The uses of technology to support early childhood practice: Instruction and assessment

Description:

This brief describes examples of how technology may support instruction and assessment of young children (Topic Area 1). It does not review technologies intended for independent child-use or technologies that require little or no direct practitioner involvement. In addition, the brief describes barriers to and facilitators of practitioners' effective use of technology to support early childhood practice. This brief is purely descriptive of the technologies that are currently available and makes no recommendations or endorsements of individual technologies, products, or programs. (author abstract)

Resource Type:

Fact Sheets & Briefs

Author(s):

Hernandez Marc W.; Markovitz Carrie E.; Estrera Elc; Kelly Gayle

Publisher(s):

United States. Administration for Children and Families. Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation

Funder(s):

United States. Administration for Children and Families

Country:

United States

Date Issued:

March, 2015

Source:

(OPRE Report 2015-39). Washington, DC: U.S. Administration for Children and Families, Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation. Retrieved from https://www.acf.hhs.gov/sites/default/files/opre/brief1_instructionassessment_508.pdf

Note:

The project officer is Kathleen Dwyer. The contractor is NORC at the University of Chicago. The project director is Marc Hernandez.

Topics:

8. Service Delivery

6. Programs, Interventions & Curricula > 6.2. Interventions/Curricula

1. Children & Child Development > 1.2. Child Development & School Readiness > 1.2.1. Assessment & Measurement

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