The Work Sampling System (WSS) is a performance-based assessment instrument designed to help classroom teachers document and evaluate children's development and accomplishments. The WSS is based on national and state standards and has been customized to conform to the Head Start Child Outcomes Framework. This system reaches across a wide variety of curriculum areas and developmental domains. It is an authentic assessment that documents activities in which children engage on a daily basis. Children are observed during regular classroom activities and their progress is recorded three times a year with a Developmental Checklist, a portfolio collection, and a summary report. This type of authentic assessment through careful observation and documentation gives teachers in-depth knowledge of children, which helps to plan instruction that is more responsive to individual children as well as to the class as a whole.

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