units

EDF3321

Faculty of Education

18 September 2017 23 December 2024
Monash University

Undergraduate - Unit

This unit entry is for students who completed this unit in 2013 only. For students planning to study the unit, please refer to the unit indexes in the the current edition of the Handbook. If you have any queries contact the managing faculty for your course or area of study.

print version

6 points, SCA Band 1, 0.125 EFTSL

To find units available for enrolment in the current year, you must make sure you use the indexes and browse unit tool in the current edition of the Handbook.

LevelUndergraduate
FacultyFaculty of Education
OfferedPeninsula First semester 2013 (Day)
Singapore Term 3 2013 (Off-campus)
Coordinator(s)Dr Corine Rivalland

Synopsis

This unit will introduce students to a range of ways to identify, investigate, and make professional judgments about children's learning and development in early childhood settings, including homes, schools, and early childhood services. An emphasis on assessment for learning (rather than assessment of learning) will be taken. Students will participate in a range of assessment activities, using a variety of digital and other tools. Students will learn how to communicate with families about children's learning and development, and how to involve children in making judgments about their own learning and their learning goals.

Outcomes

Upon successful completion of this unit, students will be able to:

  1. systematically observe and document learning episodes using a range of technologies;
  2. make explicit links between observed behaviours and children's development of specific knowledge, skills, attitudes, and learning dispositions;
  3. express assessment information in a way that is accessible to children and their families;
  4. involve children in reflecting on their learning and identifying their own learning goals, and
  5. reflect critically on contemporary assessment discourse in schools and early childhood services.

Assessment

Assessment task 1: One portfolio item demonstrating an assessment technique (2,000 words or equivalent, 50%).
Assessment task 2: One portfolio item demonstrating reporting to children and/or parents (2,000 words or equivalent, 50%).

Chief examiner(s)

Dr Corine Rivalland

Contact hours

3 contact hours per week, 9 hours private study including readings, completion of set tasks and self-directed learning.