Transcript GKIDS 2014-15 Pre-Administration Workshop Georgia Kindergarten Inventory of Developing Skills GKIDS: Purpose • Provides teachers with ongoing diagnostic information about kindergarten students’ developing skills in language.

GKIDS 2014-15
Pre-Administration Workshop
Georgia Kindergarten Inventory of
Developing Skills
GKIDS: Purpose
• 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?
GPS Content Areas
• ELA
• Math
• Social Studies (optional)
• Science (optional)
Non-Academic Dimensions of Learning
• Personal/Social Development
• Approaches to Learning
• Motor Skills (optional)
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Assessing the GPS using
Performance Levels
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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Transition to CCGPS
• During the 2012 – 2013 school year,
Georgia transitioned to the CCGPS in ELA
in grades K – 12 and in Mathematics in
grades K – 9 (the transition continued
into grade 10 in 2013-14).
• GKIDS remains aligned to the state’s
content standards as defined by the
CCGPS in 2014-2015.
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GKIDS Changes for 2014-15
There are no changes for the 2014-15
school year.
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Data Entry and Reporting Website
• Web-based electronic data entry and reporting system
available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week:
https://gkids.tsars.uga.edu/start
• Allows teachers to enter and manage data throughout the
school year.
• Teacher can enter data by student or by element for the
entire class.
• Teachers can generate student or class reports at any time
during the year (on-screen and pdf options).
– Instructional planning
– Report cards, Progress Reports, and SST
– Parent conferences
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Login and Passwords
• All system coordinator, school coordinator and teacher information in the
website from the 2013-14 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
• 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 2013-14 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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New Schools for 2014-15
• If your system has a new school for the 2014-15 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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School Test Coordinator Responsibilities
• Your main role is to manage user accounts for the teachers at
your school.
• Login names and passwords from 2013-14 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.
– Manually add students (available when the site went
online on August 4), or
– Select Students from School List (available on September
23, 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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District Responsibilities
• Districts should decide whether their teachers will manually
add students at the beginning of the year or wait until
September 23 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 4, while other schools in the same district
wait until September 23 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 23.
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Two Options for Adding Students to the
GKIDS Database
• 1. Manually Adding Students
– Available when the GKIDS website goes online on
August 4.
– Same procedures as previous years.
• 2. Selecting Students from a Pre-populated
School List
– Available September 23, after Pre-ID Cycle I.
– Students entered manually prior to September 23
will not appear on the school lists.
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Selecting Students from Pre-Populated School List
(not available until September 23, 2014)
Select option 3,
“Prepopulation
Search”
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Select Students from School List
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 goes online August 4, 2014)
Select “Add
New Student”
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What if one of my students is not on the school
list?
• Any student who was entered manually prior to
September 23 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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SRC Categories
• Note that SRC Codes 1-12 and 15 are listed in the
first box; and codes 13, 14, and 16-19 are listed in
the box below.
• The category names for codes 1-3 have been
changed to clarify which students should be assigned
those codes:
– 1: Visual Impairment or Blind
– 2: Deaf or Hard of Hearing
– 3: Deaf and Blind
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Releasing Students &
Editing Student Information
• 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
• 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”
Click on option
# 2 – Student
Search
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Acquire a Student
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Format and Activity Options
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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End-of-the-Year Reports
• Teachers may select one of the individual student
reports from the GKIDS website to use as the end-ofthe-year report.
– Strand Level
– Standard Level
– Element Level
• Class, school, and system reports are also available
on the GKIDS website.
• GCA will generate system, and state summary
reports.
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GKIDS Dates for 2014-15
Date
Event
August 4, 2014 GKIDS Website goes online; teachers may add
students manually to the GKIDS database.
Sept. 12, 2014 GKIDS Website goes offline to upload student
demographic information from Pre-ID Cycle 1.
Sept. 23, 2014 GKIDS Website goes back online; prepopulation feature is available for selecting
students from a class list.
May 8, 2015
Deadline for entering student assessment data.
June 12, 2015
GKIDS Website closes for the 2014-15 school
year.
GNETS Facilities
• If you are a teacher at a GNETS Facility, please use the
following procedures to ensure that any student assessed is
included in the home school’s data summary:
– Assess the student throughout the school year.
– Before the end of the year deadline, release the student from your
class list.
• The school coordinator at the home school should do the
following:
– Create a teacher account with the username: gnets(school name)
– Log in using that teacher login
– Use the student search function to acquire the student to that
teacher's list. This will place the student at the correct school for
reporting purposes.
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GKIDS Resources
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2014-15 GKIDS Administration Manual
Quick Reference Guide for 2014-15
Parent Brochure
Sample Baseline Assessment
– 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
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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QUESTIONS?
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