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Put every child on the path to kindergarten readiness with research-based indicators for early literacy, numeracy, and social-emotional development.
Individual Growth and Development Indicators (IGDIs)
Children begin to develop early literacy, early numeracy, and social-emotional skills needed for kindergarten while they’re still in preschool. myIGDIs helps you quickly and accurately assess this development so you can intervene early and provide all learners with targeted support for success.
Get accurate and consistent data to support your RTI or MTSS initiative, with minimal impact on instruction and play time.
Keep children moving toward kindergarten readiness with actionable data gathered through brief, focused assessments and observations.
Understand how your child is developing the academic, social, and behavioral skills necessary to thrive in the school environment.
Built on a strong research foundation
Developed at the University of Minnesota under the leadership of Dr. Scott McConnell, an expert in early childhood assessment.
Developed at the University of Memphis by Dr. Robin Hojnoski and colleagues specializing in early mathematics skills.
Developed at the University of Minnesota and aligned with multiple sets of early childhood academic standards.
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Meet myIGDIs
Track the development of critical foundational skills
Discover how myIGDIs measures for early literacy and early numeracy—along with ProLADR observational tools for social-emotional and related development—help you determine each child’s readiness for kindergarten.
How does myIGDIs work?
You administer myIGDIs measures for early literacy and early numeracy in a 1-on-1 setting. For social-emotional and other developmental preschool assessments, you observe students over time and record results.
When you view results, you can easily see whether each child is meeting seasonal benchmarks or needs additional support to catch up.
Use your preschool assessment data to plan daily instruction and target interventions to each child’s specific learning needs.
In addition to seasonal screening, you can administer myIGDIs to monitor the progress of children receiving intervention.
Explore what makes myIGDIs so effective
The myIGDIs suite combines curriculum-based measures for early literacy and early numeracy with observational tools—known as ProLADR—for social-emotional learning and related developmental domains. These measures and tools give early childhood educators actionable insight into each child’s progress and instructional needs.
myIGDIs measures and seasonal benchmarks are grounded in years of research by child development experts, so you can have confidence in the reliability and validity of the results.
Clear instructions, student prompts, and scoring information mean you can administer the early literacy or early numeracy measures in about 10 minutes per child.
Seasonal benchmarks show you whether children are on track or need more intensive instruction and intervention to be kindergarten-ready. Progress-monitoring measures then help you to track growth and make necessary adjustments.
Which students have achieved benchmark during this window?
Who is at risk and may be struggling with core instruction?
Which kids need intervention to achieve kindergarten readiness?
Who still needs to be evaluated?
Easy-to-read reports provide data at the district, school, classroom, and student levels. Color-coded displays facilitate data conversations with administrators, colleagues, and parents.
Recommended research and resources on preschool assessment
Two co-creators of myIGDIs discuss professional standards for measuring early academic achievement, especially language and literacy skills, among preschool children.
The University of Minnesota research team describes work leading to the development of the current generation of IGDIs, and how scores are used in decision-making for RTI/MTSS.
myIGDIs is designed to be both rigorous and easy to use. Here, University of Minnesota researchers discuss how to meet these two objectives so that teachers can make good data-based decisions.
Read an in-depth discussion of the design and validation processes for myIGDIs early literacy measures in Spanish.
Learn more about how myIGDIs can help educators measure areas critical to pre-literacy development and growth
Brochure
Explore how myIGDIs measures areas critical to pre-literacy development and growth.
On-Demand Webinar
Join the co-creator of myIGDIs for tips on using your assessment data to support students’ early learning journeys.
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We were looking for an assessment that was fast, predictive of later academic success, and sensitive to growth. We selected myIGDIs because it was supported by research and very similar to assessments used by elementary schools implementing MTSS with older children
Misty Goosen, Project Coordinator, Kansas MTSS
A Renaissance representative can provide you with a more detailed understanding of how myIGDIs can help put every child on a strong path to kindergarten readiness.