We also struggled with deciding which of these outcomes were most critical to assess. Articulating clear criteria for teachers to use in evaluating and documenting mastery of each outcome was even more difficult. The teachers delved deeply into different academic and developmental expectations before arriving at basic criteria. Achieving means the student has reached the stated goal. Students rated in the Not Yet category may hold books improperly or show no interest in them, while those identified as Developing may sometimes hold books properly, or point to some words on the cover, but not the title.
Teachers also note any Extended activities children have mastered.
A child may, for example, be able to recognize authors' and illustrators' styles or be aware of chapters and tables of contents. Counts to 10 but skips one or more numbers. Counts from 1 to 10 but cannot count from 11 to 19 without errors. Counts to 20 but skips one or more numbers. Coordinating the Parent Report As the kindergarten teachers were developing the performance assessment, they let us know it was incomplete without a matching parent report form.