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Title: Accountability: October to Test Day What can we do


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Accountability October to Test Day What can we
do?
  • Terry Wyatt

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Todays Agenda
  • Testing Changes for 2008-09
  • Test Selection Forces
  • AYP
  • TAKS-M Planning
  • Small and Large District Nuances
  • Exit Level Students
  • Impact Across all 4 Accountability Systems
  • SSI / TMSFA

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Accountability Solution
  • The Texas Legislature will be increasing school
    funding by 3 Billion dollars. Funds will be
    distributed in this school year.
  • Your district will use those extra funds to
    provide for additional instructional personnel.
  • There will be enough funding for important
    instructional materials.
  • NOT

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Accountability Realty
  • You dont control your funding streams.
  • You can and must maximize the effectiveness and
    efficiency of what you have.
  • How can the teachers in my classrooms impact
    student learning more every day?
  • How can I as an administrator enable my quality
    staff to make that happen?

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Accountability
  • AEIS
  • AYP
  • PBMAS
  • State Performance Plan

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AYP Results Released
  • Your district has access through the TEASE
    network to the early release information on your
    districts AYP results.
  • More districts and campuses failed to meet AYP
    this year. (My perspective)
  • The special education subgroup was a big player
    in these failures.
  • The SE student performance affected other
    subgroups.

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Emerging Test Information
  • Accommodations Manual
  • Posted to TEAs Website
  • Change areas to be sure to review
  • Calculators Dictionaries, Spelling assistance
  • Supplemental aides manipulatives
  • Page 79 TEA Chart
  • There is an electronic submission process for the
    ARF, although you will still be able to fax,
    mail, hand deliver.
  • Free chart available from Tri-County website.
    (10/13)
  • http//cs1.mcm.edu/tri-county/training.htm

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Accommodations Manual
  • Why is this important?
  • Our effective use of accommodations throughout
    the school year and during state-wide assessments
    can be an effective piece in helping students
    with disabilities come closer to mastery of grade
    level TEKS, and as a corollary the TAKS test.

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Testing SSI
  • Students in SSI grades who take TAKS-M will be
    subject to SSI requirements in the 2008-09 school
    year.
  • The state will offer three opportunities for
    students to take TAKS-M starting in 2008-09.
  • Students who take TAKS-Alt are still not subject
    to SSI at all.

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AYP
  • Participation
  • Performance
  • One other measure
  • Graduation
  • Attendance
  • Subgroups to Participation and Performance Only
  • Minimum size 50 and 10 200

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Subgroups
  • African American
  • Hispanic
  • White
  • Economically Disadvantaged
  • Special Education
  • LEP
  • Minimum Size Rules Apply 50 and 10, 200

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Passing Standards
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Multiple Test Opportunities
  • SSI grades provide students three opportunities
    to take the statewide assessment.
  • For AYP and AEIS the results of the first two
    tests can be used in accountability calculations.
  • AYP stacks the tests to determine which result
    to use.

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Test Stack
  • TAKS/TAKS Accommodated
  • TAKS LAT
  • TAKS-M
  • TAKS-M LAT
  • TAKS-Alt
  • TELPAS

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CAP
  • The federal government places a cap on the number
    of students who can BE COUNTED AS PASSERS on
    assessments which are not the general state
    assessment.
  • 1 on Alternate Achievement Standards
  • 2 on Modified Achievement Standards
  • TAKS-M is our 2 test
  • TAKS-Alt is our 1 test

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Artificial Failure
  • Students who exceed the cap are labeled
    artificial failures for the purposes of
    calculating AYP.
  • This is done at the DISTRICT level.
  • Once a student has been labeled as an AF, he/she
    is counted as an AF at all levels district,
    campus, state.
  • Thus, the cap impacts the campus, but is not
    calculated at the campus level.

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AYP Penalties
  • Only apply to Title I campuses and Districts
  • Must fail 2 consecutive years
  • 2 years to get in 2 years to get out

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Subgroup Challenge
  • From 2007 AYP Report of spring 08 test info
  • Does your special education subgroup contain more
    than 50 students?
  • Did any of your other subgroups which contain 50
    students flirt close to the passing standard?
  • 50 and 10 up to 200

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District Examples
  • District B
  • 600 Students,
  • 65 Special Education
  • 350 Economically Disadvantaged

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District B Ec. Dis.
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District B Ec. Dis. 2
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Passing Standards
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Lessons
  • Be aware of your subgroups which flirt with the
    passing standards for AYP and meet the minimum
    size rules.
  • Economic Disadvantage
  • LEP
  • Scrutinize you TAKS-M passing rates in reading
    and math. This will help you extrapolate how
    many students you should test on TAKS-M.
  • Study your TAKS-Acc. passing rates.
  • Adjust testing AND instruction

