Kindergarten Readiness Assessment for Administrators
At the beginning of each school year, children in public school kindergarten programs are assessed using Ohio’s Kindergarten Readiness Assessment (KRA). The KRA is aligned to Ohio's Early Learning and Development Standards and is one measure of a child’s readiness for engaging with kindergarten standards based instruction.
Fall 2025 Update
Two new Kindergarten Readiness Assessment (KRA) form options will be available for the fall 2025 administration. Both forms contain refreshed items and result in scaled scores that are comparable to previous KRA forms. Each school district and community school will determine which form they will implement for fall 2025.
| Form Name |
KRA-R2 |
KRA 2.0 |
| Number of Items |
27 |
50 |
|
Scores Available
|
Overall
Language & Literacy |
Overall
Language & Literacy
Mathematics
Social Foundations
Physical Well-Being & Motor Development
|
| Virtual Administration Items |
8 |
17 |
KRA Form Change Administrator Webinar
Thursday, April 3, 2025 at 2 p.m.
This webinar is for district and community school test coordinators, data managers, and administrators responsible for Kindergarten Readiness Assessment administration. This session will provide participants with information about the transition to new KRA forms including form options, selection process, ordering materials, and training. No registration is required. Join here.
Resources
REsources for Chartered NonPublic Schools Participating in the KRA
Forms
Reports
Assessment Data Manager Role
A data manager is the individual who has access to teacher and student demographic information. It is this person’s responsibility for adding teachers, students, and enrollment data to the Ready for Kindergarten Online system. You have to be registered in the Ready for Kindergarten Online system as a data manager in order to enter or access any data.
To get access, an individual must be selected by the school or district to serve in this capacity. Each participating school or district must assign an Assessment Data Manager-Preschool and Kindergarten in the Ohio Educational Directory System (OEDS).
If a data manager has the role in OEDS but the KReady data manager account has not been created, please contact the KRA Help Desk.
Timeline
The administration window for the Kindergarten Reading Assessment Revised is not earlier than the first day of July of the school year and not later than the twentieth day of instruction of that school year.
The Ready for Kindergarten Online (KReady) system will open on July 1 and remain open through November 1 to accommodate differences in district schedules. November 1st is the deadline for teachers to enter data in the Ready for Kindergarten Online (KReady) system. After the KReady system closes on November 1 at 11:59 p.m., data managers will have additional time to clean up transfer requests.
Assessment Results
Results are available in the KReady system to users with teacher, data manager, and administrator accounts.
- KRA raw data is immediately available to teachers as they administer the items, and we recommend teachers use that as baseline data to inform kindergarten instruction based on the needs of the students.
- The Language and Literacy Scale Score reports are available to data managers and administrators before Nov. 1.
- Scale Score reports are available to data managers and administrators after the window closes. The system takes about a week to generate all of the scores and go through testing before making the reports available to school districts. The scale score report will not be available during the administration window.
The
Individual Student Reports (ISRs) are available on demand to teachers for students who have 100% item completion.
DATA MANAGER TRAINING
KRA Teacher Training
Kindergarten teachers who have never been trained on the KRA will need to successfully complete training on the Kindergarten Readiness Assessment administration, score reporting, and use of the assessment data. To participate in the training, a teacher must have an account in the Ready for Kindergarten Online system (also called KReady) and have the correct KRA "tag" or designation within their KReady account. To become certified to administer the KRA, teachers must successfully complete the certification modules and content and simulation assessments. Additional details are available on the Kindergarten Readiness Assessment for Teachers page.
KReady User Assessment Tag - KRA
Data managers will need to make sure that teachers and administrators have the correct “tag” or designation within their KReady account to access the KRA PD site. This is a one-time designation. Data managers can either make this selection manually or via the bulk loader. The teachers template includes an additional column labeled – “assessment_tag”. In that column, data managers will designate the KRA so that the system knows which teachers and administrators should be granted access to the KRA modules/sites within the PD component. If a data manager opens a user profile, there is an option to designate KRA manually as well. This designation has to be made for all users who need access to the KRA modules/sites. If this is not done, then the user will not be able to access the PD component of the system when they click the green Access Professional Development and Resources button from the KReady dashboard. The Data Manager/Administrator manual in KReady includes how-to steps for this functionality.
KReady System Support:
For help with the KRA technology, you can go to ohio-k12.help/kready-support/ to submit a help desk ticket or call 844-K12-OHIO (844-512-6446) to get help setting up a help desk ticket.
Last Modified: 4/3/2025 1:34:04 PM