Screening and Assessment in Head Start

Contents

Screening and Assessment in Head Start

Key Concepts

Using What You Learn From Observations: A Form of Assessment

The Challenge of Assessing Children: One Migrant Head Start's Story

Linking Assessment with Curriculum

From Curriculum to Outcomes: Seattle Head Start's Experience

Using the High/Scope Preschool Child Observation Record (COR)

How Screening and Assessment Practices Support Quality Disabilities Services in Head Start

Family-Centered Assessment

Environmental Evaluations: The Key to Quality in Early Head Start Classrooms

Using Assessment to Help Us Work with Families

Participating in a Research Project:A Head Start Program's Experience

Improving Quality in the Classroom: Observations and Recommendations from the Head Start Quality Research Centers

Getting Inside Outcomes

Five Steps to Assessing Child Outcomes

Head Start Child Outcomes Framework

The National Head Start Child Development Institute

Resources

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The Head Start Bulletin is published six times a year by the Head Start Bureau, Administration on Children, Youth and Families, Department of Health and Human Services. The Bulletin is a service of the Head Start Bureau's Training and Technical Assistance Branch. Its purpose is to enhance communication among the Head Start Bureau, Head Start programs, and interested national, regional,
and state organizations and agencies.

Tommy G. Thompson
Secretary

Diann Dawson
Acting Principal Deputy
Assistant Secretary
Administration for Children and Families

Pamela Carter
Acting Director
Office of Public Affairs

James A. Harrell
Acting Commissioner
Administration on Children, Youth and Families

Douglas Klafehn
Acting Associate Commissioner
Head Start Bureau

JoAn Knight Herren
Chief, T/TA Branch
Head Start Bureau

Traci Hefner
Managing Editor
Head Start Bulletin

The Head Start Bulletin is prepared under Contract No. 105-96-2010 with PaL-Tech, Inc.

Deborah Hamilton Kremer
Co-Editor

Jean Swift
Co-Editor

Trish Warner
Co-Editor

Head Start Bulletin
Screening & Assessment
Issue No. 70

Our Guest Editor
Judy David began her career in early childhood education as a Head Start teacher and supervisor. Judy has taught Associate of Arts classes in Early Childhood Education and Child Development to Head Start staff, and has written extensively for parents and teachers. She has co-authored books, including The Preschool Years: Family Strategies that Work From Experts and Parents,by Ellen Galinsky and Judy David (NY: Ballantine Books, 1991) and The Bank Street Curriculum Guide, edited by Anne Mitchell and Judy David (Beltsville, MD: Gryphon House, 1992). Judy has conducted evaluations for early childhood programs and has been on the graduate faculty at Wheelock College in Boston, Massachusetts, and Bank Street College in New York City. She has also consulted with early childhood and primary school programs in the United States and Eastern Europe. Judy currently lives in Nairobi, Kenya. E: dleavens@africaon-line.co.ke.