Teachers' perceptions and judgments of student skills are key to measuring children's academic progress. But educators' own ...

In the not-too-distant past, the kindergarten classrooms at Pleasant Grove Elementary in Heflin, Ala., looked much the same as classrooms for older children. Desks were arranged in rows.

An “exit inventory” also measures pupils’ skills as they prepare to leave kindergarten. How Used in Ohio: The state department of education’s “Kindergarten Readiness Assessment-Literacy ...

“It allows some uniformity to see what particular skills and concepts children have when they come into kindergarten,” Oakley said. “Having an assessment gives us that baseline data of where ...

The assessments were conducted in ... of fine and gross motor skill development," MacDonald said. "In kindergarten, children are playing games, socializing, lining up on the playground and more ...

Teachers then assessed the literacy or math skills of individual children ... has not fundamentally changed how assessment operates in play-based kindergarten classrooms. Rather, as teachers ...

designed to help Texas educators understand how to effectively monitor the progress of a student’s literacy skills based on assessment data. All kindergarten through third-grade teachers were to ...

The Kindergarten Readiness Assessment is used to evaluate early literary skills. According to MDE, research shows that 85 percent of students at the beginning of kindergarten with a score of 530 ...

Texas House lawmakers overwhelmingly supported a bill that could fund reading and math supports for early elementary students ...