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Download full textYun, Cathy; Melnick, Hanna; Wechsler, Marjorie – Learning Policy Institute, 2021
Early childhood assessments can provide important information to guide instruction and inform policy. Given the widespread and growing use of statewide kindergarten entry assessments (KEAs), in particular, it is important that policymakers understand how to choose and use assessments wisely. This brief summarizes research showing how authentic…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Performance Based Assessment, Developmentally Appropriate Practices, Student Evaluation
High-Quality Early Childhood Assessment: Learning from States' Use of Kindergarten Entry Assessments
Yun, Cathy; Melnick, Hanna; Wechsler, Marjorie – Learning Policy Institute, 2021
High-quality early childhood programs aim to foster children's learning through developmentally appropriate practices and environments. Early childhood assessments, when well designed and well implemented, can support developmentally appropriate early learning experiences by providing information to guide instruction and support whole child…
Descriptors: Educational Quality, Early Childhood Education, Developmentally Appropriate Practices, Student Evaluation
Direct linkStotz, Megan; Columba, Lynn – Journal of Interactive Learning Research, 2018
This study evaluated a classroom implementation of augmented reality (AR) for improving subitizing skills of preschool students. Children explored the mathematical concept of subitizing by using an AR enhanced board game, called "Creature Counting." The AR markers, which were friendly creatures, triggered the augmented reality functions.…
Descriptors: Child Care Centers, Preschool Children, Early Childhood Education, Kindergarten
Nicholson, Julie; Lin, Betty; Maniates, Helen; Woolley, Ristyn; Groves, Michelle Grant; Engdahl, Eric – Teacher Education Quarterly, 2018
This study examines how, if at all, multiple subjects and administrative services credential preparation programs are changing in response to California's newest grade, Transitional Kindergarten (TK). We analyzed interviews from university faculty in early childhood education and credential programs in five institutions of higher education and…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Higher Education, Transitional Programs, Kindergarten
Manship, Karen; Quick, Heather; Ogut, Burhan; Holod, Aleksandra; de los Reyes, Iliana Brodziak; Anthony, Jennifer – American Institutes for Research, 2017
California's Kindergarten Readiness Act of 2010 established transitional kindergarten (TK), the first year of a two-year kindergarten program for students affected by the change in the birthdate cutoff for entry into kindergarten from December 2 to September 1. This brief, the sixth in a series highlighting findings from the "Study of…
Descriptors: Kindergarten, School Entrance Age, School Readiness, Transitional Programs
Mercado-Garcia, Diana; Manship, Karen; Quick, Heather E.; Holod, Aleksandra – American Institutes for Research, 2014
In 2010, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger signed the Kindergarten Readiness Act into law. The law changed the kindergarten entry cutoff so that children must turn five by September 1 to enter kindergarten. The law also established a new grade level--Transitional Kindergarten (TK)--which is the first year of a two-year kindergarten experience for…
Descriptors: Kindergarten, School Entrance Age, School Readiness, Transitional Programs
Manship, Karen; Holod, Aleksandra; Quick, Heather; Ogut, Burhan; de los Reyes, Iliana Brodziak; Anthony, Jennifer; Chernoff, Jodi Jacobson; Hauser, Alison; Martin, Alejandra; Keuter, Shannon; Vontsolos, Emily; Rein, Elena; Anderson, Emily – American Institutes for Research, 2017
California's Kindergarten Readiness Act of 2010 established transitional kindergarten (TK), the first year of a two-year kindergarten program for students affected by the change in the birthdate cutoff for entry into kindergarten from December 2 to September 1. This final report from the program's evaluation focuses on results from a five-year…
Descriptors: Kindergarten, School Entrance Age, School Readiness, Transitional Programs
American Institutes for Research, 2016
California's Kindergarten Readiness Act of 2010 established transitional kindergarten (TK), the first year of a two-year kindergarten program for students affected by the change in the birthdate cutoff for entry into kindergarten from December 2 to September 1. This fifth short report in a series highlighting findings from the Study of…
Descriptors: Kindergarten, School Entrance Age, School Readiness, Transitional Programs
