The Kindergarten Readiness Assessment (KRA) is a developmentally appropriate instrument that measures a child’s school readiness across multiple domains.  Understanding a child’s school readiness helps kindergarten teachers best meet the child’s needs, and it helps schools, families, communities and policy makers know how best to support young children as they enter the K-12 environment.

The KRA provides a snapshot of students’ abilities at the beginning of the school year.  The KRA determines each child’s readiness level from an evaluation of four domains: 

• Social Foundations

• Language/Literacy

• Mathematics

• Physical Well-Being

Teachers interact directly with the child for the selected-response and the performance task items. Observations can take place in a variety of naturally occurring settings.   For the observation items, teachers can observe students individually, in small groups, or as a whole class. Observation items are scored using a rubric that includes specific criteria at three levels of proficiency: 

• E - Evident

• I - In Progress,

• N - Not Yet Evident

KRA Administration Toolkit Documents

• KRA Test Security Agreement for Teachers

• KRA Monitor & Teaching Assistant Agreement to Maintain Confidentiality

• Getting Started Guide

• 4K-5K Readiness Assessments - Testing Do Not Disturb Sign

• KRA Item Delivery Options

• KRA Throughout the Day

• KRA Planning Checklist for Teachers

• KRA Observational Assessment Strategies

• KRA Observation Planning Tool

• KRA Observation Checklist

• Guidelines on Allowable Supports

• Quick Guide:  Administering the KRA to Students with Disabilities

• Quick Guide:  Administer the KRA to Multilingual Learners

KRA App Toolkit Documents

• KRA App Administration & Allowable Supports

• KRA App Technical Specifications

• KRA Proctor Guidelines

KRA Data & Reports Documents

• KRA Reports at a Glance

• How-to-Guide:  Domain Data Export

• How-to-Guide:  Individual Student Reports (ISRs)

• How-to-Guide:  KRA Data Displays for Teachers

• How-to-Guide:  KRA Data Displays for School & District Administrators

• Notice & Wonder Protocol

• Sharing KRA with Families

Email Updates - Email archive of all KRA correspondence.

District Training / Check-In

• Veteran Teachers (Teachers that did not attend NTA)

  • Friday, August 9 (3-opportunities available)

    • 7:30 AM Link: https://meet.google.com/ged-ubgw-vja 

    • 12:00 PM Link: https://meet.google.com/ged-ubgw-vja 

    • 2:30 PM Link: https://meet.google.com/ged-ubgw-vja 

KRA Account Assistance

• KRA Help Desk - 888-602-8343

• KRA Help Desk Online Form

Security & Confidentiality Forms

• 2024–25 KRA Test Security Agreement for Teachers & TAs 

• 4K/5K Monitor & Teaching Assistants Agreement to Maintain Confidentiality 2024-25 

• 4K  5K Readiness Assessments Testing "Do Not Disturb" Sign 

  • Upload the completed document to the KRA Confidentiality Agreement Folder

Test Administrator Certification

• Upload the completed document to the KRA Certificate Folder

7-23-24 - KRA Update: 

• HCS DISTRICT TRAINING:  All New & Veteran Teachers should be in attendance to at least ONE District Training.

• ONLINE TRAINING MODULES:  New and Veteran Teachers may now go to the KReady Webiste to begin their Online Training Modules.  Be sure to email a PDF  copy of your Training Certificate to me at jnininger@horrycountyschools.net.