GPRA 2. Number and percent of three-year-olds and children in kindergarten who demonstrate at the beginning of the program or school year age-appropriate functioning across multiple domains of early learning as determined using developmentally-appropriate early learning measures.

Guidance Document Definition. Early childhood providers may use a wide variety of valid assessment tools to assess the five dimensions of early learning development and skills identified by the National Education Goals Panel (i.e., language and literacy development, cognition and general knowledge, approaches toward learning, physical well-being and motor development including adaptive skills, and social and emotional development). Promise Neighborhoods should work with their early childhood partners to ensure they are using either the school readiness assessment recognized by their state or local school district, or they are using a nationally recognized assessment tool or set of tools for their program that measures age-appropriate functioning across the multiple domains. Partners should implement those assessments at the beginning of the programmatic or school year.

Our definitions conform to the guidance document. Our measurement tools are the Brigance Kindergarten Screen III (Kindergarteners) and the Ages and Stages Questionnaire (3 yr olds). The Brigance tool is administered to all incoming kindergarteners in public schools by LEA's under the direction of the Kentucky Department of Education. The data is sourced from administrative data sets from KDE. The Ages and Stages Questionnaire is administered via mail (with direct follow up by PN staff) to a randomly selected sample of families in the Dolly Parton Imagination Library program who have children just turning 3 years old, but that had been enrolled in the program for at least three months prior.

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