Comparative Education, Vol. 50, No. 3, Special Issue (49): Knowledge in Numbers (AUGUST 2014), pp. 322-339 (18 pages) Since 2003 children in England have been formally assessed at the age of 5 after ...

Studies in Art Education, Vol. 36, No. 1 (Autumn, 1994), pp. 28-43 (16 pages) Assessment in the arts is often overlooked or avoided in the early childhood years because it appears to be incompatible ...

Useful new report from NAEYC outlines key considerations in implementing Kindergarten entry and other large scale assessments for young children. It’s a very thorough and informative piece and is, ...

As federal pressure for accountability standards moves into the preschool arena, it is important for states to rapidly develop processes that align preschool standards with K-12 standards and evaluate ...

The federal government's early childhood initiatives, which seek to improve the literacy and language skills of children from preschool through third grade, are raising standards and demanding ...

In 2021 in Brazil, early childhood education became part of the Basic Education Assessment System (SAEB, in Portuguese). The SAEB is a set of large-scale external assessments that allows the Anísio ...

Bisphenol A (BPA) is a plasticiser found in a number of household plastics, electronics, and food-packaging materials. Over the past 5 years, several human epidemiological studies have reported a ...