Design Principles for Accelerating Student Learning with High-Impact Tutoring (updated June 2024)
Category: Student Learning
Instrument Overview
The Coding Readiness Assessment (CRA) is a 21-item assessment of computational thinking and coding readiness for 3-5 year olds. It assesses constructs like sequences, patterns, looping, debugging, modeling, modularity, and spatial reasoning. Because it doesn't rely on actual coding skills, but rather tasks that are analogous to coding activities, it is appropriate for young children. In addition, it does not rely on written language but rather consists of an adult asking questions about images that the child sees. This assessment expands on the TechCheck-PreK assessment (Relkin, 2022).
Organization
Topic
Content
Grades
Pre-Kindergarten
Keywords
coding ; computational thinking ; computer science
Languages
English
Respondent
Student
Administration Information
Length
21 items, 10 min
Qualifications
none
Administration
Computer
Access and Use
Developer
Emily Relkin at EDC
Contact
Emily Relking: erelkin101@gmail.com
Open Access
Yes
Setting
Classroom,
Afterschool
Psychometrics (additional guidance)
Psychometric References
Relkin, E., Doss, C., Jones, V. L., & Pane, J. F. (2025). Coding Readiness Assessment: A Measure of Computational Thinking for Preschoolers. Education Sciences, 15(1), 9. https://doi.org/10.3390/educsci15010009
