Georgia Kindergarten Inventory of Developing Skills Jan Reyes, Ed.D. Georgia Department of Education This work is licensed for use under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. It is a derivative of McDonald, Reingardt, Young & C. Schneider (2015) and Schneider (2015) Richard Woods, Georgia’s School Superintendent | Georgia Department of Education | Educating Georgia’s Future
GKIDS • Georgia State laws require an instrument, procedures, and policies necessary to assess first grade readiness of all children enrolled in Georgia public school kindergarten. • The assessment should include guidelines for the utilization of the instrument in grade placement decisions, and requires an annual summary report. • The Georgia Kindergarten Inventory of Developing Skills (GKIDS) was operationalized in 2008 as a year-long performance-based assessment. Richard Woods, Georgia’s School Superintendent | Georgia Department of Education | Educating Georgia’s Future 7/2/2019 2
GKIDS Survey: Listening to Teachers • Survey of 2,218 kindergarten and 1,503 first grade teachers from 142 districts • 49% reported the GKIDS is beneficial to differentiating instruction • 40% reported they often use GKIDS formatively • 25% reported they often use GKIDS to individualize instruction • 45% reported satisfaction with the GKIDS website • 30% reported usefulness for first grade teachers • Disconnect between first grade and kindergarten expectations • The utility and relevance of GKIDS would likely improve if the scope were reduced to focus on prioritized standards. Richard Woods, Georgia’s School Superintendent | Georgia Department of Education | Educating Georgia’s Future 7/2/2019 3
Vision for GKIDS 2.0 • Our vision was to improve GKIDS as a more relevant assessment, more closely connected to instruction, with higher functionality and richer results linked to student performance. • GKIDS 2.0 remains a formative assessment – designed to inform teaching and learning in real time. • Our goals in developing GKIDS 2.0 were to • streamline administration and move away from a mandated checklist; • increase utility; • inform first-grade readiness. Richard Woods, Georgia’s School Superintendent | Georgia Department of Education | Educating Georgia’s Future 4
GKIDS 2.0 Development Timeline Survey to collect 2016 feedback on the administration and Big Ideas workshop 2017 use of GKIDS Learning Progressions Item matching 2018 Workshop workshop Five focus groups at regional locations Teacher 2019 across the state led Public and National Educator feedback Training by the National Expert review and revisions to processes and item Center for the performance tasks development Improvement of and learning Operational progressions Educational Launch Assessment Year 1 Pilot 2019-2020 Year 2 Pilot Item matching GaDOE defined a Big workshop Idea Richard Woods, Georgia’s School Superintendent | Georgia Department of Education | Educating Georgia’s Future
A progression-based formative assessment • A big idea describes the integration of concepts and skills from the kindergarten standards that are most important for success in first grade. Richard Woods, Georgia’s School Superintendent | Georgia Department of Education | Educating Georgia’s Future
A progression-based formative assessment • A learning progression shows where the student is in the learning continuum of content and reasoning development. Each progression • provides the big picture of what is to be learned across the year; and • provides teachers with one source of real-time information to adjust instruction by identifying what a student already knows, what the student needs next, and allowing teachers to monitor growth. Richard Woods, Georgia’s School Superintendent | Georgia Department of Education | Educating Georgia’s Future
GKIDS 2.0 Big Idea Learning Progression Learning Target Richard Woods, Georgia’s School Superintendent | Georgia Department of Education | Educating Georgia’s Future
How are Students Assessed? Progression-based formative assessment Teachers match Teachers share Teachers student Teachers adjust student learning administer performance to the instruction as and growth along performance tasks. learning needed. the progression progression. with parents. Richard Woods, Georgia’s School Superintendent | Georgia Department of Education | Educating Georgia’s Future
