Assessing Childern

 An assessment in public schools only focus on cognitive even for three and four year old student. As a pre-k teacher I believe it is important that children are assess in all domains  and they are assess in the proper way. I believe that the teacher or assessor should have the correct assessment tool and the assessment should be on the child age- developmental level. An assessment should not just be geared on one domain but all developmental domains emotion-social, physical- gross motors and cognitive especially for young 3/4 yr old children. Just assessing in one area will not give you a clear picture of the whole child. I think as children get older that is when  we should begin to look more closely at one area for example public school(kinder).   I believe we need an assessment in our daycare centers and pre- schools because it gives a teacher a starting point for a child and provides information on a child's strength and weakness. The  reason is because an assessment could be shared with the other teachers and passed on as the child moves on and gets older.  Overall an assessment helps the overall growth and development of a child.
In Hong Kong children are assess by a standardize test called "Hong Kong Examination and Assessment Authority" the test is designated to measure a child's knowledge and skill. Hong Kong has recently went under an education reform and have adopted a new assessment entitle "School Based Assessment" this assessment primary goal is to assess the students by one written examination and to help validate the previous assessment.

Chan, K. K., & Cheung, F. (2007). School-based assessment: Changing the assessment culture. HKEAA.