Assessment Planning and Observations in Early Education Framework

ASSESMENT PLANNING
AND OBSERVATIONS
1

TABLE OF CONTENTS
Structure of current early education framework (Early years’ foundation stage).......................3
Areas of learning and development which shapes educational program in early year settings...3
Standards set out in EYF.............................................................................................................4
Formative assessment and its use................................................................................................4
Summative assessment and its use...............................................................................................5
Positive and negative attribute of formative and summative assessment....................................5
Key people who should be informed about child’s progress.......................................................5
Roles and responsibilities of people in planning and implementing of learning next stage........5
Records that kept on observation and assessment within organisation.......................................5
Legal requirements for keeping records in early education system.............................................6
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................6

Structure of current early education framework (Early years’ foundation stage)
Age of children for EYFS are 5 years old, where the policies are set for better education,
learning and care of children (Heggart and Yoo, 2018), it ends when child enters the key stage
one (KS1). Current structure concern with seven factors that are as follows:
 Personal, social and emotional development
 Physical development
 Literacy
 Mathematics
 Communication
 Knowing the world
 Expressive arts and design
Areas of learning and development which shapes educational program in early year settings
EYFS suggests that educational programme should involves the activities and other
experiences that covers the 7 significant areas.
Physical development:
It concerns with providing the facilities to young children for being active and interactive
and promoting development of coordination. Control. EYFS also states that children need to
understand about physical health for making right choices for food.
Literacy:
It enables the child to associate or joins the sounds and letters to read and write, where
children should access greater range of books and other materials.
Communication:
3