General Educational Development (GED)

Portfolio Assessment is a collection or compilation of student's work. Portfolio Assessment is different from Traditional Testing and other Authentic Assessment. Why? Because portfolio assessment is a broader measure of a student’s knowledge compared to traditional testing and it shows more productivity than other Authentic Assessment. Portfolio does not represent only a mere collection of the student's work but tells or shows the story of the student’s efforts, progress or achievement in given areas. Portfolio is indeed differ from other assessment tools because it is an indispensable tool of authentic assessment and viewed as an organized collection of evidence used by the teacher and student to monitor the growth of student’s knowledge, skills, and attitudes in a specific content area. Portfolio assessment measures a student’s ability to apply and use knowledge learned in classes and also portfolio has been extensively used in the field of teacher education in which portfolio has a vital role in developing an in-service or a pre-service trainee teacher into a trained one and carried out to monitor the overall performance that he/she developed during the course of training.

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To locate list of nearby testing centers, with their street addresses, telephone numbers, and the distance in miles from the ZIP Code you entered.

http://www.acenet.edu/resources/GED/center_locator.cfm

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inform public, expand body of knowledge of general public

psychoanalytic theory

The concepts of childhood and adolescence are relatively recent, dating from the second half of 18th century. Obviously, all societies have recognized a period of physical depedence up to about age 8-11. However, the notion of an extended period between that age and adulthood is fairly new. Before that, children aged, say 12 or 13, generally worked like adults, read the same books as adults, dressed like adults - and were (often) punished as adults. This is something of a simplification, as they didn't have the same rights as adults and there were some exceptions; nevertheless, it is a useful starting point. Literature written specifically for children only started to appear in the late 1770s, for example and if one looks at paintings from before about 1770 it is striking that young children dressed in the same way as adults. Until the 1950s there was no music aimed specifically at teenagers and arguably there were no specifically teenage clothing styles, either. Until well into the twentieth century the great majority of kids left school at age 14 and went straight into paid employment. In some cases they went into appreticeships, but essentially their formal education was over. The classic work on the subject is Phillippe Aries, Centuries of Childhood which first appeared in French in 1960. It has been translated into English and makes very interesting reading. Joncey

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Yes, but it must be approved! Most calculators state, "Can be used for GED" somewhere on them.

School trips are beneficial when they take young children to see plays and live performances that they would otherwise not have a chance to see. They are not beneficial when they are so expensive that most students cannot afford them.

Having a baby does not emancipate a person and neither does obtaining a GED. You are still a minor until you turn 18. yes you can you should be able to have 1 at any time

Obtaining a GED is easy, first you need to find where the test is administered. Sometimes they break the test up over a few days, or you can take the test all in one go. I would suggest studying though, as the test does cost money.

You can enroll in a community college if your eighteen years old or more. However, to declare a major you must at one point obtain your GED, or ability to benefit. You should meet with an enrollment specialist at your home county community college for detailed information. If you wish to pursue a college or university degree, you can. Just follow through until you achieve your goals. It's all doable.

I think that it is a felony offense and you could go to prison for giving misleading information and trying to deceive a government official

Characteristics of early learning

During the early childhood period children's learning across the various dimensions of development (for

example, physical, motor, linguistic, emotional) is greater than at any other period, but is also highly

variable across the dimensions. It also occurs very rapidly, is episodic in nature and is very susceptible to

environmental conditions (Shepard et al., 1998). These factors contribute to making the assessment of early

learning and development very challenging.

The nature of early learning

This section of the paper discusses the characteristics of early learning and identifies some key theoretical

constructs that guide the teaching, learning and assessment processes during early childhood. Theoretical

considerations have been influential in shaping new and emerging approaches to assessment and the most salient

of these are discussed in relation to their implications for the assessment of earlylearning and development.

How to assess early learning

This section of the paper explains the significance of a narrative approach to assessment in early childhood.

A number of methods of assessing children's early learning and development are discussed. The process of

documentation of information derived about children's learning is described with specific reference to the

work of practitioners in Reggio Emilia, in Northern Italy.

A narrative approach to assessment of learning in early childhood

Narrative or story approaches have been used by a number of educationalists both to understand practice

and to communicate with others their thoughts about that practice. Bruner (1999b, p. 175) describes narrative

as a mode of thought and a vehicle for meaning making. However, he also cautions that if narrative is to be

made an instrument of mind on behalf of meaning making, it requires work on our part -reading it, making it,

analyzing it, understanding its craft, sensing its uses, discussing it (p. 176). The implications then for narrative

assessments are that they are not ends in themselves, but must be used as tools for reflection and for sharing

with others in order to seek out possible other meanings. From Bruner's perspective then, narrative has both

a meaning-making function and a communicative one.

Paley's work (1979; 1981) provides us with an example of a practitioner who has made extensive use of

narrative in order to share her ethnographic observations of children. Her case-study narratives have been

published in a series of books beginning in 1979 and have continued for over two decades. They illustrate

her careful listening and deep reflection on what children had to say. Paley's work is of interest in relation

to assessment since it clearly illustrates how this particular practitioner continually modified her teaching

in response to her observations of children. Her use of the tape-recorder illustrates how reflection can be

achieved even in a busy early education setting and especially how it can be done in discussion with children.

Genishi (1992) too emphasises the importance of storying for conveying aspects of everyday experiences in

early childhood settings. The potential of stories as powerful tools was expressed by Witherell and Noddings

(1991, p. 280) when they stated;

They provide us with a picture of real people in real situations, struggling with real problems… They

invite us to speculate on what might be changed and with what effect.

Learning stories involve a narrative approach to assessment and we look at this credit-focused approach next.

Learning stories: A credit-focused approach

Carr (2001) and her colleagues in the early childhood community in New Zeal

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No. the GED is totally voluntary.

Wouldn't see why not as lots of high school aged kids can get their drivers licenses before graduation.

no you can get it at 16 bu ithas to be a court ordered but you mite as well just wait till 17the paper work will take about a year