Transcript Richard Woods, Georgia’s School Superintendent “Educating Georgia’s Future” gadoe.org GKIDS 2015-16 Pre-Administration Workshop Georgia Kindergarten Inventory of Developing Skills.

Richard Woods, Georgia’s School Superintendent
“Educating Georgia’s Future”
gadoe.org
GKIDS 2015-16
Pre-Administration
Workshop
Georgia Kindergarten Inventory of
Developing Skills
Agenda
Richard Woods,
Georgia’s School Superintendent
“Educating Georgia’s Future”
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• Purpose
• Assessment Summary
• 2015-16 Updates
• Assigning/verifying schools and users
• District responsibilities
• School coordinator responsibilities
• Teacher responsibilities
• Close-Out Information
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GKIDS: Purpose
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• Provides teachers with ongoing diagnostic
information about kindergarten students’
developing skills in language arts, math, science,
social studies, personal/social development,
approaches to learning and motor skills.
• Provides a summary of individual student
performance at the end of the kindergarten school
year as an indicator of first grade readiness.
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What is Assessed?
Academic Content Areas
• ELA
• Math
• Social Studies (optional)
• Science (optional)
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Non-Academic Dimensions of Learning
• Personal/Social Development
• Approaches to Learning
• Motor Skills (optional)
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Assessing the Academic
Standards using
Performance Levels
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ELA, Math, Social Studies, and Science standards will be
assessed using 2-5 performance levels for each element.
The number of performance levels was determined by the
GKIDS Advisory Committee and is based on the range of
student performance that can be observed for each
element.
Performance Levels
• Not Yet Demonstrated
• Emerging
• Progressing
• Meets the Standard
• Exceeds the Standard
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Assessing the Non-Academic
Standards using
Performance Levels
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Personal/Social Development, Approaches to Learning, and
Motor Skills will be assessed using 3 performance levels for
each element. The number of performance levels was
determined by the GKIDS Advisory Committee and is based
on the range of student performance that can be observed
for each element.
Performance Levels
• Not Yet Demonstrated
• Emerging
• Consistently Demonstrating
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2015-16 Updates
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• Revised descriptions of some ELA and Math standards to
match Georgia Standards of Excellence (GSE)
• Revisions to some suggested activities
• Kindergarten Entry Profile (KEP) Pilot
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New Schools for 2015-16
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• If your system has a new school for the 2015-16 school year,
please provide the school name and school code to GCA so
that we can add the school to the GKIDS database. Please
contact GCA at (888) 392-8977 to provide this information.
• New schools need to be added to the database before the
pre-populated school lists are uploaded in September. If a
new school is not added to the database prior to
September, the pre-population feature will not be available
for that school. Please notify GCA of any new schools as
soon as possible.
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Login and Passwords
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• All system coordinator, school coordinator and teacher information in
the website from the 2014-15 school year will remain intact unless
requested otherwise by systems.
• School Coordinators should assign login names and passwords to new
teachers at the beginning of the school year.
• System Coordinators should assign login names and passwords to new
school coordinators at the beginning of the school year.
• If you are a new system test coordinator, please contact GCA or DOE for
assistance.
• Contact GCA if you have moved to a new school/system from last year.
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System Test Coordinator
Responsibilities
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• Your main role is to manage user accounts for school test
coordinators at each school in your system that has
Kindergarten teachers.
• During the school year, you will be able to view system,
school and class reports and search for reports on individual
students.
• Login names and passwords from 2014-15 are still valid
unless requested otherwise by systems.
• New system coordinators should contact GCA or DOE to
receive a login and password.
• System Test Coordinators are responsible for making certain
that schools in the system meet the reporting deadlines.
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District Responsibilities
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• Districts should decide whether their teachers will manually
add students at the beginning of the year or wait until
September 22 to select students from the pre-populated
school list.
• If desired, this decision can be made at the school level. However,
all teachers in a school should use the same method for entering
students.
• If desired, it is possible for some schools in a district to manually
add students beginning August 3, while other schools in the same
district wait until September 22 to use the pre-population feature.
• Students that are entered into GKIDS manually by teachers will not
appear on the pre-populated school lists when they become
available on September 22.
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School Test Coordinator
Responsibilities
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Georgia’s School Superintendent
“Educating Georgia’s Future”
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• Your main role is to manage user accounts for the teachers at
your school.
