Author Question: Your text states that the acquisition of math skills and concepts occurs over time. What is one ... (Read 89 times)

nevelica · **on:** Sep 15, 2018

Your text states that the acquisition of math skills and concepts occurs over time. What is one thing that
researchers have learned about how infants and toddlers build the skills they will one day use for mathematics?

What will be an ideal response?

Question 2

List six of the eleven indicators of an effective assessment:

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Question 3

List and define four of the six early literacy skills that have a strong relationship to later literacy skills:

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qytan · **Reply #1 on:** Sep 15, 2018

Answer to Question 1

ANSWER: Infants and toddlers begin to notice relationships as they start to sort, classify, seriate, compare, and order objects.

Answer to Question 2

ANSWER:
STUDENTS SHOLD LIST SIX OF THE ELEVEN 1) Ethical principles guide assessment practices. 2) Assessment instruments are used for their intended purposes. 3) Assessments are appropriate for ages and other characteristics of children being assessed. 4) Assessment instruments are in compliance with professional criteria for quality. 5) What is assessed is developmentally and educationally significant. 6) Assessments use multiple sources of evidence gathered over time. 7) Use of individually administered, norm-referenced tests is limited.

Assessment evidence is used to understand and improve learning. 9) Assessment evidence is gathered from realistic settings and situations that reflect childrens actual performance. 10) Screening is always linked to follow-up. 11) Staff and families are knowledgeable about assessment.

Answer to Question 3

ANSWER:
STUDENTS SHOLD LIST AND DEFINE FOUR OF THE SIX 1) Alphabet knowledge: knowledge of the names and sounds associated with printed letters 2) phonological awareness: the ability to detect, manipulate, or analyze the auditory aspects of spoken language 3) rapid automatic naming of letters or digits: the ability to rapidly name a sequence of random letters or digits 4) rapid automatic naming of objects or colors: the ability to rapidly name a sequence of repeating random sets of pictures of objects or colors 5) writing or writing name: the ability to write letters in isolation on request or to write ones own name 6) phonological memory: the ability to remember spoken information for a short period of time.