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Record Nr.

UNINA9910822434903321

Autore

Nutbrown Cathy

Titolo

Recognising early literacy development : assessing children's achievements / / Cathy Nutbrown

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, : Paul Chapman Pub., c1997

ISBN

1-283-88147-0

1-4462-6549-8

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xiii, 142 p.)

Disciplina

372.6

Soggetti

Reading (Early childhood) - Ability testing

Education

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p.[131]-136) and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Acknowledgements; Foreword; Chapter 1 - Issues in Assessing Early Literancy Development; Chapter 2 - New Views of Early Literacy Development and the Need for Measurement; Chapter 3 - Official Recognition of Early Literacy Development in the UK; Chapter 4 - Three Decades of Measuring and Assessing Early Literacy Development; Chapter 5 - The Purposes of Assessing Early Literacy Development; Chapter 6 - Purpose and Practice in Early Literacy Assessment; Chapter 7 - A New Measure for Research in Early Literacy Development; Endwords

Appendix 1: The Sheffield Early Literacy Development ProfileReferences; Subject Index; Author Index

Sommario/riassunto

'Recognising Early Literacy Development' presents a new view of the many purposes of assessment in this field. The author reviews three decades of policy and practice with children aged 3-5 to proposals in 1997 for official assessment at five years.