Sen, Rekha Sharma and Bhargava, Shruti
(2014)
Assessment in early years education.
Learning Curve (22).
pp. 36-39.
Abstract
Assessment is an integral part of the education
process. For most of us the word ‘assessment’
conjures images of an examination hall, marks and
report card, and the look of dissatisfaction on the
face of the elders as our marks often never matched
the expectation they had of us. Fear and insecurity
would perhaps be the emotions most commonly
associated with the word ‘assessment’. This picture
of assessment is a consequence of a product
oriented approach to education which sees
education as the means to slot a large number of
individuals into a few neat categories – bright,
average, dull or intelligent, average, failure. These
labels, awarded early, become self-fulfilling and
stick with the individual for the rest of her life,
influencing her approach to tasks even when she is
out of the education system, so to say. Education,
instead of being a process of empowerment, divests
the individual of self confidence and self esteem.
And this process begins right from the early years
education in a pre-school.
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