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Kindergarten Student Entrance Profile

KSEP Presenters:Kendra Rogers, First 5 Fresno County

Deanna Mathies, Fresno Unified School District

Facilitator: Dr. Michele Cantwell-Copher,

Fresno County Office of Education

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Developmentally appropriate assessment of academic and social emotional readiness

Research-based observational assessment that is able to predict later grade level achievement as measured by the California Standards Tests (CST)

It supports the school readiness indicators advocated by the National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC), the National Governor’s Task Force on School Readiness, and the recent Grade Level Reading Campaign

What is the KSEP?

+KSEP Website

+How Does the KSEP Work?

Ready to Go Quarterly Monitoring

Monthly Monitoring

Immediate Follow-up

The KSEP is administered by teachers during the first 6 weeks of school to determine a student’s social-emotional and school-ready knowledge.

Based on the observations, the student are placed into one of the following categories of kindergarten readiness.

+KSEP Item Examples

Recognizes own written name

Understands that numbers represent quantity

Demonstrates expressive verbal ability

Seeks adult help when appropriate

Is enthusiastic and curious about school

Engages in cooperative play activities with peers

Cognitive Social-Emotional

The KSEP contains a total of 13 items: 7 cognitive, 6 social-emotional.

Each item has a rubric of 1 (not yet), 2 (emerging), 3 (almost mastered), and 4 (mastered)

+KSEP: An Important Tool

The data provided by the KSEP offers the insight necessary to: Address the immediate needs of

incoming kindergarten students

Provides a predictive data point never before universally gathered in Fresno County

Can support more efficient use of resources, both prevention and intervention

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In Fall 2012, 4 school districts completed the KSEP:

Central Sanger Clovis Fresno

Between these districts, 121 schools participated and 10,628 students were assessed.

Each district entered data into their own data system, then transferred the data to the Fresno County Office of Education (FCOE), Mosaic, and UCSB for processing and analysis.

KSEP: Implementation in Fresno County

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*1.47% of the 10,628 assessments were invalid

KSEP: Results

Analysis produced the following break-down of kindergarten readiness across the 4 participating districts:

Ready to Go: 36.90% n=3,992

Quarterly Monitoring

33.02% n=3,507

Monthly Monitoring

22.54% n=2,395

Immediate Follow-up

6.07% n= 645

+KSEP: Results

“Ready to Go”

“Quarterly Monitor”

“Monthly Monitor”

“Immediate Follow-Up”

60% of these students score proficient or advanced on 2nd grade Language Arts CST

7% of these students score proficient or advanced on the 2nd grade Language Arts CST

75% of 3rd graders who are poor readers, will be poor readers in high school

+KSEP: Key Finding

The published data overwhelmingly demonstrates that preschool attendance is a critical component of kindergarten readiness. That is now additionally supported by Fresno County KSEP data.

Fresno County KSEP results shows: 50% of students who attended preschool

were considered “Ready To Go” 21% of students who did not attend

preschool were considered “Ready To Go”

+KSEP: Implications

What can we do now that we could not do before?

We can document the preparation levels of students when they enter kindergarten and follow their progress unlike ever before

We can target additional supports to communities and groups who are disproportionally entering school without readiness

We can inform community funders of the needs of young children with a universal platform of assessment

We can offer supports to kindergarteners in research informed approach

We can create a professional learning community so districts can share what they are doing to provide supports to the children shown on the KSEP to be underprepared and see which interventions work

+A Case Study in Fresno Unified

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+Moving Forward…

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