Assesement of Children

        Viewing the child with a holistic view means to view every part of the childs enviormnet to see what makes up his daily world. This will include the school enviornment, home enviornment, behaviors, beliefs, and his relationships. Assessment is an important aspect of teaching and learning. In the early years of a child's life the assessenment should only concern the building of the childs confidence and desire to learn. At this level the main objective is providing information on the learning progress of the child. The home enviornment is an important aspect of the holistic view. I believe everything that a child does away from home starts at home. So the home ambience has to be looked at also. I believe when a child acts out there is a reason for it. The reason usually has to do with the child's life at home or at school. The child's belief plays a part because if you have a belief you have confidence and certainty. Last but not lease is relationships. The most important relationship is the bond you have with your parents. If the child relationships are not secure their may be acting out.
           Assessment in africa has been few except for the western tests. This test is not appropiate for rural African populations. The reason this is so is because the population in that setting has not be exposed to many of the pictures and exercises done during testing. The college of Medicine in Blantyre, Malawi and colleagues has designed a more culturally relevant assessment tool to be used with children in rural africa. A new assesnment tool was developed for the children in rural africa. The name of the game was chipapapa (a popular Malawian game) , or to feedthemselves pieces of nsima (a staple food of the country). The children that were assessed were between the ages of 0-6 years old. Any items that was proven to be too complicate were remove after statistical analysis.The Malawi Developmental Assessment Tool (MDAT) was born.
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