Jennifer Grisham

Meaningful, authentic assessment practices are one key to the success of early childhood inclusion. Prepare current and future teachers with the second edition of this comprehensive textbook, an in-depth guide to the how and the why of high-quality assessment in the context of inclusive early childhood settings. Updated with new contributors and coverage of timely new topics, this book takes a blended approach to assessment, combining the latest recommended practices from early childhood education and early childhood special education. Well-known experts Kristie Pretti-Frontczak and Jennifer Grisham have developed this text to align with Division for Early Childhood Recommended Practices on assessment. Educators will learn how to select and use assessment instruments, conduct authentic assessment during daily activities and routines, collaborate with families and other team members, master the challenges of kindergarten assessment, conduct eligibility assessments, use assessment to inform program planning and monitor progress, and more. Ideal for both undergraduate and graduate courses and personnel preparation programs, this comprehensive text gives teachers the knowledge and tools they need to implement high-quality assessment and reap its benefits: inclusive, family-centered programming that improves outcomes for all children. WHATS NEW:New section on considerations for special populations: dual language learners, children in kindergarten, and children who have severe and multiple disabilitiesIncreased focus on educational equity throughout the bookNew and expanded coverage of important themes and topics, including authenticity, collaborative partnerships, and data-based decision makingNew invited contributors who are experts in the field and advocates for early childhood inclusionMore practical materials, including new and extended case studies, a revised Curriculum-Based Assessment Rating Rubric and glossary, and a list of recommended practicesOverview of revised versions of commonly used curriculum-based assessments, including AEPS-3, COR Advantage, and Work Sampling SystemCompanion materials for faculty, including PowerPoints with links to activities and resources

For use after the AEPS®-3 Test, the AEPS®-3 Curriculum is an activity-based, multitiered curriculum that helps professionals support every child's development with differentiated instruction in eight developmental areas: fine motor, gross motor, adaptive, social-emotional, social-communication, cognitive, literacy, and math. This Growing curriculum volume covers skills that typically appear during the toddler years (from 18 months to 3 years of age). Two additional levels, Beginning (for skills typically developing in the first year to 18 months of life) and Ready (covering more complex developmental and early academic skills), are also available. In this volume, professionals will find:a complete introduction to the curriculum's foundations, content, and organizationhelpful guidelines for selecting goals and outcomesstrategies for matching tiered teaching/intervention strategies—universal, focused, and specialized supports—with young children's individual needsinstructions on collecting progress monitoring data at each teaching/intervention tierevidence-based strategies for teaching specific developmental skills within 18 typical routines and activities, such as mealtime, naps, toileting, blocks, and artABOUT AEPS-3Streamlined and enhanced with user-requested updates, the new AEPS-3 gives your early childhood program the most accurate, useful child data and a proven way to turn data into action across everything you do, from goal setting to teaching to progress monitoring. Use this highly effective and efficient linked system to assess, develop goals, implement instruction/intervention, and monitor progress of every child you work with, from the first months of life through kindergarten. AEPS-3 HELPS YOU:Collect essential assessment data and use it across your key tasks: OSEP reporting, determining eligibility, building IFSPs and IEPs, planning teaching and intervention, monitoring progress, and sharing results with familiesTrack and support emerging skills, where real growth and development happenLink assessment data to a tiered curriculum for designing teaching and intervention strategies that get resultsPick up small increments of progress—important when demonstrating growth for children with disabilitiesActively involve families, with handouts to support engagement, forms to gather input, and reports to share resultsStrengthen school readiness for every young child by checking and supporting core skills across all areas of child development, including pre-academic and social-emotional skillsStreamline reporting and data management with AEPS®i, the user-friendly web-based systemThere's never been a more effective or efficient system for assessing, tracking, and nurturing the development of every child you work with, from the first months of life through kindergarten.

