PreK-2 Outcomes

This guide by ChildTrends was designed to support preschool system leaders who plan to use the STEP Forward with Data Framework. 

The PreK-2 Assessment Crosswalk Matrix helps map assessment tools across the PreK–2 continuum by developmental domain. 

Sharing a completed PreK-2 Data Request Specification template with your initial data request can help reduce the back-and-forth with data owners, supports faster legal review, and helps ensure you receive data in a format that supports your analysis.

This template helps document data quality issues, decisions, and caveats for each data source used in your PreK-2 longitudinal analysis. 

The PreK-2 Assessment Inventory template can be used to document all assessments used across a PreK-2 system to inform data landscape mapping, linkage decisions, and alignment analysis.

This example protocol is designed to engage stakeholders in collaboratively designing a data dashboard. 

This data dictionary helps to bring together data from several contributing agencies to help understand what documentation exists and where there are gaps.

This data consent form template, an example from the District of Columbia's State Education Agency, establishes consent to share child-level data from local education agencies (LEAs) to the state education agency. 

The Sample Family & Educator Feedback Survey helps districts capture how report card language and structures are interpreted and used by families, educators, and instructional staff.