For Practitioners

How to Authentically and Virtually Collect Information About What Young Children Know and Can Do: A Guide for Practitioners

This resource provides practitioners with an overview of the skills needed to conduct virtual assessments. It is designed for practitioners who already know how to conduct high quality in person authentic assessments.

Tips to Help Families Prepare

This tipsheet for families provides easy to use advice to prepare for a virtual assessment.

What to Expect During a Virtual Assessment (Families)

This 2-page resource helps families understand what virtual assessment is and how it can benefit their child and family.

A Checklist to Help Programs and Practitioners Know if They Are Doing Authentic Assessment

This checklist can be completed for an individual practitioner or for an entire program.

Scan of Professional Organizations

We conducted an online review of 17 professional organizations relevant to the assessment of young children with disabilities to identify position statements, guidance documents, and other resources related to telepractice and the use of VA.

Methodology for the Interviews About Virtual Assessment in Early Intervention and Early Childhood Special Education

Learn about how programs were using technology to conduct authentic assessments with young children who may have a disability or have been identified with one.

Considerations for Using VA for Different Assessment Purposes in Early Intervention and Early Childhood Special Education

Considerations that are unique to using virtual assessment (VA) for each of the six purposes for which children are assessed as part of early intervention (EI) and early childhood special education (ECSE) programs.

Benefits and Challenges of Using Virtual Assessment in Early Intervention and Early Childhood Special Education

This resource provides a summary of the benefits and challenges of virtual assessment for early intervention and early childhood special educcation and the validity of assessment information collected virtually.

Deciding if VA is a Good Fit for Your Program

Designed to help early intervention (EI) and early childhood special education (ECSE) programs decide if virtual assessment (VA) is a good fit for them. The tool can be completed by an individual or a team.

Authentic Assessment in Early Intervention (EI) and Early Childhood Special Education (ECSE) Infographic

This infographic describes key features of authentic assessment, a best practice in EI and ECSE, including how information can be collected and why programs should use it.