A criterion-referenced, curriculum-based measure, the AEPS®-3 Test evaluates the developmental and early academic skills that children need to function independently and succeed in kindergarten. Spanning birth to 6 years in one continuous, seamless test, this Assessment volume covers eight curricular areas—fine motor, gross motor, adaptive, social-emotional, social-communication, cognitive, literacy, and math. Fully linked with the tiered AEPS-3 Curriculum, AEPS-3 Test results can be used to determine a child's level of performance, develop meaningful learning goals and outcomes, plan effective instruction/intervention, and monitor progress over time. In this volume, professionals will find:administration and scoring guidelines for the testtest items and criteria for 407 goals and objectivestips on how to use the AEPS-3 assessment activities with individual children or groups of childrentips on how to score all test items efficientlyinstructions on using the Family Support Forms and Ready-Set assessmentguidance on using test results to write IEP/IFSPs and determine eligibility for servicesABOUT AEPS-3Streamlined and enhanced with user-requested updates, the new AEPS-3 gives your early childhood program the most accurate, useful child data and a proven way to turn data into action across everything you do, from goal setting to teaching to progress monitoring. Use this highly effective and efficient linked system to assess, develop goals, implement instruction/intervention, and monitor progress of every child you work with, from the first months of life through kindergarten. AEPS-3 HELPS YOU:Collect essential assessment data and use it across your key tasks: OSEP reporting, determining eligibility, building IFSPs and IEPs, planning teaching and intervention, monitoring progress, and sharing results with familiesTrack and support emerging skills, where real growth and development happenLink assessment data to a tiered curriculum for designing teaching and intervention strategies that get resultsPick up small increments of progress—important when demonstrating growth for children with disabilitiesActively involve families, with handouts to support engagement, forms to gather input, and reports to share resultsStrengthen school readiness for every young child by checking and supporting core skills across all areas of child development, including pre-academic and social-emotional skillsStreamline reporting and data management with AEPS®i, the user-friendly web-based systemThere's never been a more effective or efficient system for assessing, tracking, and nurturing the development of every child you work with, from the first months of life through kindergarten.

AEPS®?3 Quick Reference Guides are handy, on?the?go guides that provide all AEPS®?3 Test items and criteria in a clear, convenient format. These colourful guides are helpful resources for users as they observe children and administer the test. This pack includes 9 separate laminated guides:Fine MotorGross MotorAdaptiveSocial? EmotionalSocial? CommunicationCognitiveLiteracyMathReady-SetAEPS?3 HELPS YOU:Collect essential assessment data and use it across your key tasks: OSEP reporting, determining eligibility, building IFSPs and IEPs, planning teaching and intervention, monitoring progress, and sharing results with families. Track and support emerging skills, where real growth and development happens. Link assessment data to a tiered curriculum for designing teaching and intervention strategies that get results. Pick up small increments of progress—important when demonstrating growth for children with disabilities. Actively involve families, with handouts to support communication and family engagement, forms to collect information about child skills, and reports to share results and progress. Strengthen school readiness for every young child by checking and supporting core skills across all areas of child development, including pre?academic and social?emotional skills. There's never been a more effective or efficient system for assessing, tracking, and nurturing the development of every child you work with, from the first months of life through kindergarten.

The AEPS®?3 Ready? Set form helps professionals gather child assessment data on skills needed for school readiness and early school success. New to the third edition, the Ready? Set contains 40 developmentally advanced AEPS?3 goals across all 8 areas of the AEPS?3 Test. This shorter measure supports efficient assessment of groups of children in preschool and Head Start classrooms, and it allows users to easily move to the full AEPS?3 Test for children who need it. The Ready? Set is available as a set of 10 4-page forms. AEPS?3 HELPS YOU:Collect essential assessment data and use it across your key tasks: OSEP reporting, determining eligibility, building IFSPs and IEPs, planning teaching and intervention, monitoring progress, and sharing results with families. Track and support emerging skills, where real growth and development happens. Link assessment data to a tiered curriculum for designing teaching and intervention strategies that get results. Pick up small increments of progress—important when demonstrating growth for children with disabilities. Actively involve families, with handouts to support communication and family engagement, forms to collect information about child skills, and reports to share results and progress. Strengthen school readiness for every young child by checking and supporting core skills across all areas of child development, including pre?academic and social?emotional skills. There's never been a more effective or efficient system for assessing, tracking, and nurturing the development of every child you work with, from the first months of life through kindergarten.

The AEPS®?3 Family Report helps families to share important, useful information about the child and family needs, as well as family concerns and priorities. It gathers input about the child's participation at home and in the community; daily routines related to eating, sleeping, dressing and toileting, bathing, traveling, playing, and communicating; and specifics related to making changes in routines or transitions. The Family Report is available as a set of 10 8-page forms. AEPS?3 HELPS YOU:Collect essential assessment data and use it across your key tasks: OSEP reporting, determining eligibility, building IFSPs and IEPs, planning teaching and intervention, monitoring progress, and sharing results with families. Track and support emerging skills, where real growth and development happens. Link assessment data to a tiered curriculum for designing teaching and intervention strategies that get results. Pick up small increments of progress—important when demonstrating growth for children with disabilities. Actively involve families, with handouts to support communication and family engagement, forms to collect information about child skills, and reports to share results and progress. Strengthen school readiness for every young child by checking and supporting core skills across all areas of child development, including pre?academic and social?emotional skills. There's never been a more effective or efficient system for assessing, tracking, and nurturing the development of every child you work with, from the first months of life through kindergarten.

