This one-of-a kind text offers students the most up-to-date information on alternative, authentic assessment in early childhood classrooms. In its second edition, Assessing and Guiding Young Children's Development and Learning, updates and strengthens areas of particular importance to assessment in early childhood education, such as practical guides for integrating assessment into teaching, numerous organizational aids to use or adapt for the needs of a particular classroom, expanded portfolio section that shows how to use this increasingly popular assessment tool, updated interpretation guides that reflect current understanding of children's thinking and learning, and effects of cultural diversity and socio-cultural context on assessment and interpretation.