Sentences with phrase «using kindergarten assessments»

In this Spotlight, learn how schools are using kindergarten assessments to shape instruction, targeting early educators for professional development in math, and developing elementary students into global citizens.

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Some state departments of education have also begun using kindergarten readiness assessments to help shape state early education policy and programs.

If your kindergartener is given an assessment in the first few weeks of kindergarten the results will probably be used by your child's teacher for lesson planning for the remainder of the year.

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.

In New South Wales, school educators use the Best Start one - on - one assessment to map students» literacy and numeracy skills at the beginning of Kindergarten.

All 3,500 kindergarten teachers in Maryland are using a new readiness assessment this year that rests on teachers» observations of children's work and play to build a detailed picture of what they need as they begin the school year.

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).

-- Matt Trask, a secondary senior physics teacher is having students make musical instruments to learn about wavelength — Kelly Skehill using design and software for students to apply calculus models to create new pop bottle designs — teachers are using technology to capture assessment information during the learning process — one particular good example at PJ Elementary — Kindergarten teacher (Sonia Southam) using iPads to engage parents and transform communication by capturing daily learning and sharing immediately via email with parents — the creation of Gleneagles Learning Lab Open House to showcase the process of learning — a teacher created Social Dynamics course for students with high functioning autism — the creation of an outdoor learning program for grades 6/7 students at Bowen Island Community School (Scott Slater created) that has students blending in - class and outdoor learning experiences

This paper examines parents» reactions to the use of a curriculum - embedded performance assessment ---- the Work Sampling System (WSS)---- with their kindergarten — third grade children.

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.

Also included is the name and description of the instrument or system used for kindergarten readiness assessment in six states.

The nonprofit National Center for Fair and Open Testing, known as FairTest, which fights the misuse of government - mandated standardized tests, says on its website that the average student takes 112 tests between kindergarten and 12th grade and that the assessments «are frequently used in ways that do not reflect the abilities of students of color, English language learners, children with disabilities, and low - income youth.»

«The first year I was teaching at North Star, we used another reading assessment,» said Juliana Worrell, a kindergarten teacher who joined North Star in 2007 and who now serves as principal of North Star's Alexander Street Elementary campus which opened in 2014.

The most frequent effect was for kindergarten teachers, who used assessments less frequently than teachers in higher grades, and who also had more positive perceptions of the impact of assessment on parents» involvement and administrators» knowledge and use.

As early learning programs expand, states and schools are increasingly using kindergarten readiness assessments (KRAs) to measure the developmental progress of children as they enter kindergarten.

Perhaps kindergarten teachers use assessments primarily for screening, placement, and designing developmentally - appropriate activities, and less for comparative or accountability purposes.

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Other assessments used in NHPs to identify anxious individuals include the Human Intruder Test (equivalent to the human Strange Situation assessment developed by Ainsworth; Ainsworth and Bell 1970; Ainsworth et al. 1978; see Coleman et al., this volume), the Novel Object Test (incorporated into the Strange Situation but also studied independently; see Bronson 1972 and Fox 1989), and the transition to new peer group formation (equivalent to the transition to preschool or kindergarten in humans, studied by numerous developmental psychologists and neuroscientists; see Groeneveld et al. 2013; Gunnar et al. 2003; Ladd and Price 1987; Russ et al. 2012; Turner - Cobb et al. 2008).

The Evaluation of Child and Family Outcomes workgroup created a subgroup to develop an Assessment Overview document which can be used to understand the various types of assessments that feed into an overall picture of pre-K progress and / or kindergarten readiness.

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.

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 (WaKIkindergarten children in Washington state as part of the Washington Kindergarten Inventory of Developing Skills (WaKIKindergarten Inventory of Developing Skills (WaKIDS) program.

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.

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).