Individual Growth and Development Indicators (IGDIs)

Preschool assessments backed by research

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.

Efficient

myIGDIs measures are brief and focused, with clear administration and scoring instructions for educators.

Engaging

Measures are fast and fun for young children, and 1-on-1 administration fosters positive teacher-student interactions.

Actionable

Seasonal benchmarks show you whether children are meeting growth expectations or require more intensive support.

Reliable

Designed for both screening and progress monitoring, myIGDIs measures are backed by more than 20 years of comprehensive research.

myIGDIs for administrators, teachers, and families

Boost preschool effectiveness

Get accurate and consistent data to support your RTI or MTSS initiative, with minimal impact on instruction and play time.

Target early childhood instruction

Keep children moving toward kindergarten readiness with actionable data gathered through brief, focused assessments and observations.

Track kindergarten readiness

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 by researchers, trusted by educators

Early Literacy

Developed at the University of Minnesota under the leadership of Dr. Scott McConnell, an expert in early childhood assessment.

Early Numeracy

Developed at the University of Memphis by Dr. Robin Hojnoski and colleagues specializing in early mathematics skills.

Social-Emotional+ (ProLADR)

Developed at the University of Minnesota and aligned with multiple sets of early childhood academic standards.

Meet myIGDIs

Track the development of critical foundational skills

An in-depth look at myIGDIs assessment for kindergarten readiness

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.

A direct-child approach to monitoring English language and literacy development, these measures are available for either dual iPad or paper administration.

Clear instructions, student prompts, and scoring information mean you can administer early literacy measures in about 10 minutes per child.

Picture Naming (oral language)
Rhyming (phonological awareness)
Alliteration (phonological awareness)
Sound ID (alphabet knowledge)
“Which One Doesn’t Belong?” (comprehension)

Early Literacy (English)

A direct-child approach to monitoring English language and literacy development, these measures are available for either dual iPad or paper administration.

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Early Literacy (English)

myIGDI's flipbook

Clear instructions, student prompts, and scoring information mean you can administer early literacy measures in about 10 minutes per child.

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Early Literacy (English)

Image showing you can administer early literacy measures quickly

Picture Naming (oral language)
Rhyming (phonological awareness)
Alliteration (phonological awareness)
Sound ID (alphabet knowledge)
“Which One Doesn’t Belong?” (comprehension)

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Measures

Early Numeracy

Timed curriculum-based measures assess the development of early mathematics and number sense for children one or two years before entering kindergarten.

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Early Numeracy

myIGDI's product Early Numeracy

Clear instructions, student prompts, and scoring information mean you can administer early numeracy measures in about 10 minutes per child.

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Early Numeracy

Timed excercises - myIGDI's

Oral Counting
Number Naming
Quantity Comparison
1-to-1 Correspondence Counting

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Measures

ProLADR multi-domain

Gather information about a child’s development across multiple domains, including social-emotional competencies, based on the child’s behavior in their natural environment.

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Multi-domain

emotional development

Check progress over time with indicators that are appropriate for children one and two years before kindergarten.

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Multi-domain

kids playing at table

Social & Emotional
Creativity & the Arts
Physical & Motor
Language & Literacy
Cognitive
Approaches to Learning

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Measures

Early Literacy (Spanish)

Measures are developed in Spanish (not translated from English) to track the development of Spanish language and literacy skills in bilingual, dual-language, and English Learner students.

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Early Literacy (Spanish)

spanish flipbook

Clear instructions, student prompts, and scoring information mean you can administer early literacy measures in Spanish in about 10 minutes per child.

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Early Literacy (Spanish)

student and teacher reading

Identificación de los Dibujos/Picture Naming (oral language)
Verbos Expressivos/Expressive Verbs (oral language)
Primeros Sonidos/First Sounds (phonological awareness)
Identificación de los Sonidos/Sound ID (alphabet knowledge)
Identificación de las Letras/Letter ID (alphabet knowledge)

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Measures

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How does myIGDIs work?

How myIGDIs preschool assessment works

1

Screen

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.

2

Know

When you view results, you can easily see whether each child is meeting seasonal benchmarks or needs additional support to catch up.

3

Plan

Use your preschool assessment data to plan daily instruction and target interventions to each child’s specific learning needs.

4

Monitor

In addition to seasonal screening, you can administer myIGDIs to monitor the progress of children receiving intervention.

Explore what makes myIGDIs so effective

The effectiveness of preschool assessments

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.

Research-based

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.

Convenient

Clear instructions, student prompts, and scoring information mean you can administer the early literacy or early numeracy measures in about 10 minutes per child.

Effective

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?

Insightful

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

Articles, webinars, and more

Best practices for monitoring progress in preschool children

Two co-creators of myIGDIs discuss professional standards for measuring early academic achievement, especially language and literacy skills, among preschool children.

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A measurement framework for RTI/MTSS in early childhood

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.

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Supporting data-based decision-making

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.

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Development of Spanish-language IGDIs

Read an in-depth discussion of the design and validation processes for myIGDIs early literacy measures in Spanish.

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Brochure

Explore how myIGDIs measures areas critical to pre-literacy development and growth.

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On-Demand Webinar

Guiding Students’ Early Learning Journeys webinar

Join the co-creator of myIGDIs for tips on using your assessment data to support students’ early learning journeys.

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Learn more about how myIGDIs can help educators measure areas critical to pre-literacy development and growth

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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

Common funding sources for myIGDIs

How to identify available funding sources for preschool assessments

District Pre-K Budgets

Some districts support pre-K with local sources, such as sales or property tax.

State Funds

Most states provide funding for pre-K programs, either through their general fund appropriations for programs, block grants for targeted purposes, or the state’s K–12 funding formula.

Federal Funds

Both formula and competitive funding is available as grants to states or local program providers, or as allocations to states.

Federal Funds for myIGDIs

Federal funding for preschool assessment

Federal funding for preschool programs can be used for assessments that provide data on the school-readiness of young children. myIGDIs can be purchased with funds from the following sources:

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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.

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myIGDIs: Research-Proven Preschool Assessment

Preschool assessments backed by research

Efficient

Engaging

Actionable

Reliable

myIGDIs for administrators, teachers, and families

Boost preschool effectiveness

Target early childhood instruction

Track kindergarten readiness

Developed by researchers, trusted by educators

Early Literacy

Early Numeracy

Social-Emotional+ (ProLADR)

An in-depth look at myIGDIs assessment for kindergarten readiness

Learn more about myIGDIs

How myIGDIs preschool assessment works

Screen

Know

Plan

Monitor

The effectiveness of preschool assessments

Research-based

Convenient

Effective

Insightful

Articles, webinars, and more

Best practices for monitoring progress in preschool children

A measurement framework for RTI/MTSS in early childhood

Supporting data-based decision-making

Development of Spanish-language IGDIs

Learn more about how myIGDIs can help educators measure areas critical to pre-literacy development and growth

How to identify available funding sources for preschool assessments

District Pre-K Budgets

State Funds

Federal Funds

Federal funding for preschool assessment

Want to learn more?