School: Education

This unit information may be updated and amended immediately prior to semester. To ensure you have the correct outline, please check it again at the beginning of semester.

Your unit may be subject to government or third party COVID-19 vaccination requirements. Please consider this before enrolling in this unit, and speak with the unit coordinator if this raises any concerns.

  • Unit Title

    Assessing and Evaluating Young Children's Learning
  • Unit Code

    ECS2260
  • Year

    2022
  • Enrolment Period

    1
  • Version

    1
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
    Online
  • Unit Coordinator

    Mrs Amanda HOFFENSETZ

Description

This unit focuses on authentic assessment and evaluation practices of young children's learning in early childhood settings. It explores the processes used to collect, document, monitor, interpret and critically analyse assessment data and to report on children's learning and development. Students will explore the issues and challenges as outlined in contemporary educational research. Students will examine a range of formal and informal assessment methods with reference to current theoretical and practical perspectives. The implications for making professional judgements about teaching and children's development and learning will be explored.

Prerequisite Rule

Students must have successfully completed ECS1240.

Equivalent Rule

Unit was previously coded ECS3260.

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Examine ways of responding to assessment data in order to report to systems and families.
  2. Design appropriate assessment plans for implementation across a range of early childhood education and care settings.
  3. Critically analyse the theories of assessment as a basis for future planning and teaching.
  4. Analyse observations and make explicit links to the documentation of children's development and learning.
  5. Analyse, design and use a range of appropriate observation and assessment methods across early childhood education and care settings.

Unit Content

  1. Communicating with stakeholders about childrens' progress and achievements.
  2. Ways of documenting children's learning and development using the assessment, planning and teaching cycle.
  3. Interpreting observation and assessment data and making professional judgements about future learning and development.
  4. Diagnostic assessment tools for assessing young children's achievement and progress and for the purpose of early intervention.
  5. Formal and informal assessment tools and strategies.
  6. Current principles and policies of observations, assessment and evaluation.

Learning Experience

ON-CAMPUS

Students will attend on campus classes as well as engage in learning activities through ECU's LMS

JoondalupMount LawleySouth West (Bunbury)
Semester 212 x 1 hour lecture12 x 1 hour lecture12 x 1 hour lecture
Semester 212 x 2 hour tutorial12 x 2 hour tutorial12 x 2 hour tutorial

For more information see the Semester Timetable

ONLINE

Students will engage in learning experiences via ECU’s LMS as well as additional ECU learning technologies

Additional Learning Experience Information

Guest Speakers

Assessment

GS1 GRADING SCHEMA 1 Used for standard coursework units

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant School Progression Panel.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescriptionValue
TestOnline LMS Quiz10%
AssignmentAssignment50%
ExaminationExamination40%
ONLINE
TypeDescriptionValue
TestOnline LMS Quiz10%
AssignmentAssignment50%
ExaminationExamination40%

Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005)

For the purposes of considering a request for Reasonable Adjustments under the Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005), inherent requirements for this subject are articulated in the Unit Description, Learning Outcomes and Assessment Requirements of this entry. The University is dedicated to provide support to those with special requirements. Further details on the support for students with disabilities or medical conditions can be found at the Access and Inclusion website.

Academic Integrity

Integrity is a core value at Edith Cowan University, and it is expected that ECU students complete their assessment tasks honestly and with acknowledgement of other people's work. This means that assessment tasks must be completed individually (unless it is an authorised group assessment task) and any sources used must be referenced.

Breaches of academic integrity can include:

Plagiarism

Copying the words, ideas or creative works of other people, without referencing in accordance with stated University requirements. Students need to seek approval from the Unit Coordinator within the first week of study if they intend to use some of their previous work in an assessment task (self-plagiarism).

Unauthorised collaboration (collusion)

Working with other students and submitting the same or substantially similar work or portions of work when an individual submission was required. This includes students knowingly providing others with copies of their own work to use in the same or similar assessment task(s).

Contract cheating

Organising a friend, a family member, another student or an external person or organisation (e.g. through an online website) to complete or substantially edit or refine part or all of an assessment task(s) on their behalf.

Cheating in an exam

Using or having access to unauthorised materials in an exam or test.

Serious outcomes may be imposed if a student is found to have committed one of these breaches, up to and including expulsion from the University for repeated or serious acts.

ECU's policies and more information about academic integrity can be found on the student academic integrity website.

All commencing ECU students are required to complete the Academic Integrity Module.

Assessment Extension

In some circumstances, Students may apply to their Unit Coordinator to extend the due date of their Assessment Task(s) in accordance with ECU's Assessment, Examination and Moderation Procedures - for more information visit https://askus2.ecu.edu.au/s/article/000001386.

Special Consideration

Students may apply for Special Consideration in respect of a final unit grade, where their achievement was affected by Exceptional Circumstances as set out in the Assessment, Examination and Moderation Procedures - for more information visit https://askus2.ecu.edu.au/s/article/000003318.