Comprehensive and reader-friendly, this User's Guide gives early childhood professionals the practical knowledge they need to use the Assessment, Evaluation, and Programming System for Infants and Children, Third Edition (AEPS®-3) accurately and effectively. In this volume, professionals will find:a complete overview of the AEPS-3 linked system approachan introduction to each AEPS-3 component and how they work togetherstrategies for encouraging family engagement and fostering team collaborationguidance on using AEPS-3 to work with children and families who have diverse needsa summary of the research behind AEPS-3, including data on the utility, validity, and reliability of the AEPS-3 TestABOUT AEPS-3Streamlined and enhanced with user-requested updates, the new AEPS-3 gives your early childhood program the most accurate, useful child data and a proven way to turn data into action across everything you do, from goal setting to teaching to progress monitoring. Use this highly effective and efficient linked system to assess, develop goals, implement instruction/intervention, and monitor progress of every child you work with, from the first months of life through kindergarten. AEPS-3 HELPS YOU:Collect essential assessment data and use it across your key tasks: OSEP reporting, determining eligibility, building IFSPs and IEPs, planning teaching and intervention, monitoring progress, and sharing results with familiesTrack and support emerging skills, where real growth and development happenLink assessment data to a tiered curriculum for designing teaching and intervention strategies that get resultsPick up small increments of progress—important when demonstrating growth for children with disabilitiesActively involve families, with handouts to support engagement, forms to gather input, and reports to share resultsStrengthen school readiness for every young child by checking and supporting core skills across all areas of child development, including pre-academic and social-emotional skillsStreamline reporting and data management with AEPS®i, the user-friendly web-based systemThere's never been a more effective or efficient system for assessing, tracking, and nurturing the development of every child you work with, from the first months of life through kindergarten.

Streamlined and enhanced with user?requested updates, the new AEPS®-3 gives your early childhood program the most accurate, useful child data and a proven way to turn data into action across everything you do, from goal setting to teaching to progress monitoring. This Complete Kit contains everything you need to implement AEPS®-3. AEPS®-3 HELPS YOU:Collect essential assessment data and use it across your key tasks: OSEP reporting, determining eligibility, building IFSPs and IEPs, planning teaching and intervention, monitoring progress, and sharing results with families. Track and support emerging skills, where real growth and development happens. Link assessment data to a tiered curriculum for designing teaching and intervention strategies that get results. Pick up small increments of progress—important when demonstrating growth for children with disabilities. Actively involve families, with handouts to support communication and family engagement, forms to collect information about child skills, and reports to share results and progress. Strengthen school readiness for every young child by checking and supporting core skills across all areas of child development, including pre-academic and social-emotional skills. There's never been a more effective or efficient system for assessing, tracking, and nurturing the development of every child you work with, from the first months of life through kindergarten. The AEPS®-3 Complete Kit includes:AEPS®-3 User's GuideAEPS®-3 AssessmentAEPS®-3 Beginning CurriculumAEPS®-3 Growing CurriculumAEPS®-3 Ready Curriculum2 5-packs of AEPS®-3 Child Observation Data Form (CODF) 1 10-pack of AEPS®-3 Family Report1 10-pack of AEPS®-3 Ready-SetAEPS®-3 Quick Reference GuidesAEPS®-3 Forms USB

