Community Assessment 2020-2025

Sacramento Employment and Training Agency 2020-2025
Desired Results Development Profile (DRDP) Data
Through the analysis of child assessment data, Sacramento County Head Start programs are able
to substantiate the attainment of School Readiness Goals. Children’s developmental abilities are
gathered through ongoing observation and assessment using the Desired Results Developmental
Profile (DRDP) PS2010. The California Department of Education/Early Care and Services
Division developed the DRDP to help agencies effectively assess children’s progress and improve
quality outcomes in early care and education. This tool is aligned to both the California Preschool
Foundations at the state level and the Head Start Early Learning Framework at the federal level.
In the 2018-2019 grant year children enrolled in the countywide Head Start program have
shown growth as illustrated from the Desired Results Developmental Profile (DRDP) assessment
results shown in the following chart:
Central Domains of the
DRDP
Percentage of children scoring in top 2 sub-levels
Building Later & Integrating Earlier
Fall 2018 Winter 2019 Growth Percentage
Approaches to Learning 14.7% 21.4% 6.7%
Social/ Emotional 26.2% 40.0% 13.8%
Language & Literacy 21.8% 33.7% 11.9%
Cognitive 16.1% 27.8% 11.7%
Perceptual/Motor/Physical 43.1% 51.4% 8.3%
Mid-year DRDP data shows significant positive growth in all domains with additional growth
expected in the remaining months of the school year. The chart above shows how the SETA
Operated Program has progressed this past year. The percentage of 3-year-olds in the program in
2018-19 increased by 10.8% from the 2017-18 winter assessment period. The percentage of 5-
year-olds decreased by 15.4% from the 2017-18 to 2018-19 winter assessment. The percentage of
ELLs in the program increased by 5.4% from the 2017-18 to 2018-19 winter assessment. Taking
into account the changes in demographics over the past year, the percentage of children starting at
a lower developmental level has increased. Based on age equivalency, children ages 3 and 4 are
making greater gains in the cognitive and language domain than the previous scores in the 2017-
18 school year. The domains that are showing the biggest growth are in the areas of Social and
Emotional Development and Language and Literacy. While it has a strong growth percentage,
Cognition is still low in comparison to other domains. SETA will be implementing Scope and
Sequence Math training along with a new resource called Build on Math to assist teachers with
meaningful math learning opportunities in their classrooms.
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