Innovative Approaches to Evaluation in Early Childhood Education and Social Processes

Conceptual approach and discriminatory terms of evaluation and of assessment. The evaluation of education in Greece and the doubts that are being expressed nowadays. Positive and negative attitudes. Theoretical schemes and assessment forms. Diagnostic, formative, Summative assessment. The characteristics of the assessment process, objects, goals, methods and criteria of assessment. The assessment of the educational process and the self-assessment of the educator. The assessment of learning, assessment as learning and assessment for learning. Evaluation of pre-school education. Assessment in kindergarten classes. Formal and informal forms of assessment in kindergarten- strategies and practices. Descriptive assessment. The portfolio. The evaluation of the education institution/kindergarten. Internal evaluation, self-assessment of the schools in Greece and abroad. Internal evaluation models.