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ASSESSMENT UPDATE Instructional Leaders 9/19/2013

ASSESSMENT UPDATE Instructional Leaders 9/19/2013. Presented by: Education Service Center Region XI. Grades 3-8 STAAR Assessments. Continues to test 3-8 mathematics and reading 4 and 7 writing 5 and 8 science 8 social studies Spanish version available in grades3-5.

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ASSESSMENT UPDATE Instructional Leaders 9/19/2013

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  1. ASSESSMENT UPDATEInstructional Leaders9/19/2013 Presented by: Education Service Center Region XI

  2. Grades 3-8 STAAR Assessments Continues to test • 3-8 mathematics and reading • 4 and 7 writing • 5 and 8 science • 8 social studies • Spanish version available in grades3-5 Revised 9/11/13 Provided by: ESC Region XI • 3001 North Freeway • Fort Worth • Texas • 76106 • www.esc11.net

  3. End of Course STAAR AssessmentHouse Bill 5 Students are required to pass five STAAR EOC assessments to meet graduation requirements. • Algebra I • English I (combined reading/writing spring 2014) • English II (combined reading/writing spring 2014) • Biology • U.S. History Effective June 12, 2013 Revised 9/11/13 Provided by: ESC Region XI • 3001 North Freeway • Fort Worth • Texas • 76106 • www.esc11.net

  4. Education Legislation Status • Briefing Book on Public Education Legislation • Texas Education Agency • 83rd Texas Legislative Session • July 2013 • http://www.tea.state.tx.us/Communications/Announcements/2013_Announcements/Legislative_briefing_book_details_new_laws/ Revised 9/11/13 Provided by: ESC Region XI • 3001 North Freeway • Fort Worth • Texas • 76106 • www.esc11.net

  5. House Bill 5 (HB 5) Revised 9/11/13 Provided by: ESC Region XI • 3001 North Freeway • Fort Worth • Texas • 76106 • www.esc11.net

  6. House Bill 5 - Assessment Eliminated: 15% rule Cumulative score required for graduation Use of a Minimum Score towards graduation Revised 9/11/13 Provided by: ESC Region XI • 3001 North Freeway • Fort Worth • Texas • 76106 • www.esc11.net

  7. House Bill 5 - Assessment Students who have taken a required EOC assessment, but have not passed, must demonstrate satisfactory performance to meet the state’s graduation requirements. Effective June 12, 2013 Revised 9/11/13 Provided by: ESC Region XI • 3001 North Freeway • Fort Worth • Texas • 76106 • www.esc11.net

  8. Transition RulesAffecting the Texas Assessment Program August 2, 2013, letter To The Administrator Addressed TEA is proposing to maintain the minimum – and cumulative – score concepts to determine whether students taking these assessments have met their English I and English II graduation requirements Revised 9/11/13 Provided by: ESC Region XI • 3001 North Freeway • Fort Worth • Texas • 76106 • www.esc11.net

  9. Transition Rules Affecting the Texas Assessment Program - Continued • These concepts would be applied within each course, not across courses, and would require students who took separate reading and writing assessments to meet three criteria: • pass one assessment (either reading or writing); • meet at least the minimum score on the other; and • achieve a combined scale score of 3750 (the phase-in 1 standard), which represents the sum of the scale scores needed to reach Level II for reading (1875) and Level II for writing (1875). Revised 9/11/13 Provided by: ESC Region XI • 3001 North Freeway • Fort Worth • Texas • 76106 • www.esc11.net

  10. House Bill 5 - Assessment STAAR English I and II Students, who have not successfully met their graduation requirements for English I or II by spring 2014, will take the new combined English assessment, which will have one score. 2014 Time Limit for English I and II- 5 hours Revised 9/11/13 Provided by: ESC Region XI • 3001 North Freeway • Fort Worth • Texas • 76106 • www.esc11.net

  11. House Bill 5 - Assessment Accelerated instruction is still required for any students who did not pass STAAR assessments in grades 3-8 and for the following EOC assessments: • Algebra I • English I (reading/writing) • English II (reading/writing) • Biology • U. S. History Revised 9/11/13 Provided by: ESC Region XI • 3001 North Freeway • Fort Worth • Texas • 76106 • www.esc11.net

  12. House Bill 5 – Assessment • Release of STAAR Assessments • Requires the agency to release general STAAR assessments for grades 3-8 and EOC and STAAR Spanish assessments in • 2012-2013 • 2013-2014 • 2014-2015 • 2015-2016 Printed versions of the released tests may be ordered online for an additional charge at http://www.TexasAssessment.com/publications. Revised 9/11/13 Provided by: ESC Region XI • 3001 North Freeway • Fort Worth • Texas • 76106 • www.esc11.net

