Kindergarten Readiness Assessment FAQs - For Administrators
Components of the Kindergarten Readiness Assessment Revised
Kindergarten Readiness Assessment Revised and Other Assessment Requirements
Administering the Kindergarten Readiness Assessment
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Components of the Kindergarten Readiness Assessment Revised
What are the areas being assessed?
This Welcome to Kindergarten video introduces Ohio's Kindergarten Readiness Assessment. The assessment covers four areas: language and literacy, mathematics, physical well-being and motor development, and social foundations which includes social and emotional development and approaches toward learning.
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How are students assessed?
This Welcome to Kindergarten video introduces Ohio's Kindergarten Readiness Assessment. Students are assessed the following ways:
- Observation - Teachers will use a rubric with three description levels for the skill(s) being measured.
- Selected response questions – Teachers have a scripted prompt that could include a story or pictures and a question with answer choices.
- Performance tasks- These require an action or verbal response from the child in response to a scripted prompt, such as producing a rhyming word.
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Kindergarten Readiness Assessment Revised and Other Assessment Requirements
Do children who were retained in kindergarten need to be assessed?
No. Only children entering kindergarten for the first time are required to be assessed?
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How does the new assessment relate to the Third Grade Reading Guarantee?
The Language and Literacy portion of the Kindergarten Readiness Assessment Revised can be used to meet the Kindergarten diagnostic requirement for the Third Grade Reading Guarantee.
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Does the Kindergarten Readiness Assessment Revised replace the kindergarten screening requirement?
No. The assessment does not meet the screening requirement stated in law.
Districts are still required to screen students for hearing, vision, speech and communications, and health or medical problems and for any developmental disorders in addition to completing the Kindergarten Readiness Assessment Revised.
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Administering the Kindergarten Readiness Assessment
How do I explain the Kindergarten Readiness Assessment Revised to families?
There are a number of resources for talking with families about the Kindergarten Readiness Assessment that could be used at family visits, orientations, parent-teacher conferences, or sent home.
Here are a few resources specifically created to welcome families to kindergarten:
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Is there a specific sequence for assessing students?
There will be a recommended sequence to follow, but teachers will be able to administer the items in any order.
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What technological components are required?
There are three technology components: two for teachers and one for students. Only the technology components for teachers are required. The technology component for students is optional. Detailed technology guidelines are posted on the Ohio Department of Education and Workforce’s website for teachers, for administrators, on KReady, and on Ohio K12 Help.
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Does the assessment have to be administered face-to-face at e-schools?
Yes. Computer-based schools must provide a physical location for statewide tests. Each internet- or computer-based community school shall provide its students a location within a 50-mile radius of the student's residence at which to complete the statewide achievement and diagnostic assessments.
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