Kindergarten Assessment (Suspended for 2021-22)

The State Board of Education extended the suspension of the Kindergarten Assessment (KA) through the 2021-22 school year due to both the pandemic and concerns related to its design and implementation. ODE and ELD are committed to engaging education and community partners in the 2021-22 school year to determine how the KA should be redesigned for future administrations. Please contact Sody Fearn, ODE’s K-2 Balanced Assessment Specialist, with any questions or concerns.

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:

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.
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

School Year 2019-20

School Year 2018-19

School Year 2017-18

Linking Oregon Kindergarten Assessment and Grade 3 Academic Assessment Results (To access explanatory information for each graph, click on the comment icon in the upper left-hand corner)
2017-18 Approaches to Learning Group Interpretive Guidance Continuum

2017-18 Early Literacy Interpretive Guidance

School Year 2016-17

2016-17 Group Interpretive Guidance Continuum

School Year 2015-16

Executive Summary for Interpretive Guidance
Overview Report for Interpretive Guidance

Group Interpretive Guidance Continuum

School Year 2014-15

Kindergarten Assessment Report Overview This document provides a description of the Kindergarten Assessment's segments and goals, as well as suggested uses for the data and cautions in interpreting the results.

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.