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 Revised (KRA-R). The KRA-R 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.

INTRODUCTION	Resources
KRA-R Blueprint KRA Guidelines for Allowable Supports KRA-R Translator Information for Test Coordinators	KReady System and ELA & KRA App Technical Specifications Data Manager Guidelines Website KReady Data Guidelines KRA Scale Score Report Definition of Fields How-To Presentations: KRA Reports ISR Zip File Download KRA Data Displays KRA-R Score Conversion Tables Screeners, Diagnostics and Assessments Required for First Time Kindergarten Enrollment
FORMS	Reports
KRA-R Kit Order Form  ​KRA Documentation of Secure Test Destruction KRA-R Translator Reimbursement Form	KRA Technical Report 2014 KRA Technical Report Addendum 2015 Comparability Study: KRA and KRA-L Sample Individual Student Report KRA-R Individual Student Report Overview_All Languages

REsources for Chartered Non-Public Schools Participating in the KRA

Assigning Unique System Identifiers for Students without SSIDs

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). Here are directions: 

• ​Assigning Roles in OEDS, and 
• Establishing a New Organization in 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, 2023 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 until November 9th at 11:59 p.m. 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 and ELA Data Manager Training  
August 1 Recording
This is a recording of the August 1 training for new and returning data managers that will prepare you to upload teacher, student, and enrollment data in the Ready for Kindergarten Online (KReady) system so teachers can participate in professional development and administer the KRA and/or ELA. 

It covers these topics: 

• Information about the KRA and ELA, including the technology system used to support it 
• What KRA and ELA implementation looks like for this upcoming school year, including any new updates 
• How to upload teacher, student, and enrollment data through multiple methods 
• How to handle student transfers within the KReady system 
• Ways to access KRA and ELA district level reports
• Resources and supports available to you in this role 

 

Archived webinars for Data Managers are available here.  

KRA-R Teacher Training - Only kindergarten teachers who have not yet been trained need to successfully complete the training on the Kindergarten Readiness Assessment Revised administration, score reporting, and use of the assessment data. To participate in the training, a teacher have an account in the Ready for Kindergarten Online system (also called KReady) and must complete required online modules prior to the scheduled training. Additional details are available on the Kindergarten Readiness Assessment for Teachers page.
 

KReady System Support:
For help with the KRA technology, you can go to https://www.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: 9/18/2023 10:21:42 AM

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