Definition of Key Terms
School readiness: preparation for Kindergarten which includes multiple indicators assessed across developmental and behavioral domains including but not limited to physical well being, health and motor development, social and emotional development, approaches to learning, language development, cognitive development and age-appropriate skills and behavior.
Social and emotional development: this particular school readiness indicator is the focus for Measure 23.
How to Calculate Measure/Collect Data
Programs should obtain counts of the number of children demonstrating gains in school readiness based on social and emotional development.
Accredited early childhood education programs may already have state requirements in place for assessing the social and emotional development of children to determine school readiness. For example, such a measure may be:
"The number of children who often or very often exhibit positive social behaviors when interacting with their peers".
This suggested measure is from the National School Readiness Indicators Initiative Project (Feb 2005)http://www.gettingready.org/matriarch/d.asp?PageID=303&PageName2=pdfhold&p=&PageName=Getting+Ready+-+Executive+Summary(2).pdf