1. GKIDS 2014-15 Mid-Administration Workshop
Georgia Kindergarten Inventory of Developing Skills

2. 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.

3. What is Assessed? Content Areas ELA Math Social Studies (optional)
Science (optional)
Non-Academic Dimensions of Learning
Personal/Social Development
Approaches to Learning
Motor Skills (optional)

4. 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

5. 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

6. GKIDS Data Entry and Reporting Website

7. Data Entry and Reporting Website
Web-based electronic data entry and reporting system available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week:
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

8. Login and Passwords
All system coordinator, school coordinator and teacher information in the website from the 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.

9. 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 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.

10. School Test Coordinator Responsibilities
Your main role is to manage user accounts for the teachers at your school.
Login names and passwords from 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.

11. Teacher Responsibilities
Add your students to the database.
Enter student data in the required domains.
All English Language Arts elements
All Math elements
All Approaches to Learning elements
All Personal/Social Development elements.
Remove students from your class list if they move to a new school.
Generate student and class reports throughout the year as needed.

12. GKIDS Changes for Adding Students to the GKIDS Database
1. Manually Adding Students
Same procedures as previous years.
Not to be used for transferred students.
2. Selecting Students from a Pre-populated School List
Available based on information submitted by districts during Pre-ID Cycle I.
Teachers have to select students from the school list.

13. Manage Students

14. Manage Students
ADD NEW STUDENT option to be used only for NEW Georgia kindergarten students
STUDENT SEARCH and ACQUIRE for transferred students

15. Releasing Students
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
Use the “EDIT PROFILE” feature to correct student information.

16. 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.
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.

17. Acquire a Student

18. Home Page

19. Entering Assessment Data: Select Standard/Skill

20. Entering Assessment Data: Assign Ratings

21. Entering Assessment Data: Set All Function

22. GKIDS Reporting Deadlines
There is no reporting window at the beginning of the school year or in the middle of the school year unless required by the local system.
There was a mid-year checkpoint in January to ensure that teachers are recording information in a timely manner. Systems received a mid-year datafile in January.
Deadline for entering GKIDS Data for the school year: May 8, Data received after the deadline will not be included in Summary Reports. System will be available until June 12, 2015.
Student data will be entered at the GKIDS Data Entry Website:
Required Domains: Language Arts, Math, Approaches to Learning, and Personal/Social Development.

23. End-of-the-Year Reports
Teachers may select one of the individual student reports from the GKIDS website to use as the end-of- the-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.
Student reports cannot be recreated after the online data is archived for the year.

24. 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.

25. GKIDS Resources 2014-15 GKIDS Administration Manual
Quick Reference Guide for
Parent Brochure
Sample Baseline Assessment
These resources are posted in the “Resource Box” on the GKIDS page of the GaDOE website. Go to Assessment/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:

26. GKIDS Contacts Bobbie Bable Georgia Department of Education
Assessment and Accountability
(404)
Georgia Center for Assessment
(888)