What is the ADP?
The Alaska Developmental Profile is Alaska's Kindergarten entry assessment. The ADP is used to provide a snapshot of each child’s development when they enter Kindergarten.
The Alaska Developmental Profile is Alaska's Kindergarten entry assessment. The ADP is used to provide a snapshot of each child’s development when they enter Kindergarten.
The Alaska Developmental Profile is required as part of the statewide comprehensive system of student assessments, 4 AAC 06.712. The ADP documents what students know and do which is used to inform practice and instruction as well as statewide policy.
The Alaska Developmental Profile (ADP) assesses 13 goals across 5 domains of development. They are:
1) Physical Well-being, Health, & Motor Development
2) Social & Emotional Development
3) Approaches to Learning
4) Cognition & General Knowledge
5) Communication, Language, & Literacy
Teachers are also required to include “child background” information because these factors affect a child’s school performance. This includes the child’s pre-school experience, if the child has an individualized education program (IEP), and the child’s health information. Teachers are encouraged to talk to parents to get this background information.
The Alaska Developmental Profile (ADP) looks at 13 goals across 5 domains of learning. These goals are:
1) Demonstrates strength and coordination of large motor muscles
2) Demonstrates strength and coordination of small motor muscles
3) Participates positively in group activities
4) Regulates feelings and impulses
5) Shows curiosity and interest in learning new things & having new experiences
6) Sustains attention to tasks and persists when facing challenges
7) Demonstrates knowledge of numbers & counting
8) Sorts, classifies, and organizes objects
9) Uses receptive communication skills
10) Uses expressive communication skills
11) Demonstrates phonological awareness
12) Demonstrates awareness of print concepts
13) Demonstrates knowledge of letters and symbols (alphabet knowledge)
No. The ADP may only be administered once per student.
If you have questions about whether a retained student had completed an ADP the previous year, please contact earlylearning@alaska.gov or call 907-465-8707
Students who start school and then move away before the ADP deadline still require a completed ADP.
Background information comprises a variety of information, including home language, culture, and socio-economic status. It is recommended this information be gathered from the student’s family or previous early childhood educator.
It is required that preschool attendance be recorded. There is a place in the ADP where this is specifically requested.
You may use a district-created form or one that you have developed yourself.
Only students who did not previously attend kindergarten will be assessed.
Please call 907-465-8707 or email earlylearning@alaska.gov
The reporting site https://education.alaska.gov/devprof/Home is only accessible from September 17 through November 1st
Your username is your first initial followed by your full last name. This includes any special symbols such as ' or -. This also includes spaces.
Your username will only be changed if you did a name-change on your teaching certificate through the DEED certification office.
Your password is your ATI number. It can be found on the back of your teaching certificate or at https://education.alaska.gov/DevProf/Home/FindAti?Intent=RegisteringAccount
District Testing Coordinators (DTC) are responsible for uploading student lists to populate the teacher portal. Please contact your DTC to complete this requirement.
Teachers populate their own ADP profile list by clicking on student's names in the available student list.
If you accidentally added a student that is not in your class, click "Pick Students" and double click on that student's name to return them to the available student pool.
Provide your Home School parents with the ADP resources and have them complete the observations and ratings in all 13 goals.
Since the parents are not certified teachers, some districts have a certified teacher as their Home School Coordinator enter the data and others have the District Testing Coordinator (DTC) enter the data.
The due date for the ADP is November 1st.
After completing a profile, you must click "Submit" for the profile to be considered complete.
If you have changed districts, your new district must update your information in their system. Please contact your District Testing Coordinator (DTC) to resolve this issue.
The Department of Education and Early Development (DEED) uses the ADP data to inform policy, practice, and instruction. The data is also used for federal reporting purposes.
ADP results will be available in December.
ADP reporting changed to align with the new statewide assessment system.
These phrases indicate the level of developmental readiness a child has demonstrated. "Consistently met all 13 goals" means the child is well-prepared across all developmental domains. "Consistently met at least 11 of the 13 goals" suggests the child is generally well-prepared but may have specific areas that require targeted support.