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Download full textSouth Carolina State Dept. of Education, Columbia. – 1998
The Cognitive Skills Assessment Battery (CSAB) measures student readiness to begin first grade. It is the assessment used by South Carolina to measure the readiness of each student and to plan an appropriate program for each child. In fall 1998, 81.2% of the first graders (43,568 of 53,640 students) met the readiness standard for South Carolina (a…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Ethnicity, Grade 1, Kindergarten Children
Dabney, Vana Meredith; And Others – 1988
The Cognitive Skills Assessment Battery (CSAB) is the readiness test administered to all first graders entering public school in South Carolina, mandated by the State Board of Education. It is an individually administered battery that is not timed, but requires about 25 to 30 minutes per child. Performance on the CSAB provides valuable information…
Descriptors: Cognitive Ability, Educational Assessment, Educational Trends, Elementary School Students
Relationships between Readiness Characteristics and Basic Skills Achievement of Rural First Graders.
Liu, Jeanne M.; Brinlee, Patricia S. – 1983
The exploratory investigation was guided by four research questions: (1) what are the similarities and differences in the readiness status between rural and urban first graders; (2) what is the relationship between the readiness status and socioeconomic status of rural and urban first graders; (3) what are the similarities and differences in the…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Cognitive Measurement, Comparative Analysis, Elementary Education
Schweinhart, Lawrence J.; Barnett, W. Steven – 1984
Newly assembled evidence indicates that children attending South Carolina's early childhood programs are better prepared for first grade than those who do not attend kindergarten. Children who attended some type of kindergarten in 1979-80 reached higher levels of achievement by the end of first grade than children who did not attend. These levels…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Child Development Centers, Early Childhood Education, Educational Assessment
Duckett, Jean Constance – 1981
Sixty beginning first-grade students in an urban school district in South Carolina participated in a study investigating the relationship between representational competence and the ability to perform first-grade learning tasks. Representational competence may be defined as the ability to use representations of reality (such as pictures, symbols,…
Descriptors: Cognitive Ability, Competence, Elementary School Students, Grade 1
Hill, Robert R.; And Others – 1980
This document reports the preliminary results of the Fall, 1980 administration of the Cognitive Skills Assessment Battery (CSAB) to all first grade students in South Carolina. This battery was administered in accordance with the mandate of the 1978 Act 631 of the state legislature. The CSAB is an individually administered readiness battery…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Comparative Analysis, Educational Research, Educational Resources
Garcia-Quintana, Roan; And Others – 1992
The Cognitive Skills Assessment Battery (CSAB), a school-readiness test, is administered to all public school students at the beginning of Grade 1 in South Carolina. This test is designed to measure a student's readiness to begin the formal school curriculum. The number of beginning first graders tested in 1992 (54,357) represented a decrease from…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Black Students, Cognitive Development, Disabilities