What is Assessed? • Academic Domains • English Language Arts • Mathematics • Science (optional) • Social Studies (optional) • Non-academic Domains • Approaches to Learning • Personal and Social Development • Motor Skills (optional) Richard Woods, Georgia’s School Superintendent | Georgia Department of Education | Educating Georgia’s Future 7/2/2019 10
ELA Big Ideas • Big Idea: A kindergarten student will understand the relationship between letters and sounds and recognize high-frequency words with speed and accuracy. • Progression: Phonemic Awareness • Progression: Phonics • Progression: High Frequency Words • Big Idea: A kindergarten student will independently read grade- level texts of different genres with accuracy and demonstrate comprehension by answering text dependent questions. • Progression: Comprehension • Big Idea: A kindergarten student will independently write more than one complete thought on a single topic, using phonetic spelling and key print conventions. • Progression: Conventions of Writing • Progression: Spelling • Progression: Communication of Ideas Richard Woods, Georgia’s School Superintendent | Georgia Department of Education | Educating Georgia’s Future 7/2/2019 11
Math Big Ideas • Big Idea: A kindergarten student will model real world problems by composing 2- and 3- dimensional shapes. • Progression: Shapes • Big Idea: A kindergarten student will count using multiple strategies. • Progression: Counting-Number • Progression: Counting-Objects • Big Idea: A kindergarten student will compare objects and numbers represented in different ways to solve real world problems. • Progression: Compare • Big Idea: A kindergarten student will apply multiple strategies to solve real world problems using addition and subtraction. • Progression: Addition and Subtraction Richard Woods, Georgia’s School Superintendent | Georgia Department of Education | Educating Georgia’s Future 7/2/2019 12
Sample Learning Progression Big Idea: A kindergarten student will count using multiple strategies. Progression: Counting – Number (Note: Expectation is non-written communication in a form appropriate for the student, such as counting out loud or sign language.) Beginning Emerging Developing Demonstrating Exceeding GKIDS Readiness CNUM-1 CNUM-1 CNUM-1 CNUM-1 Check Mathematics Counts forward to 30 Counts forward to 50 Counts forward to Counts forward to Activity 1 by 1s. by 1s. 100 by 1s. 120 by 1s. Counts forward to 20. CNUM-2 CNUM-2 CNUM-2 Counts forward to 50 Counts forward to Counts forward to by 10s 100 by 10s. 120 by 10s. CNUM-3 CNUM-4 CNUM-5 Counts forward to 30 Counts forward to Counts forward to from a given number 100 from a given 120 by 5s. within 0-30 (e.g., number within 0 - "starting with 15, 100. count up to 30"). CD-MA1.4a MGSEK.CC.1 MGSEK.CC.1 MGSEK.CC.1 MGSE1.NBT.1 MGSEK.CC.2 MGSEK.CC.2 Richard Woods, Georgia’s School Superintendent | Georgia Department of Education | Educating Georgia’s Future
Sample Learning Progression Big Idea: A kindergarten student will count using multiple strategies. Progression: Counting – Number (Note: Expectation is non-written communication in a form appropriate for the student, such as counting out loud or sign language.) Beginning Emerging Developing Demonstrating Exceeding GKIDS Readiness CNUM-1 CNUM-1 CNUM-1 CNUM-1 Check Mathematics Counts forward to 30 Counts forward to 50 Counts forward to Counts forward to Activity 1 by 1s. by 1s. 100 by 1s. 120 by 1s. Counts forward to 20. CNUM-2 CNUM-2 CNUM-2 Counts forward to 50 Counts forward to Counts forward to by 10s 100 by 10s. 120 by 10s. CNUM-3 CNUM-4 CNUM-5 Counts forward to 30 Counts forward to Counts forward to from a given number 100 from a given 120 by 5s. within 0-30 (e.g., number within 0 - "starting with 15, 100. count up to 30"). CD-MA1.4a MGSEK.CC.1 MGSEK.CC.1 MGSEK.CC.1 MGSE1.NBT.1 MGSEK.CC.2 MGSEK.CC.2 Richard Woods, Georgia’s School Superintendent | Georgia Department of Education | Educating Georgia’s Future
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