Document Type
Issue Area Four
Abstract
Assessment should be considered an information-gathering technique, used primarily to help students thrive. It is, at best, a momentary snap-shot. Presently, the purpose of screening students seems to be to determine their readiness to fit in our formal system, thus excluding certain children who do not meet some pre-determined level of criteria set by the school or district. Such an approach makes children "square pegs" to fit the "round hole" of the system. When discussing the idea of assessment, then, the question becomes "ready for what?" This issue group quickly reached consensus on the fact that any assessment of children prior to enrollment in our school systems should be to of determine how best to serve them at their present level of development, thus requiring the school to fit the child.
Journal Title
Institute for Educational Leadership Monograph Series
Volume
4
Issue
2
First Page
93
Last Page
96
Publisher
Institute for Educational Leadership, University of Northern Iowa
City
Cedar Falls, IA
Copyright
©1993 Institute for Educational Leadership, College of Education, and the University of Northern Iowa
Language
en
File Format
application/pdf
Recommended Citation
Rigdon, Kenneth L.
(1993)
"Issue Area Four: Assessing Readiness of Students to Start School: How Do We Know When Kids are Ready to Learn in a School Setting?,"
Institute for Educational Leadership Monograph Series: Vol. 4:
No.
2, Article 25.
Available at:
https://scholarworks.uni.edu/iel_monographs/vol4/iss2/25
