Evaluating children

... TMA 02 E230 Evaluating Children's Knowledge In this assignment I will endeavour to pinpoint two well-established areas of knowledge and two emerging areas of knowledge from watching two short observations of two different groups of children playing with blocks. I am aware that it would be 'unfair, from one activity with such little evidence, to draw firm conclusions about what these children actually know.' (Block 2, Part 2, Pg. 85) and therefore these are my opinions regarding the children's level of knowledge taken from two very brief observation. The first incident that I believe significantly demonstrates well-established knowledge is in the area of mathematical development and takes place during the observation of three girls. During this observation Girl 2 is sorting some building blocks with a friend and as she's doing this she tells her friend, "I do the big ones 'cos I'm allowed the big ones. That, yeah, you can do that one

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