Kindergarten Assessment (Suspended for 2020-21)

Purpose

The Oregon Kindergarten Assessment is composed of the following three measures: Early Literacy, Early Math, and Approaches to Learning. The assessment is designed to focus on domains that are strongly linked to third grade reading and future academic success as well as to align with current assessment practices in Oregon’s Kindergarten and elementary schools. The information provides a snapshot for communities and schools on the skills that students have when they enter Kindergarten.

The Oregon Kindergarten Assessment provides:

1. Local and statewide information that gives families, schools, communities, and state-level policy makers a snapshot of the social, self-regulatory, and academic skills of incoming kindergartners.
2. A consistent, statewide tool for identifying systemic opportunity gaps, determining Early Learning resource allocation to best support students in need, and measure improvement over time.

Assessment

• Kindergarten Assessment - Specifications (Updated 07/02/19)

  KA Specifications provide guidelines for Oregon teachers on what content may be assessed on Oregon's Kindergarten Assessment.

• Data Collection Resources

Interpretive Guidance

Results

These reports show the school, district, and state level results from the Oregon Kindergarten Assessment.

The Look-Back report is an update to the Kindergarten Assessment Results and includes disaggregated student results for three additional student groups: Economically Disadvantaged students, Limited English Proficient students, and Students with Disabilities. Data aggregation is based on Third Period Cumulative ADM Collections (data verified in August of the following year). This report also contains the previously-reported disaggregated data by student gender and ethnicity.

Resources

• 2019-20 Parent Brochure:
  • English
  • Spanish
• A Research Perspective on Oregon's Kindergarten Assessment
• Oregon's KRA an Important Beginning by Swati Adarkar, Children’s Institute

For more information about Oregon's Kindergarten Assessment, please visit the Assessment contacts page.