IMPORTANT: Use of the EYE-TA Short Version is currently restricted to specific jurisdictions. If your jurisdiction is using the Short Version, you will have been notified, and see differences within your Teacher Checklist and the online data entry site. If you are unsure if your jurisdiction is using the Short Version, please consult your EYE Coordinator.
We are excited to introduce a shortened version of the Early Years Evaluation – Teacher Assessment!
Our team at The Learning Bar is committed to being responsive to the needs of our many wonderful educators that use the EYE. Each year we collect feedback from teachers and administrators and put it into action by releasing new features, resources, and training. Some of our key updates include the EYE-100 Domain Strengthening Activities, the additional page of the Child Report, the Child Action Plan, self-led online training, and several incremental improvements to the data entry process. One key issue has persisted, which is the time required to assess children on all 42 items of the EYE-TA. Many teachers feel that it places a burden on their busy day-to-day schedules.
After doing extensive analyses of over 10 years of EYE-TA data from over 800,000 assessments, we determined that there is a core set of 24 items that can provide reliable results for guiding classroom instruction and identifying students requiring extra support. We can provide teachers and administrators with the exact same data they have previously received and come to rely on, in almost half of the time it previously took to collect.
What does the EYE-TA Short Version assess?
The shortened version will continue to assess items from each of the six EYE-TA developmental domains. The Cognitive Skills and Language and Communication domains include a greater number of items due to their strong predictability of later literacy success and importance in the Responsive Tiered Instruction (RTI) model. The specific items included from each domain are listed below:
Reporting
The shortened EYE-TA will provide teachers and administrators with the same reports that they have previously received. Child-, class-, school-, and Jurisdiction-level reports will continue to be provided, with results for all six developmental domains as well as the Responsive Tiered Instruction (RTI) classification. Results from the short version can also be used as a valid and reliable data point in year-over-year comparisons with data points from the full 42-item version.
Data Entry
When teachers collect data using their Teacher Checklists and enter data into the Online Data Entry Site, they can respond to all 42 items of the full version as before. However, 24 items for the short version are indicated as required. Some teachers may prefer to assess students on the full 42-item set as they will receive more information on their students.
When using the short version, scores must be entered for all required items within a domain in order to obtain a domain score. For example, if a child were to have scores entered for A2, A3, and A5, but exempt for A6, they would not receive a domain score for Awareness of Self and Environment.
Required items are indicated with an asterisk on the Teacher Checklist:
Please note: previously, an asterisk represented items that had Assessment Plates available. This information is now indicated by a page symbol in the bottom right corner of the item description.
When viewing your Progress Overview page within the online data entry site, you will again see the required items indicated by an asterisk. Required items will also continue to use the red/yellow/green colour-coding to show each item's level of data entry completion (red= not started, yellow = in progress, and green = complete). Items in grey are available for data entry, but are not required, and as such will always remain grey:
Required items are also indicated with an asterisk throughout the score entry pages: