‘I’m putting crosses for the letters I don’t know.’ Assessment in the early years

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‘I’m putting crosses for the letters I don’t know.’ Assessment in the early years

ABSTRACT

For those concerned with developing children’s learning in the earlyyears, assessment has always been seen as: ‘an integral part of the educational process, continually providing both feedback and feedforward’ (DES, 1987, para. 4).