Nursery World - Learning & Development: Assessment

Ferre Laevers' Process-Oriented Monitoring System builds on his
'well-being' and 'involvement' scales to create a highly sensitive form
of assessment. Jan Dubiel takes a look at how it works.

The work of Professor Ferre Laevers has been one of the most powerful influences in developing our perceptions of how children learn and the preconditions necessary to make them successful learners. It has been critical for enabling practitioners to recognise and describe both the 'essentials for learning' and how these 'essentials' manifest themselves in a child's play and behaviour.

His research focuses on how we can help children to become more effective learners, in addition to the 'content' of what they know and can do. As well as developing a tool with which to 'measure' these important aspects of development - the Leuven Scales - Laevers' work shows how practitioners can use this information to account for and support children's learning through the The Process-Oriented Monitoring System (POMS).

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