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Elementary Assessments

Pre- Kindergarten & Kindergarten Assessments

myIGDIs by Renaissance

Individual Growth and Development Indicators of Early Literacy (myIGDIs™) 

myIGDIS Literacy is a formative assessment individually administered by the teacher to support the identification of preschool children requiring additional diagnostic assessment or levels of intervention in oral language, phonological awareness, alphabet knowledge, and comprehension. This assessment can be used to measure developmental gains and inform instructional needs of individual children.  

Assessment Components: 

The following measures are required: 

  • Picture Naming, Rhyming, Sound Identification, Which One Doesn’t Belong? 

  • Alliteration- (Mid-year & Spring Only) 

Students Tested: 

  • All public-school students enrolled in 4K classrooms

When Tests Are Administered: 

  • This assessment is administered three times a year (fall, winter, and spring).

 

Kindergarten Readiness Assessment (KRA)

The 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 determines each child’s readiness level from an evaluation of four domains: Social Foundations, Language/Literacy, Mathematics, and Physical Well-Being.  The KRA provides a snapshot of students’ abilities at the beginning of the school year.

Students Tested: 

  • All 5K students attending public school must be assessed with the KRA. 

Test Window: 

  • Schools must administer the KRA during the first 45 days of school. KRA is administered once.

iReady

The i-Ready Diagnostic is an adaptive assessment that adjusts its questions to suit your student’s needs. Each item a student sees is individualized based on their answer to the previous question. For example, a series of correct answers will result in slightly harder questions, while a series of incorrect answers will yield slightly easier questions. The purpose of this is not to give your student a score or grade, but instead to determine how best to support your student’s learning.

 

i-Ready Personalized Instruction provides students with lessons based on their individual skill level and needs, so your student can learn at a pace that is just right for them. These lessons are fun and interactive to keep your student engaged as they learn.

iReady Family Center

SCReady

The South Carolina College- and Career-Ready Assessments (SC READY) program is a statewide assessment in English Language Arts (ELA), mathematics, science and social studies administered to students in grades 3–8 as required by the Education Accountability Act (EAA). The EAA was amended in 2018 to shorten testing by reducing the number of grade levels tested in social studies to grades 5 and 7 and for science to grades 4, 6, and 8. 

For the 2023–24 school year, Proviso 1.74 of the 2023–24 General Appropriations Bill suspended testing of grade 8 in science and grades 5 and 7 in social studies. As a result, students will be assessed in grades 4 and 6 in science.  Starting with the 2023–24 school year, SC READY social studies will not be assessed in grades 3-8. 

SC READY Assessment items measure student performance on the South Carolina College-and Career-Ready Standards.

SCReady Information for Parents