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Help or Hindrance? Staff Perspectives on Developmental Assessment in Multicultural Early Childhood Settings

Thirty-five staff members' views on developmental assessment in a multicultural early childhood setting are described and used to initiate a critique of current practice in assessment of young children. Staff expressed a range of opinions from endorsement to frank rejection of the utility, validity, and ethics of developmental assessment. (Contains references.) (Author/CR)

• Contributor: Schuman, Andrea
• Date Published: Aug
• Journal/Secondary Title: Mental Retardation
• Number: 4
• Volume: 40
• Year: 2002

This resource is cataloged under:

• Network/channel: NIUSI: Professional Effort: Learning Assessment
• Network/channel: NIUSI: Professional Effort: Learning Standards
• Network/channel: NIUSI: Professional Effort: Teaching Design & Practices

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