The Kindergarten Readiness Stakeholder Committee, convened by the Illinois State Board of Education, has issued recommendations for creating a statewide, research -
based kindergarten assessment process to provide schools and educational leaders with age - appropriate information about children's developing knowledge and skills in A New Beginning: The Illinois Kindergarten Individual Development Survey
Not exact matches
Completed by FCR — STEM in summer 2015, the Mathematics Formative
Assessment System (MFAS) Grades K - Geometry project was designed to produce a web -
based formative
assessment system aligned with the Mathematics Florida Standards for
kindergarten through geometry.
The
Kindergarten Education Profile (KEP): Promoting Coherence in Pre-K to 3rd Grade Teaching and Learning through Standards -
Based Assessments 9:45 am - 10:45 am Audience - Early Learning, Lead Teachers / Teachers, Principals, Student Support
The push toward standardized test scores like the PARCC, Stanford and other knowledge -
based assessments has encouraged this laser focus, but it means that in many
kindergarten, 1st grade and 2nd grade classrooms science and social sciences get short shrift.
Taking Stock: Assessing and Improving Early Childhood Learning and Program Quality provides recommendations from the National Early Childhood Accountability Task Force convened to address a comprehensive vision for a state accountability system for early education programs for prekindergarten children and for linking such efforts to standards -
based assessment efforts in
kindergarten and the primary grades.
Bair continues, «Other
assessment tools apply grade -
based caps — for example, we can't give a
kindergarten student the first - grade Idaho Reading Indicator (IRI)
assessment.
Bethesda, MD, October 20, 2011 — Teaching Strategies is pleased to announce that its observation -
based assessment system, Teaching Strategies GOLD ®, is being used to assess incoming
kindergarten children in Washington state as part of the Washington Kindergarten Inventory of Developing Skills (WaKI
kindergarten children in Washington state as part of the Washington
Kindergarten Inventory of Developing Skills (WaKI
Kindergarten Inventory of Developing Skills (WaKIDS) program.
She also serves as senior staff to the development of a formative
assessment for
kindergarten to grade 3
based on learning progressions.
This work included leading alignment studies, examining the technical adequacy of multiple preK - 3 performance -
based assessments, and working with contractors to explore the empirical alignment and relative difficulty of four
kindergarten entry
assessments related to the standards.
[jounal] Haapasalo, J. / 2000 / Relative advantageds of person - and variable -
based approach for predicting problem behaviors from
kindergarten assessments / Journal of Quantitative Criminology 16 (2): 146 ~ 168
Assessments were completed during the
kindergarten year, and developmental health was measured using the Early Development Instrument (EDI), a
kindergarten teacher - completed checklist for each child
based on five scaled measures of development: physical well - being, social competence, emotional maturity, language and cognitive development, and communication and general knowledge (Janus and Offord 2000).