For use after the AEPS®-3 Test, the AEPS®-3 Curriculum is an activity-based, multitiered curriculum that helps professionals support every child's development with differentiated instruction in eight developmental areas: fine motor, gross motor, adaptive, social-emotional, social-communication, cognitive, literacy, and math. This Ready curriculum volume covers more complex developmental and early academic skills that are considered important for school success. Two additional levels, Beginning (for skills typically developing in the first year to 18 months of life) and Growing (for the toddler years) are also available. In this volume, professionals will find:a complete introduction to the curriculum's foundations, content, and organizationhelpful guidelines for selecting goals and outcomesstrategies for matching tiered teaching/intervention strategies—universal, focused, and specialized supports—with young children's individual needsinstructions on collecting progress monitoring data at each teaching/intervention tierevidence-based strategies for teaching specific developmental skills within 18 typical routines and activities, such as snack time, handwashing, dramatic play, circle time, and scienceABOUT AEPS-3Streamlined and enhanced with user-requested updates, the new AEPS-3 gives your early childhood program the most accurate, useful child data and a proven way to turn data into action across everything you do, from goal setting to teaching to progress monitoring. Use this highly effective and efficient linked system to assess, develop goals, implement instruction/intervention, and monitor progress of every child you work with, from the first months of life through kindergarten. AEPS-3 HELPS YOU:Collect essential assessment data and use it across your key tasks: OSEP reporting, determining eligibility, building IFSPs and IEPs, planning teaching and intervention, monitoring progress, and sharing results with familiesTrack and support emerging skills, where real growth and development happenLink assessment data to a tiered curriculum for designing teaching and intervention strategies that get resultsPick up small increments of progress—important when demonstrating growth for children with disabilitiesActively involve families, with handouts to support engagement, forms to gather input, and reports to share resultsStrengthen school readiness for every young child by checking and supporting core skills across all areas of child development, including pre-academic and social-emotional skillsStreamline reporting and data management with AEPS®i, the user-friendly web-based systemThere's never been a more effective or efficient system for assessing, tracking, and nurturing the development of every child you work with, from the first months of life through kindergarten.

For use after the AEPS®-3 Test, the AEPS®-3 Curriculum is an activity-based, multi-tiered curriculum that helps professionals support every child's development with differentiated instruction in eight developmental areas: fine motor, gross motor, adaptive, social-emotional, social-communication, cognitive, literacy, and math. This Beginning curriculum volume includes foundational skills that typically developing children acquire in the first year to 18 months of life. Two additional levels, Growing (for the toddler years) and Ready (covering more complex developmental and early academic skills), are also available. In this volume, professionals will find:a complete introduction to the curriculum's foundations, content, and organizationhelpful guidelines for selecting goals and outcomesstrategies for matching tiered teaching/intervention strategies—universal, focused, and specialized supports—with young children's individual needsinstructions on collecting progress monitoring data at each teaching/intervention tierevidence-based strategies for teaching specific developmental skills within 18 typical routines and activities, such as mealtime, naps, dressing, bathtime, sensory, and outdoor playABOUT AEPS-3Streamlined and enhanced with user-requested updates, the new AEPS-3 gives your early childhood program the most accurate, useful child data and a proven way to turn data into action across everything you do, from goal setting to teaching to progress monitoring. Use this highly effective and efficient linked system to assess, develop goals, implement instruction/intervention, and monitor progress of every child you work with, from the first months of life through kindergarten. AEPS-3 HELPS YOU:Collect essential assessment data and use it across your key tasks: OSEP reporting, determining eligibility, building IFSPs and IEPs, planning teaching and intervention, monitoring progress, and sharing results with familiesTrack and support emerging skills, where real growth and development happenLink assessment data to a tiered curriculum for designing teaching and intervention strategies that get resultsPick up small increments of progress—important when demonstrating growth for children with disabilitiesActively involve families, with handouts to support engagement, forms to gather input, and reports to share resultsStrengthen school readiness for every young child by checking and supporting core skills across all areas of child development, including pre-academic and social-emotional skillsStreamline reporting and data management with AEPS®i, the user-friendly web-based systemThere's never been a more effective or efficient system for assessing, tracking, and nurturing the development of every child you work with, from the first months of life through kindergarten.

The AEPS®?3 Child Observation Data Form helps professionals gather child assessment data in all 8 AEPS-3 developmental areas across 3 time periods through observation, direct test, and/or report. It is available in a pack of 5 36-page forms. AEPS?3 HELPS YOU:Collect essential assessment data and use it across your key tasks: OSEP reporting, determining eligibility, building IFSPs and IEPs, planning teaching and intervention, monitoring progress, and sharing results with families. Track and support emerging skills, where real growth and development happens. Link assessment data to a tiered curriculum for designing teaching and intervention strategies that get results. Pick up small increments of progress—important when demonstrating growth for children with disabilities. Actively involve families, with handouts to support communication and family engagement, forms to collect information about child skills, and reports to share results and progress. Strengthen school readiness for every young child by checking and supporting core skills across all areas of child development, including pre?academic and social?emotional skills. There's never been a more effective or efficient system for assessing, tracking, and nurturing the development of every child you work with, from the first months of life through kindergarten.