Schools are looking for ways they can
use the kindergarten entry tools to tailor classroom practices with children's academic, social, and physical development needs in mind.
Not exact matches
Comprehensive Assessment Systems - For the 2014 - 2015 school year, the Massachusetts
Kindergarten Entry Assessment (MKEA) initiative was expanded to reach 173 school districts across the state, assessing over 36,000 students
using a valid and reliable formative assessment tool.
Another study, co-authored by Elizabeth Cascio and Diane Schanzenbach,
uses data from the well - known Project STAR experiment in which students were randomly assigned to classrooms prior to
kindergarten entry.
3) There are only two
entry points:
kindergarten (with a waitlist that gets closed in second grade), and high school (at 7th grade, not the 9th grade
entry point the public schools
use).
Cascio's paper
uses data collected on children born in 2001 and followed through
kindergarten entry by the National Center for Education Statistics» Early Childhood Longitudinal Study.
One way for schools and
kindergarten teachers to tailor instruction to meet the needs of individual students is through
using data from a
kindergarten entry assessment (KEA).
Math skills at
kindergarten entry (the ability to recognize numbers, problem solve,
use reasoning skills, and apply knowledge) are increasingly seen as an even better predictor of later academic success than early reading ability.
Information and Resources on Developing State Policy on
Kindergarten Entry Assessments (KEA) provides information about KEA measures
used by other states, the processes states have
used to develop their KEA state policy, and how states are supporting the training and professional development of practitioners and administrators in various settings.
Parent Surveys at
Kindergarten Entry is a supplementary document that provides examples of questionnaires in use by different schools and shows the range of information that can be gathered from parents at the time of kinderg
Kindergarten Entry is a supplementary document that provides examples of questionnaires in use by different schools and shows the range of information that can be gathered from parents at the time of kindergarten e
Entry is a supplementary document that provides examples of questionnaires in
use by different schools and shows the range of information that can be gathered from parents at the time of
kindergartenkindergarten entryentry.
In this pilot study a randomised control trial was
used to examine the effects of a school - based engagement intervention on parent adherence to recommendations for children screened for social, emotional, behavioural, and adaptive problems at
kindergarten entry.
This study
uses nationally representative data from the US Early Childhood Longitudinal Study, Birth Cohort (ECLS - B) to examine the magnitude of SES gradients in reading and math ability at
kindergarten entry and the independent contribution of factors in the family background, health, home learning, parenting, and early education domains to these gradients.
Results indicate that being in the KITS intervention prior to
kindergarten entry was associated with having less positive attitudes towards alcohol
use and antisocial behavior in third grade, 4 years after children participated in the intervention.
Comprehensive Assessment Systems - For the 2014 - 2015 school year, the Massachusetts
Kindergarten Entry Assessment (MKEA) initiative was expanded to reach 173 school districts across the state, assessing over 36,000 students
using a valid and reliable formative assessment tool.
Ohio has designed a professional development series to support the
use of assessment in programs serving children from birth through
kindergarten entry.
Teachers can continue
using Teaching Strategies GOLD beyond
kindergarten entry to measure progress and guide instructional decisions, and states can customize it to their specifications.
She recently completed case studies of the implementation and
use of
kindergarten entry assessments by early adopters of statewide assessment programs.
Similarly, her recent study of the
use of
kindergarten entry assessments generated important insights into the conditions and supports necessary for these assessments to be effective at improving student learning; these findings are helping the U.S. Department of Education to provide better technical assistance and states to develop and refine their own
kindergarten entry assessment processes.
We
use data on children born to teen mothers from three waves of the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study - Birth Cohort (N ~ 700) to study the association of family background with children's standardized reading and mathematics achievement scores at
kindergarten entry.