The state contracted with Turning Point, Inc. to carry out an evaluation of the Silver State Kindergarten Inventory of Development Statewide (SSKIDS) Pilot. This project involved the first phase of evaluating the Silver State KIDS pilot funded by Senate Bill 486, which was passed during the 2013 Legislative Session. Teaching Strategies GOLD (TSG) is the selected tool that has been used throughout this project. Teaching Strategies GOLD is a developmentally appropriate, criterion-referenced system for assessing the knowledge, skills, and behaviors of children from birth through kindergarten. It blends ongoing, authentic observational assessment across 10 areas of development and learning with performance-assessment tasks for selected literacy and numeracy objectives. The purpose of the SSKIDS evaluation, as stated in the original Request for Bids, was for the State of Nevada to understand if the tool does all of the above in Nevada, if Nevada teachers and parents find it easy to use and informative, and whether the state should continue to use the tool into the next biennium. Of primary interest to Nevada, as noted by the Nevada Early Childhood Advisory Council (Nevada ECAC) and the Department of Education was using the TSG assessment tool to determine kindergarten readiness--what percent of children enter kindergarten "ready to learn." The objective of the SSKIDS pilot according to the Nevada ECAC website is to "implement a statewide kindergarten assessment that measures what a child knows and can do upon kindergarten entry, and establish a plan for building a coordinated early childhood data system that links Pre-K data with K-12 data." (author abstract)