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Evaluation and Recording Home Education
The easiest and quickest way to build confidence in home educating your children is to keep records. You don't have to keep meticulous records every day, though it certainly helps, but collating a sample of what's happening at home and analysing it educationally every so often will help to boost confidence AND keep the homeschooling learning program on track.
Home educators are notorious for underestimating the power of keeping records of their children's learning. Few understand the many benefits and many regard record keeping as a tiresome chore. I know what I know about education, learning and helping children learn at home because I kept records. The evidence I collated (rather haphazardly over a dozen years) became the germ of a book, Getting Started with Homeschooling Practical Considerations, and then a series of Practical Homeschooling Booklets.
On this website you will find a growing collection of articles that aim to encoruage you to maintain some kind of record keeping and evaluation regime as a home educator. There are lots of tips and ideas and many examples. If you'd like to share how you keep records or plan and monitor your children's learning at home we'd love to hear from you.
Keeping Records
- Reasons to Keep Regular Homeschooling Records Beverley Paine
- Planning and recording - valuable tools for building confidence as home educators Beverley Paine
- What To Record Beverley Paine
- Types Of Recording Beverley Paine
- Homeschooling Recording Made Easy Using Snapshots of Every Day Life Learning at Home Beverley Paine
- Adding Evaluative Comments to Children's Work Samples Beverley Paine
Assessment and Monitoring of Progress
- The Role of Grades, Levels, and Tests in the Homeschool Beverley Paine
- Specific Areas To Consider In The Evaluation Process Beverley Paine
- How to Involve The Children in Evaluating and Recording Homeschool Progress Beverley Paine
- Common Techniques to Help You Evaluate Your Children's Learning at Home Beverley Paine
- Adding Evaluative Comments to Children's Work Samples Beverley Paine
- Recording and Evaluation: The Role of Observation and Reflection Beverley Paine
- Review Time Esther Marshall
- 8 Reasons Why Recording Home Education is Useful Beverley Paine
- Overcoming the Natural Learning Homeschooling Recording Blues... Beverley Paine
Samples of Homeschool Records
See also Example Homeschool Learning Programs Index
- The Paine Family Home Based Learning Philosophy 1998
- Recording Example: Homeschooling Calendar from January to June 1996
- Recording Example: A Homeschooling Week from our Diary Beverley Paine
- Recording Example: A Day from Our Homeschooling Diary Beverley Paine
- A Learning Naturally Curriculum for my Adolescent Son Beverley Paine
Websites
- Homeschool Evaluation
- Portfolio Assessment This article, by Ana McDonald, was originally published in the January-February 1996 issue of Home Education Magazine.
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They began homeschooling in 1986 and three years later started the
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