Gathering Work Samples in Pre-K

This article advocates the use of developmentally appropriate assessment to support learning through the process of gathering information related to a child’s development and learning style.

This five-minute video describes how to collect and use work samples to document children’s learning in the preschool classroom.

This article describes why documentation is important in early childhood education.

Dr. Lilian Katz clarifies the main purposes for which children are typically assessed and discusses the relationship between assessment and instruction.

Sam Meisels describes the Work Sampling System and explains how testing of young children can be used inappropriately, resulting in inaccurate results and poor teaching.

This article explains how photographing children’s work can be a powerful addition to portfolios and assessments in the early childhood classroom.

Observation insights, along with samples of children’s work, can be used to create valuable portfolios. This article shows how portfolio assessment offers a variety of benefits.

This report describes the Work Sampling System as a means of documentation and evaluation as well as reporting.