Assessing Development and Readiness for School across Different Cultural and Language Groups

Autor/in	de Lemos, Marion
Titel	Assessing Development and Readiness for School across Different Cultural and Language Groups
Quelle	In: Australian Journal of Learning Difficulties, 13 (2008) 2, S.73-98 (26 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1940-4158
Schlagwörter	School Readiness; Validity; Writing Skills; Developmental Stages; Preschool Education; Preschool Children; Measures (Individuals); Cultural Differences; Second Languages; Evaluation Methods + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Readiness for school; School ability; Schulreife; Gültigkeit; Writing skill; Schreibfertigkeit; Pre-school education; Vorschulerziehung; Pre-school age; Preschool age; Child; Children; Preschool education; Vorschulalter; Kind; Kinder; Vorschulkind; Vorschulkinder; Vorschule; Messdaten; Kultureller Unterschied; Second language; Zweitsprache
Abstract	This paper provides information on a measure that was developed to assess children's level of development at preschool and entry to school level, as well as their readiness for formal schooling. This measure--"Who Am I?"--is based on early copying and writing skills and is designed to identify the broad stages of development that underlie children's readiness for more formal learning in a school situation. Although originally developed in Australia, it has now been used in studies in a number of different countries, including Canada, and data from these studies provide some insight into the variations in development that are associated with different patterns of preschool provision and different ages of entry into an educational program. The results of these studies indicate that "Who Am I?" provides a valid measure of development across different language and cultural groups and can therefore be used as a tool to evaluate the effectiveness of different forms of early childhood provision, as well as children's readiness for more formal learning in a school situation. (Contains 14 tables, 2 figures, and 5 notes.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10