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ECC 703 Assessment Checklist

This child development checklist contains 9 areas of development including self-esteem, emotional competence, social competence, physical development, cognitive development, spoken language, emergent writing and reading skills, art/music/dance skills, and dramatic play skills. For each skill, the observer can check if the child demonstrates it regularly, has no opportunity to observe it, or leave it blank. The purpose is to track a child's progress in important developmental areas over time using observations, recordings, and other methods.

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ECC 703 Assessment Checklist

This child development checklist contains 9 areas of development including self-esteem, emotional competence, social competence, physical development, cognitive development, spoken language, emergent writing and reading skills, art/music/dance skills, and dramatic play skills. For each skill, the observer can check if the child demonstrates it regularly, has no opportunity to observe it, or leave it blank. The purpose is to track a child's progress in important developmental areas over time using observations, recordings, and other methods.

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Child Development Checklist

(From “Observing Development of the Young Child” by Janice J. Beaty)

Child’s Name: Observer:

DOB: Dates:

Program:

Directions:
Put a  for items you see the child perform regularly. Put N for items where there is
no opportunity to observe. Leave all others blank.

Item Evidence Date


1. Self-Esteem
___ Separate from primary
caregivers without difficulty
___ Develop a secure
attachment with teacher
___ Complete a task
successfully
___ Make activity choices
without teacher’s help
___ Stand up for own rights
___ Display enthusiasm about
doing things for self
___ Be observed by using
running record and checklist
2. Emotional Competence
___ Release stressful feelings
in appropriate manner
___ Experss anger in words
rather than negative actions
___ Be calmed in frightening
situations
___ Shows fondness, affection,
love toward others
___ Shows interest/attention in
classroom activities
___ Smiles seems happy much
of the time
___ Be observed by using
sampling and checklist
3. Social Competence
___ Plays by self with own
toys/materials
___ Plays parallel to others with
similar toys/materials

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Item Evidence Date
___ Plays with others in group
play
___ Gains access to play in a
positive manner
___ Makes friends with other
children
___ Resolves play conflicts in a
positive manner
___ Be observed by using
running records and checklist
4. Physical Development
___ Runs with control over
speed and direction
___ Climbs up and down
climbing equipment with ease
___ Throws, catches and kicks

___ Turns knobs, lids, and


eggbeaters
___ Pick up and insert objects
with dexterity
___ Use tools (scissors,
hammers) with control
___ Be observed by using
rating scales and checklist
5. Cognitive Development
___ Classify objects by shape,
color, size
___ Places objects in a
sequence or series

___ Counts by rote up to 20


___ Display 1-to-1
correspondence with numbers
___ Problem solve with
concrete objects
___ Make thinking visible
___ Be observed by using
rating scales and checklist
6. Spoken Language
___ Listens but does not speak
___ Gives single word, short
phrase response

___ Takes part in conversations


___ Speaks in expanded
sentences
___ Asks questions

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Item Evidence Date
___ Can tell a story

___ Be observed by using


recordings and checklist
7. Emergent Writing and
Reading Skills
___ Pretends to write with
drawings and scribbles
___ Makes horizontal lines of
scribbles
___ Makes some letters, prints
name or initial
___ Holds book right-side up;
turns pages left to right
___ Pretends to read using
pictures to tell the story
___ Show awareness that print
in books tells the story
___ Be observed by using
rubrics and checklist
8. Art, Music, and Dance
Skills
___ Make basic scribble shapes
___ Draw a person as a sun-
face with arms and legs
___ Make pictorial drawings
___ Move arms and hands in
rhythm to a beat
___ Play rhythm instruments
___ Sing with group or by
him/herself
___ Move body to represent
people, animals, feelings
___ Dance with others to music
___ Be observed through their
products or by photos,
audiotapes, videos, or checklist
9. Dramatic Play Skills
___ Does pretend play by
him/herself
___ Assign roles or take
assigned roles
___ Needs particular props to
pretend play
___ Takes on characteristics &
actions related to role
___ Uses language for creating
& sustaining the plot

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Item Evidence Date
___ Enacts exciting, danger-
packed themes

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