1. Joint Board Meeting January 27, 2014
Massachusetts’ Early Childhood Education: A Collaboration between ESE and EEC
Joint Board Meeting
January 27, 2014

2. Federal Context for Kindergarten Entry Assessment (KEA): RTTT - ELC
RTT-ELC requires the state to implement a “Comprehensive Assessment System” (MELD implementation already underway prior to RTT- ELC award)
Elements of a Comprehensive Assessment System:
Screening Measures
Formative Assessments
Measures of Environmental Quality
Measures of the Quality of Adult-Child Interactions

3. Massachusetts KEA Proposal
Formative assessment/observation
GOLD (Teaching Strategies)
Work Sampling (Pearson)
Assessment of all kindergarten children
All developmental domains, including social-emotional development; approaches towards play and learning; physical development
At least fall and spring data collection; progress measurement

4. Roll-Out Plan ( )
Year 1: 306 districts invited; 20 volunteered (in progress)
Year 2: targeted Quality Full-Day Kindergarten (QFDK) districts; 58 volunteered (in progress)
Year 3: required remaining QFDK districts to participate (90+ districts)
Year 4: consideration of remaining districts with kindergarten enrollment (130+ districts)