Teaching Strategies Gold (TSGold) is Vermont’s approved assessment tool for reporting progress on students in Universal Prekindergarten Education programs. Students are observed by trained teachers over the course of the fall and the spring across the domains of reading, math, and social and emotional development.
The chart below shows the percent of 4-year-olds meeting or exceeding expectations for reading, math and social emotional development in assessments in the spring of each school year. The downloadable dataset contains data for 3- and 4-year-olds and by school district.
Source
Vermont Agency of Education. (2024). Teaching Strategies Gold Assessment Results 2018-2024 School Years. Unpublished data.
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Children Ready for Kindergarten (R4K!S) – The chart shows the percentage of all kindergarten students identified as “ready” for kindergarten by school year.
Indicator
Third Grade Reading Proficiency by Student Characteristics – The chart shows the percentage of children scoring proficient or above in the third grade assessments by student characteristics.