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TAKS-M Plan Suggestion
  • Campus must be self-monitoring. You must put
    enough students in TAKS-M that you fill the 2
    CAP with passers.
  • You cannot afford do have too many artificial
    failures.
  • Grades 7 12 may put 4 in TAKS-M
  • Grades 3 6 may put 3 in TAKS-M
  • Goal is to have 3.5 district-wide

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Small District Nuances
  • If a district does not have 50 students in the
    special education subgroup, what thinking should
    go before expanding the planned 3.5 planning
    cap?
  • Review Spring 08 results carefully, including
    changes to your demographics since then.
  • Exactly which subgroups did count, and which are
    expected to count this year?
  • What were your passing rates in those subgroups?

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Large District Considerations
  • Coordinating planning with multiple campuses,
    while respecting ARD authority.
  • Leadership, instruction, guidance, and monitoring
    are all critical.
  • Planning for campus ranking on Artificial
    Failure process
  • Subgroups, subgroups, subgroups. How will SE
    students in those SG affect the borderline?
  • Plan as a district, implement at the campus.

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Subgroup Thinking
  • Gen. Ed. TAKS passing 55, 58, 68, 78, 83
  • SE TAKS-Acc passing 35, 45, 55, 63, 71, 80
  • SE TAKS-M counters 15, 35, 55, 66, 80, 90
  • TAKS-Alt counters 15, 35, 55, 66, 80, 90, 100
  • The farther to the right you are on each of the
    above lines, the longer you will pass AYP.
  • The closer you line 1 score is to the AYP
    standard, the more critical lines 2-4 are.

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Instructional Planning for SE
  • Work to increase the learning curve for your
    special education students.
  • Include them in your RtI assessment process.
  • Monitor their progress on fluency and
    mathematical calculations.
  • Team with your special education staff to review
    this progress.
  • Based on the results you see from your special
    education students over the course of the year,
    work with your SE staff to adjust for improvement.

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Exit Level Students
  • What test can an 11th grader take?
  • Do those tests impact
  • AEIS?
  • AYP?
  • PBM?
  • What are the implications if a student is not
    able to pass an exam?
  • Can you exempt a student from all tests?
  • Exit Impact on Graduation Handout Soon

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Review
  • 2007-08 Testing Handout

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Impact on 4 Systems
  • AYP Best Approach
  • AEIS No risk as TAKS-M/Acc dont count
  • PBMAS Only risk is on report only participation
    indicator
  • SPP supports success on this system

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SSI
  • This is a state law which requires that students
    pass specific statewide assessments to be
    promoted to the next grade.
  • Students get three testing opportunities
  • A Grade Placement Committee (GPC) is the decision
    maker if a student does not pass.
  • ARD takes the place of GPC

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SSI Years
  • Grade 3 Reading
  • Grade 5 Reading and Math
  • Grade 8 Reading and Math

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GPC Duties after 2nd failure
  • Consider waiver requests
  • Parent may request no 3rd test
  • Consider parent appeal to go to next grade.

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TMSFA
  • Texas Middle School Fluency Assessment

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TMSFA
  • Emerged from Texas Legislature legislation.
  • Since 8th graders are expected to pass reading
    and math for promotion purposes, we are expected
    to do instructional assessment on struggling
    students in the 7th grade year.
  • Then we are expected to provide instruction to
    support the needs identified.

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Procedures
  • By August 1, 2008 districts were required to
    notify TEA of their choice of instruments.
  • Every 7th grade student who failed their
    state-wide assessment must be assessed in
    reading.
  • Assessment must be done if 1st six weeks of
    school. It must be done 3 times over the course
    of the year.
  • Information from the assessment should be used to
    provide instruction to those students.

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Which students does this affect?
  • TAKS Yes
  • TAKS-Ac. Yes
  • TAKS-M District Decision
  • TAKS-Alt No

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Plan of Action
  • I would do the following
  • Benchmark all 7th grade students who
  • Failed
  • 2150 or below
  • Reading and Math
  • Progress Monitor all
  • Develop supportive instructional program for all
  • Assess their progress over year.

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Contact Information
  • Terry Wyatt, Executive Director
  • Tri-County Co-Op
  • 120 S. Swenson
  • Stamford, Texas 79553
  • 325-773-3637 voice
  • 325-773-3915 fax
  • twyatt_at_tricty.esc14.net
  • http//cs1.mcm.edu/tri-county
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