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Measuring progress

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Assessment is a crucial part of early years education. It provides valuable insights into children’s progress, and can help you to plan and support the next stages of their learning and development.

The Cambridge Early Years programme includes tools and resources that can help early years settings to assess and evaluate a child’s learning and development against the learning statements within the Cambridge Early Years curriculum framework. The use of continuous formative assessment through observations and gathering evidence during learning is central to our approach.

Our assessment resources:

  • give you guidance on the key principles of early years assessment - from observation of learning (when evidence is gathered), and evaluation (when evidence is analysed), to planning for next steps (when evidence is acted upon)
  • help you to make effective judgements about the development of your young learners
  • explain how standardised assessments such as the Cambridge Early Years Check Together can complement your judgements within the assessment process.

Cambridge Early Years Check Together

Cambridge Early Years Check Together is a fun and engaging story-based assessment for young learners. It gives you an objective picture of what your learners know and can do when they join you, and helps you to track the progress they make during this crucial stage of development.

It also provides you with:

  • information to help tailor learning and support each child
  • reliable insight into each child’s stage of development across key areas
  • measure progress throughout early years - at a child, class and whole-centre level
  • easy-to-use reports that can help you provide key information to parents.

How does it work?

The assessment:

  • is quick and easy to use
  • covers early literacy, early numeracy, and personal, social and emotional development
  • is computer-based, and completed one-to-one with each individual learner
  • adapts to the learner’s answers to give a personalised assessment experience
  • is automatically marked online, and provides detailed feedback reports about each child’s performance.
  • is tried and tested, and was developed in collaboration with centres in India.

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