The background survey will include five core areas — grit, desire for learning, school climate, technology use, and socioeconomic status — of which the first two focus on a student's noncognitive skills, and the third looks
at noncognitive factors in the school.
In fact, socioeconomic status is the single largest
factor influencing children's school readiness, according to Inequalities
at the Starting Gate: Cognitive and
Noncognitive Gaps among the 2010 — 2011 Kindergarten Classmates.