After completing this Overview section, you will be able to:
- Explain how performance-based assessment helps adults understand what children know and can do.
- Describe how the Early Learning Scale (ELS), a developmentally appropriate performance-based assessment tool, helps assess children's progress.
- List and describe the five steps in the assessment process for the ELS.
Most importantly, you will see how using the Early Learning Scale (ELS) can improve your teaching by helping you support the children you teach as they learn and grow.
