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Supporting children’s healthy development and learning and…
Supporting children’s healthy development and learning and informing program planning. How will you adopt the role of an early childhood program director and outline your program’s data assessment plan.
Your plan include the following:
A brief description of child and program assessment strategies used within your program. In your description, include the name of the assessment tool and the kinds of data obtained.
Strategies used to ensure assessment data is utilized in culturally, linguistically, and individually responsive ways that support children’s development of learning and program quality, including:
How often will data be collected?
How will data be disaggregated (children with IFSP/IEPs, English learners/multilingual learners, age span, gender, race, etc.), and the rationale for disaggregation strategies?
How will data be used for continuous improvement?
How is the use of assessment data responsive to legal and ethical mandates?
Plan may be developed based on components of your present place of employment or based on practices included in a program of your creation.
The template below may assist in completing your Assessment Plan.
Data Assessment Plan
The following information highlights required components for your Data Assessment Plan. The plan is for a program that serves children between the ages of 6 weeks and five years of age. The data assessment plan respond to each of the prompts provided.
Part One: Data Collection and Use
The following child assessment strategies are used in the program:
Assessment tool and frequency of data collection Target population/purpose Description of assessment data obtained
The following program assessment strategies are used in the program:
The program uses a variety of strategies to ensure assessment data is utilized in ways that are culturally, linguistically, and individually responsive. In the table below, describe data disaggregation strategies utilized and how they are responsive to the needs of children, families, and the program.
Data disaggregation strategy Rationale (describe why the program uses this strategy) Outcome (describe how this strategy supports child/family and/or program outcomes)
Part Two: Data Use Policy
Based on each of the following required components develop a data use policy. This policy should be specific and identify legal and ethical requirements to stakeholders and how each requirement will be met within the program. Following policy development, provide a list of key stakeholders for which this information is relevant and how this information will be shared.
Honesty, integrity and professionalism
Appropriate interpretation
Incorporation of legal requirements and standards regarding data collection and reporting
Practices to ensure accountability
Practices to ensure data quality
Practices used to promote holistic and accurate data representation
Ensuring data systems are viewed as organizational assets
Practices ensuring data privacy and confidentiality is maintained
Key stakeholders How information will be shared
