Assessment is a topic we talk about a lot in Child development. To me it means, a form of finding out how much a child knows and where there are different strengths and weaknesses in their work. There are different types of assessment. The one that I had to most growing up was testing. We had tests and standardized tests on everything. I do not think that this is necessarily wrong but, I do think that there are other ways in which a person can be assessed. I have learned many different ways of assessing students and I plan on doing more than just standardized testing with my students. I think in some cases, testing is important but in other cases, there are many other ways in order to assess an individual. I may do projects or ask the child to present on a topic. I could also take anecdotes in order to see how far a child is and how far he or she has come over the year.