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Kindergarten Student Entrance Profile
KSEP Presenters:Kendra Rogers, First 5 Fresno County
Deanna Mathies, Fresno Unified School District
Facilitator: Dr. Michele Cantwell-Copher,
Fresno County Office of Education
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Developmentally appropriate assessment of academic and social emotional readiness
Research-based observational assessment that is able to predict later grade level achievement as measured by the California Standards Tests (CST)
It supports the school readiness indicators advocated by the National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC), the National Governor’s Task Force on School Readiness, and the recent Grade Level Reading Campaign
What is the KSEP?
+How Does the KSEP Work?
Ready to Go Quarterly Monitoring
Monthly Monitoring
Immediate Follow-up
The KSEP is administered by teachers during the first 6 weeks of school to determine a student’s social-emotional and school-ready knowledge.
Based on the observations, the student are placed into one of the following categories of kindergarten readiness.
+KSEP Item Examples
Recognizes own written name
Understands that numbers represent quantity
Demonstrates expressive verbal ability
Seeks adult help when appropriate
Is enthusiastic and curious about school
Engages in cooperative play activities with peers
Cognitive Social-Emotional
The KSEP contains a total of 13 items: 7 cognitive, 6 social-emotional.
Each item has a rubric of 1 (not yet), 2 (emerging), 3 (almost mastered), and 4 (mastered)
+KSEP: An Important Tool
The data provided by the KSEP offers the insight necessary to: Address the immediate needs of
incoming kindergarten students
Provides a predictive data point never before universally gathered in Fresno County
Can support more efficient use of resources, both prevention and intervention
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In Fall 2012, 4 school districts completed the KSEP:
Central Sanger Clovis Fresno
Between these districts, 121 schools participated and 10,628 students were assessed.
Each district entered data into their own data system, then transferred the data to the Fresno County Office of Education (FCOE), Mosaic, and UCSB for processing and analysis.
KSEP: Implementation in Fresno County
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*1.47% of the 10,628 assessments were invalid
KSEP: Results
Analysis produced the following break-down of kindergarten readiness across the 4 participating districts:
Ready to Go: 36.90% n=3,992
Quarterly Monitoring
33.02% n=3,507
Monthly Monitoring
22.54% n=2,395
Immediate Follow-up
6.07% n= 645
+KSEP: Results
“Ready to Go”
“Quarterly Monitor”
“Monthly Monitor”
“Immediate Follow-Up”
60% of these students score proficient or advanced on 2nd grade Language Arts CST
7% of these students score proficient or advanced on the 2nd grade Language Arts CST
75% of 3rd graders who are poor readers, will be poor readers in high school
+KSEP: Key Finding
The published data overwhelmingly demonstrates that preschool attendance is a critical component of kindergarten readiness. That is now additionally supported by Fresno County KSEP data.
Fresno County KSEP results shows: 50% of students who attended preschool
were considered “Ready To Go” 21% of students who did not attend
preschool were considered “Ready To Go”
+KSEP: Implications
What can we do now that we could not do before?
We can document the preparation levels of students when they enter kindergarten and follow their progress unlike ever before
We can target additional supports to communities and groups who are disproportionally entering school without readiness
We can inform community funders of the needs of young children with a universal platform of assessment
We can offer supports to kindergarteners in research informed approach
We can create a professional learning community so districts can share what they are doing to provide supports to the children shown on the KSEP to be underprepared and see which interventions work
+A Case Study in Fresno Unified
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+Moving Forward…
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