• Login names and passwords from 2014-15 are still valid unless
requested otherwise by systems.
• During the school year, you will be able to view school and
class reports and search for reports on individual students.
• Be prepared to answer questions for the school about
navigating the GKIDS Data Entry and Reporting website.
• School Test Coordinators are responsible for making certain
that teachers meet the reporting deadlines.
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Teacher Responsibilities
• Add your students to the database.
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• Manually add students (available when the site went online
on August 3), or
• Select Students from School List (available on September
22, after student data from pre-ID Cycle 1 is uploaded)
• Enter student data in the required domains.
• English Language Arts, Math, Approaches to Learning, and
Personal/Social Development
• Remove students from your class list if they move to a
new school.
• Generate student and class reports throughout the
year as needed.
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Two Options for Adding Students
to the GKIDS Database
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• 1. Manually Adding Students
• Available when the GKIDS website went online on August 3.
• Same procedures as previous years.
• 2. Selecting Students from a Pre-populated School List
• Available September 22, after Pre-ID Cycle I.
• Students entered manually prior to September 22 will not
appear on the school lists.
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Selecting Students from
Pre-Populated School List
(not available until September 22, 2015)
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Select option 3,
“Prepopulation
Search”
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Select Students from School
List
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Click the boxes
to the left of
the student
names for all of
your students.
Then click
“submit” at the
bottom of the
page
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Adding New Students Manually
(available when the site went online
August 3, 2015)
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Select “Add
New Student”
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What if one of my students is
not on the school list?
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• Any student who was entered manually prior to
September 22 will not appear on the pre-populated
school list.
• If one of your students is not on the school list, go
to “manage students” and select option 2, “student
search” to see if the student has already been
entered.
• If the student is not already in the GKIDS database,
you can manually enter the student.
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Enter Demographic Information
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Releasing Students &
Editing Student Information
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• Use the “Remove from Roster” link to release a student who
transfers out of your class.
• This does not delete the student from the GKIDS database; it simply
takes the student off your class list.
• The new student’s new teacher can acquire the student ONLY after
he/she is released.
• If you enter a student’s information incorrectly when adding
a new student, DO NOT remove the student from your
roster
• Click on “EDIT PROFILE” to the right of the student’s name
to correct student information.
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Use Student Search to Acquire
Students
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• If a student has transferred to your class, use the “STUDENT
SEARCH” option to search for and acquire the student.
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Go to Manage Students
Select option # 2 – Student Search
Enter the Student’s Name or GTID# and click search.
Click the “acquire link” that appears to the right of the name.
If there is no link, then the student hasn’t been released and you need
to contact the school to ask them to release the student.
• DO NOT use the “ADD NEW STUDENT” function to acquire a
transfer student. Once a student is in the database, you cannot
add him/her again as a new student.
• the error message “stunum taken,” means that the GTID# has already
been entered in the database.
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Acquire a Student
Go to “Manage
Students”
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Georgia’s School Superintendent
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Click on option
# 2 – Student
Search
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Acquire a Student
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Format and Activity Options
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Activities Options
• Teacher may assess by observing student
performance during the course of regular
classroom instruction or by an assessment activity
of the teacher’s choice.
• Sample activities have been developed for each GPS
standard by the advisory committee
• Activities are included in the GKIDS Administration
Manual
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Home Page
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Entering Assessment Data: Select
Standard/Skill
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Entering Assessment Data:
Assign Ratings
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Entering Assessment Data :
Set All Function
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GKIDS Key Dates
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GKIDS Resources
• 2015-16 GKIDS Administration Manual
• Quick Reference Guide for 2015-16
• Parent Brochure
• Sample Baseline Assessment
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• These resources are posted in the “Resource Box” on the
GKIDS page of the GaDOE website. Go to
http://www.gadoe.org/Curriculum-Instruction-andAssessment/Assessment/Pages/default.aspx and click on
“Georgia Kindergarten Inventory of Developing Skills
(GKIDS)” at the bottom of the page.
• For instructional support, you may browse the GaDOE
frameworks at:
www.georgiastandards.org/Frameworks.
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GKIDS Contacts
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Georgia’s School Superintendent
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Bobbie Bable
Georgia Department of Education
Assessment and Accountability
(404) 657-6168
[email protected]
Georgia Center for Assessment
(888) 392-8977
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