KRA Overview

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: 

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: 

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