Infant-toddler teachers can successfully employ authentic assessment: The Learning Through Relating system |
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| Authors: | Amanda J Moreno Mary M Klute |
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| Institution: | a Marsico Institute for Early Learning and Literacy, Morgridge College of Education, 1999 East Evans Avenue, Suite 160, University of Denver, Denver, CO 80208, United States
b Clayton Early Learning Institute, Denver, CO, United States |
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| Abstract: | This study documents the reliability and validity of a new infant-toddler authentic assessment, the Learning Through Relating Child Assets Record (LTR-CAR), and its feasibility of use by infant-toddler caregivers in an Early Head Start program. In a sample of 136 children, results indicated a strong internal structure of the LTR-CAR as evidenced by high internal consistency within age bands, expected performance in terms of the order of difficulty of items, and expected performance relative to the chronological ages of children. Moreover, the LTR-CAR accounted for a statistically significant amount of unique variance (between 6 and 26%), over and above age and gender, in six out of eight regressions predicting criterion measures. Given the increasing numbers of infants and toddlers in non-parental care, the need for authentic assessment as a tool to plan meaningful learning opportunities, as well as the lack of evidence-based authentic assessment options at the infant-toddler level, the LTR-CAR may provide a viable option for the field. |
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| Keywords: | Authentic assessment Developmental checklist Infants Toddlers |
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