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Direct linkDan Goldhaber; Katherine Baird; Suvekshya Gautam – Center for Education Data & Research, 2024
In this paper we analyze the extent to which a mandated kindergarten assessment predicts 3rd grade outcomes, and the academic progression for students from 3rd grade to high school. We find that the kindergarten assessment strongly predicts 3rd grade outcomes, with the math skills assessment being especially predictive of 3rd grade academic…
Descriptors: Public Schools, Outcomes of Education, Academic Achievement, Achievement Gains
Download full textMaryland State Department of Education, 2009
The report shares what everyone has learned from the 2010-2011 Maryland Model for School Readiness (MMSR) data about the school readiness of Maryland's children: statewide, by subgroups, and for each of Maryland's 24 local jurisdictions. Some of the highlights are: (1) The percentage of Maryland kindergarteners fully ready to start school…
Descriptors: Special Schools, School Readiness, Learning Readiness, Disabilities
Maryland State Department of Education, 2009
Each year, Maryland State Department of Education (MSDE) informs policymakers and practitioners of what children know and are able to do when they start formal education in kindergarten. This report provides a profile of children's skill levels as they enter school based on the evaluation of their teachers. It includes valuable trend data about…
Descriptors: African American Children, Special Schools, School Readiness, Learning Readiness
Maryland State Department of Education, 2008
Each year, the Maryland State Department of Education (MSDE) informs policymakers and practitioners of what children know and are able to do when they start formal education in kindergarten. This report, which is unique in its kind nationally, provides a profile of children's skill levels as they enter school based on the evaluation of their…
Descriptors: African American Children, Special Schools, School Readiness, Learning Readiness
Maryland State Dept. of Education, Baltimore. – 2001
In order to better establish baseline information on the social, physical, linguistic, and cognitive skills of children entering Maryland kindergartens, the state selected the Work Sampling System (WSS), a component of the Maryland Model for School Readiness, as the early childhood assessment system for evaluating entering kindergartners' skills…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Disabilities, Kindergarten, Kindergarten Children
Maryland State Dept. of Education, Baltimore. – 2001
In order to better establish baseline information on the social, physical, linguistic, and cognitive skills of children entering Maryland kindergartens, the state selected the Work Sampling System (WSS), a component of the Maryland Model for School Readiness, as the early childhood assessment system for evaluating entering kindergartners' skills…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Counties, Disabilities, Kindergarten
Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, 1992
This survey was designed to assess teachers' perspectives on student grade level preparedness. Specifically, it examines the kinds of problems that make it difficult to be a good student and how well prepared teachers feel they are to deal with these problems. As has been true since The MetLife Survey of the American Teacher began in 1984, more…
Descriptors: Public Schools, Elementary Secondary Education, Kindergarten, Teacher Attitudes