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School: Education

This unit information may be updated and amended immediately prior to semester. To ensure you have the correct outline, please check it again at the beginning of semester.

Your unit may be subject to government or third party COVID-19 vaccination requirements. Please consider this before enrolling in this unit, and speak with the unit coordinator if this raises any concerns.

  • Unit Title

    Assessing and Evaluating Young Children's Learning
  • Unit Code

    ECS2260
  • Year

    2022
  • Enrolment Period

    2
  • Version

    1
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
    Online
  • Unit Coordinator

    Mrs Amanda HOFFENSETZ

Description

This unit focuses on authentic assessment and evaluation practices of young children's learning in early childhood settings. It explores the processes used to collect, document, monitor, interpret and critically analyse assessment data and to report on children's learning and development. Students will explore the issues and challenges as outlined in contemporary educational research. Students will examine a range of formal and informal assessment methods with reference to current theoretical and practical perspectives. The implications for making professional judgements about teaching and children's development and learning will be explored.

Prerequisite Rule

Students must have successfully completed ECS1240.

Equivalent Rule

Unit was previously coded ECS3260.

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Examine ways of responding to assessment data in order to report to systems and families.
  2. Design appropriate assessment plans for implementation across a range of early childhood education and care settings.
  3. Critically analyse the theories of assessment as a basis for future planning and teaching.
  4. Analyse observations and make explicit links to the documentation of children's development and learning.
  5. Analyse, design and use a range of appropriate observation and assessment methods across early childhood education and care settings.

Unit Content

  1. Communicating with stakeholders about childrens' progress and achievements.
  2. Ways of documenting children's learning and development using the assessment, planning and teaching cycle.
  3. Interpreting observation and assessment data and making professional judgements about future learning and development.
  4. Diagnostic assessment tools for assessing young children's achievement and progress and for the purpose of early intervention.
  5. Formal and informal assessment tools and strategies.
  6. Current principles and policies of observations, assessment and evaluation.

Learning Experience

ON-CAMPUS

Students will attend on campus classes as well as engage in learning activities through ECU's LMS

JoondalupMount LawleySouth West (Bunbury)
Semester 212 x 1 hour lecture12 x 1 hour lecture12 x 1 hour lecture
Semester 212 x 2 hour tutorial12 x 2 hour tutorial12 x 2 hour tutorial

For more information see the Semester Timetable

ONLINE

Students will engage in learning experiences via ECU’s LMS as well as additional ECU learning technologies

Additional Learning Experience Information

Guest Speakers

Assessment

GS1 GRADING SCHEMA 1 Used for standard coursework units

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant School Progression Panel.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescriptionValue
TestOnline LMS Quiz10%
AssignmentAssignment50%
ExaminationExamination40%
ONLINE
TypeDescriptionValue
TestOnline LMS Quiz10%
AssignmentAssignment50%
ExaminationExamination40%

Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005)

For the purposes of considering a request for Reasonable Adjustments under the Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005), inherent requirements for this subject are articulated in the Unit Description, Learning Outcomes and Assessment Requirements of this entry. The University is dedicated to provide support to those with special requirements. Further details on the support for students with disabilities or medical conditions can be found at the Access and Inclusion website.

Academic Integrity

Integrity is a core value at Edith Cowan University, and it is expected that ECU students complete their assessment tasks honestly and with acknowledgement of other people's work. This means that assessment tasks must be completed individually (unless it is an authorised group assessment task) and any sources used must be referenced.

Breaches of academic integrity can include:

Plagiarism

Copying the words, ideas or creative works of other people, without referencing in accordance with stated University requirements. Students need to seek approval from the Unit Coordinator within the first week of study if they intend to use some of their previous work in an assessment task (self-plagiarism).

Unauthorised collaboration (collusion)

Working with other students and submitting the same or substantially similar work or portions of work when an individual submission was required. This includes students knowingly providing others with copies of their own work to use in the same or similar assessment task(s).

Contract cheating

Organising a friend, a family member, another student or an external person or organisation (e.g. through an online website) to complete or substantially edit or refine part or all of an assessment task(s) on their behalf.

Cheating in an exam

Using or having access to unauthorised materials in an exam or test.

Serious outcomes may be imposed if a student is found to have committed one of these breaches, up to and including expulsion from the University for repeated or serious acts.

ECU's policies and more information about academic integrity can be found on the student academic integrity website.

All commencing ECU students are required to complete the Academic Integrity Module.

Assessment Extension

In some circumstances, Students may apply to their Unit Coordinator to extend the due date of their Assessment Task(s) in accordance with ECU's Assessment, Examination and Moderation Procedures - for more information visit https://askus2.ecu.edu.au/s/article/000001386.

Special Consideration

Students may apply for Special Consideration in respect of a final unit grade, where their achievement was affected by Exceptional Circumstances as set out in the Assessment, Examination and Moderation Procedures - for more information visit https://askus2.ecu.edu.au/s/article/000003318.

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