Assessing young learners’ progress against key milestones is a crucial part of early years education. It helps you to understand where your input has been most successful and effectively plan future learning. Our approach is based around continuous formative assessment, including observations of children in the learning environment and evidence gathered during learning.
We give you everything you need to assess and evaluate each child’s development against the learning statements within the Cambridge Early Years curriculum framework.
Our assessment resources:
- give you guidance on the key principles of early years assessment – from observation of learning (when evidence is gathered), and evaluation (when evidence is analysed), to planning for next steps (when evidence is acted on)
- help you to make effective judgements about your learners’ development
We recommend you use Cambridge Early Years Check Together, our digital assessment tool, to complement your observational assessment.