Created by the Leaders in Early Childhood Education
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Three groundbreaking assessment tools in one
Discover a comprehensive assessment solution for early childhood education that brings together observational and game-based assessment that provides educators and administrators in public/private school programs as well as childcare programs with actionable data and insights to individualize learning and drive program improvement.
The GOLD standard in early childhood observational assessment
Make assessment an authentic part of instruction, not a disruption. Empower teachers to capture in the moment observations in an effortless, organic part of the teaching day.
- Industry-leading and most widely-used, whole-child ECE observational assessment tool.
- Empower teachers to easily capture and document in the moment observations without stopping instruction.
- Supports data-driven decisions to improve learning outcomes and individualize instruction.
- Get access to dashboards with actionable insights and a library of developmentally-appropriate learning activities.
- Meet all assessment and reporting requirements with powerful reports that demonstrate growth across the school year and track progress at the child, classroom, school/childcare center, and district levels.
- Identify trends and insights to drive decisions and program improvement
The Finch Literacy Screener is a research-backed, child-facing screening solution that gives educators actionable data to improve literacy outcomes by identifying children who may be at risk for reading difficulties—including dyslexia—and recommending progress monitoring to support targeted instruction.
- Leverages advanced, automatic speech recognition to capture and score language development data for each child.
- Transform what was once an arduous task for children and teachers into a fun and efficient way to capture a student’s literacy strengths and opportunities.
- Class and child-specific reporting that identify which children would benefit from additional support and provides teachers with intentional and targeted instructional recommendations to support these children.
- Family-facing reports help teachers guide conversations around child results.
- Allows for early intervention to support emerging literacy-based learning challenges.
Capture developmental progress directly from children
Get a fuller picture of each child’s learning and development using fun, child-facing, age-appropriate game-based direct student assessment.
- Fun, research-based and age appropriate
- Takes 5 minutes or less per child per week
- Games are adaptive and provide the right level of challenge for children by automatically adjusting questions along the developmental progression.
- Built-in accommodations such as audio speed control and “think time” between questions to ensure all children have an assessment experience that meets their needs.
- Provides deeper insights and gives teachers easily individualized instructional experiences for each child.
- Available in English and Spanish.
6 Reasons to Love GOLDFinch
Assessment made easier
Upload observations in the moment and capture data through child-facing games to fuel comprehensive assessments and individualized instruction.
Game-based and age-appropriate
Child-facing formative games capture developmental data directly in just 5 minutes of play per child per week.
Literacy and dyslexia screener
An integrated literacy screener with automated speech recognition helps identify children who are at risk for reading difficulties and/or dyslexia, allowing for early intervention.
Individualized learning made easier
Deeper, data-driven insights and automatic recommendations go beyond measurement to help teachers more easily individualize instruction for each child.
Uniquely comprehensive data
Multiple sources of evidence offer a fuller picture of each child’s progress and increase the quality of developmental data.
English and Spanish available
Game-based assessment tool has English and Spanish options to help fuel high-quality data.
GOLDFinch FAQs
GOLDFinch combines the most widely used and industry-leading observational assessment tool, GOLD, with new child-facing, game-based assessment and a new literacy screener. Together, they offer a comprehensive view of every child’s learning, development, and school readiness and provide educators with actionable data and insights to drive individualized learning.
- GOLD observational assessment supports children from birth to third grade.
- The literacy screener is designed for children ages 4 to 6.
- The child-facing game-based assessment is designed for children ages 3 to 6.
Yes, our new universal literacy screener identifies children who may be at risk for early reading challenges, including dyslexia.
Our child-facing game-based assessment tool captures developmental data directly through just 5 minutes of play per child per week.
Yes, GOLDFinch increases quality of developmental data by leveraging multiple sources of evidence and adding literacy-focused screening that goes beyond teacher observation.
