Assessment and Data Systems in Early Childhood Settings

1. Using data systems to inform early childhood practice.- 2. Revisiting the roles of teachers as assessors of children's progress.- 3. The Collection and Use of Assessment information in Early Childhood Settings.- 4. Using digital tools to support STEM learning.- 5. An exploration of how e-portfolios shape how learning is supported, evidenced and communicated in early years education.- 6. Tools and time for noticing in early childhood pedagogy outdoors.- 7. Documentation as a tool for changing practices in Iceland.- 8. Using new tools to support a data, knowledge, action stance to explore children's experiences of curriculum.- 9. Using a variety of data collection methods to better understand students in physical education in primary schools.- 10. Disrupting the myths regarding young children's vulnerabilities by assessing emotional and social wellbeing.- 11. Dual purposes: Using children's self-assessment plans as summative data.- 12. Child-Voiced Assessment for Understanding Children's Learning and Transforming Pedagogic Practices.- 13. Children as assessors of their own learning- the power of listening to children's own reflections.- 14. Developing teachers' capacity to use data systems.- 15. Using Activity-Focused Assessment Within an Embedded Instruction Framework.- 16. Towards the future use of data systems in early years settings. 

Professor Claire McLachlan is Dean of the School of Education at Federation University, Australia. Prior to this appointment, Claire was Head of School for Te Hononga, the School of Curriculum and Pedagogy in the Faculty of Education, University of Waikato, New Zealand, from 2015-2018. Before this appointment, Claire was Professor of Childhood Education at Massey University, New Zealand, and taught courses on languages, literacies, cognition, pedagogy, assessment and evaluation. Her primary field of research is early childhood education and her platform of research is focused around literacy, physical activity, curriculum, pedagogy, assessment and evaluation. In addition to personal research, Claire has undertaken wide ranging evaluation research for three government Ministries in New Zealand: Education, Health and Social Development, as well as for government agencies such as the Alcohol Advisory Council and Sport New Zealand. Internationally, she has provided consultancy for the Semarang State University (UNNES) in Central Java, Indonesia, and the New Zealand Ministry of Foreign Affairs for education in Tokelau. She is currently Deputy President of the Victorian Council of Deans of Education and a current member of the UNESCO-IBE Early Reading Panel, the New Zealand Ministry of Education Early Childhood Research Policy Forum and the Australian Center for Policy Development's intergovernmental Council for Early Childhood Development.

Dr Tara McLaughlin is Senior Lecturer in Early Years Education and the founder and director of the Early Years research laboratory in New Zealand. Prior to this appointment, Tara was Research Scientist at the University of Florida in the Anita Zucker Center for Excellence in Early Childhood Studies, in the United States. Tara's teaching includes undergraduate and postgraduate papers in early years. As a teacher, teacher educator and researcher in Early Years, she is committed to supporting learning environments that