenshots are complete and labeled in the Word document and submit the Word document to your instructor.

 

Please submit your assignment.

 

discuss the extent that cultural relativism is a useful approach to understanding and interacting with people who hold it.

Need responses and/or additional info on two students comments to the same question. If references are used I need them in APA format.