Let’s Get Ready for Kindergarten!
Early Years Evaluation - Direct Assessment
(EYE-DA)
Successful learning takes place when children are supported by families, schools, and communities. The challenge is that many children enter kindergarten with cognitive or language skills that are one or more years behind their peers.
Identify Learning Needs Early
Many learning difficulties can be prevented with early identification, excellent classroom instruction, and appropriate intervention. The Early Years Evaluation – Direct Assessment (EYE-DA) helps educators plan for diverse learning needs before children enter kindergarten.
Assess Early to Support Learning
Using play-based methods, trained assessors gather data in four key domains known to foster learning success. The EYE-DA provides ‘leading indicator’ information on each child’s strengths or areas for further development early, to help schools and families support a positive transition to school.
Benefits
Educators can use the data to:
The EYE-DA can help families, schools, and communities ensure a more positive transition to school.
Hear from educators how they are using EYE to better meet the needs of children, families and teachers.
What Our Clients Say
“The Early Years Evaluation – Direct Assessment helps us connect with potentially at-risk families who until now have refused all the services that were offered to them. By sharing the child’s results right after the evaluation, we’re able to deal with touchy subjects with the parents.”
Marie Boudreau,
Coordonnatrice de la transition scolaire, Agence Famille Petite Enfance Nord-Ouest
“I can't tell you how proud and happy I feel to see the translations into many indigenous languages! I believe The Learning Bar is a trail blazer and advocate for First Nations, and this is evidence of your commitment to advancing learning for our children.”
Lori Whiteman,
Executive Director, Treaty 4 Education Alliance
“Administering the EYE-DA was a great experience for our teachers – that is ongoing! This has helped them adequately target the developmental fields that they will be working on with each child during their last year at the childcare centre. Furthermore, sharing the child report with parents leads to better communication with them.”