Evaluating childrens performance is a complex and often negatively viewed process, especially when it comes to evaluating the performance of toddlers and preschool children. The purpose of this paper is to analyse the attitudes of various authors towards the concept of performance evaluation, and to present a survey on the positions of preschool teachers and students of the Early Childhood Education college course on carrying out the process of evaluation in educational institutions for preschool children. 57 respondents participated in the survey, 24 of which were the preschool teachers and 33 of which were the students. Both the survey respondents and contemporary authors exhibited differing attitudes towards the process of evaluating childrens performance. The results of the survey show a moderate average in relation to the topic, which means that the respondents are, to a certain degree, in favor of carrying out the process of performance evaluation in educational institutions for preschool children, while they may disagree on other statements. The students and preschool teachers approve of carrying out the process of performance evaluation to accustom children to the evaluation system in schools, and to facilitate reporting on the rate of improvement of a child's performance in the educational institutions to the experts assistants and parents.