Circle Kindergarten Progress Monitoring (KPM)

Circle KPM provides teachers with a comprehensive understanding of students’ learning, enabling them to design differentiated instruction to better meet students’ unique needs and share information with families.

Circle KPM provides multiple implementation options to school districts and charter schools in English and Spanish. The KPM User Guide provides information for these implementation options:

• Three-wave progress monitoring tool (BOY, MOY, EOY)
• One-time kindergarten entry assessment (BOY)
• One-time literacy screener (BOY)
• Dyslexia Screener (EOY)

Circle KPM Overview

Circle Kindergarten Progress Monitoring (KPM) covers multiple child development domains to provide a holistic understanding of each student and better informs kindergarten teachers about the children in their classes, helping them to design differentiated instruction to meet students’ needs and share information with families.

KPM was originally developed through a collaborative effort between the US Department of Education, the Texas Education Agency, and the Children’s Learning Institute (CLI) at UTHealth Houston to develop and validate a kindergarten entry assessment that can be reliably administered by kindergarten teachers in Texas at the beginning of the school year. KPM originally launched in August 2017 under the name Texas Kindergarten Entry Assessment (TX-KEA) and was later expanded by CLI to include additional administration waves. The original TX-KEA measures remain part of KPM’s beginning-of-year (BOY) assessment. Learn more about the research project to develop TX-KEA, now known as KPM on CLI’s website.

KPM Progress Monitoring Domains & Subtests

The following table shows the measures/subtests available at each wave (BOY, MOY, and EOY) in English and Spanish. Refer to the KPM Toolkit for additional information about the subtests and administration.

*The subtests that make up the BOY Kindergarten Literacy Screener Score, BOY Statewide Kindergarten Readiness score, and EOY Dyslexia Screener are highlighted in grey.