  13. House Bill 5 – Assessment • Release of STAAR Assessments • Requires the agency to release STAAR Modified for grades 3-8 and EOC in • 2013-2014 • 2014-2015 • 2015-2016 • Requires the agency to release general STAAR, STAAR Spanish, and STAAR Modified every third year thereafter. Revised 9/11/13 Provided by: ESC Region XI • 3001 North Freeway • Fort Worth • Texas • 76106 • www.esc11.net

  14. House Bill 5 - Assessment Revised 9/11/13 Provided by: ESC Region XI • 3001 North Freeway • Fort Worth • Texas • 76106 • www.esc11.net Except as required by federal law, students in grades 3-8 are not required to be administered a grade-level assessment in a subject if the student is administered an above-grade level assessment in the same subject area. Section 39.023 Requires accelerated students to double test so they have scores to use for AYP in grades 3–8 and in high school, e.g., grade 8 math and Algebra I. Refer to the August 2, 2013, letter To the Administrator Addressed.

  15. Other Legislation Related to Assessment Revised 9/11/13 Provided by: ESC Region XI • 3001 North Freeway • Fort Worth • Texas • 76106 • www.esc11.net

  16. Other Changes Based on HB 5 Each board of trustees must adopt and enforce a policy limiting the removal of students from class for remedial tutoring or test preparation. Section 25.083 A student may not be removed for remedial tutoring or test preparation if, as a result, the student would miss more than 10% of the school days on which the class is offered unless the parent gives written consent. Section 25.083 Students in grades K-12 may not be given credit or a final grade for a class unless in attendance for at least 90% of the days the class is offered. Section 25.092 Revised 9/11/13 Provided by: ESC Region XI • 3001 North Freeway • Fort Worth • Texas • 76106 • www.esc11.net

  17. Other Changes Based on HB 5 Requires the commissioner to establish assessment administration procedures that minimize disruptions to school operations and classroom environments. Section 25.083 (a) Revised 9/11/13 Provided by: ESC Region XI • 3001 North Freeway • Fort Worth • Texas • 76106 • www.esc11.net

  18. Other Changes Based on HB 5 Coming 2014 Requires the commissioner to provide a scale score to a 100-point conversion table. Section 39.025 (a) Allows satisfactory performance on other assessments (e.g., AP, IB, SAT, ACT) in equivalent courses to substitute for performance on STAAR EOC assessments. Section 39.025 (a-1) Revised 9/11/13 Provided by: ESC Region XI • 3001 North Freeway • Fort Worth • Texas • 76106 • www.esc11.net

  19. Currently ProposedCommissioner Rules Affecting the Texas Assessment Program SUBSTITUTE ASSESSMENTS TO FULFILL GRADUATION REQUIREMENTS FOR STAAR The proposed substitute assessment rule will allow students to substitute certain comparable tests for corresponding STAAR EOC assessments for graduation purposes. TEA will implement this rule in the 2013–2014 school year with an effective date retroactive to the 2011­–2012 school year. Revised 9/11/13 Provided by: ESC Region XI • 3001 North Freeway • Fort Worth • Texas • 76106 • www.esc11.net

  20. Currently ProposedCommissioner Rules Affecting the Texas Assessment Program SUBSTITUTE ASSESSMENTS TO FULFILL GRADUATION REQUIREMENTS FOR STAAR TEA will determine the cut scores that can be used to satisfy a student’s testing requirement for graduation. It will be the responsibility of the district and the student to verify the results on substitute assessments for graduation purposes. Revised 9/11/13 Provided by: ESC Region XI • 3001 North Freeway • Fort Worth • Texas • 76106 • www.esc11.net

  21. Proposed Revisions to 19 TAC Chapter 101, Assessment, Subchapter DD, Commissioner's Rules Concerning Alternative Exit-Level Assessments Public Comment Period: September 20, 2013 - October 21, 2013. Earliest Possible Date of Adoption: October 21, 2013. Proposed Effective Date: November 28, 2013.

  22. House Bill 5 - Other • BENCHMARK TESTING • Limits the number of benchmark assessments to two per state assessment. Section 39.0263 (b) • HB 5 prohibits districts from administering more than two benchmark tests for any corresponding grade/subject or course STAAR assessment. Revised 9/11/13 Provided by: ESC Region XI • 3001 North Freeway • Fort Worth • Texas • 76106 • www.esc11.net

  23. Miscellaneous

  24. What’s New at TEA? • Assessments for students served by special education and assessments for ELLs are now the responsibility of the Assessments for Special Populations Unit in the Student Assessment Division.

  25. TAKS • Eligibility criteria for TAKS exit level retests: • Must have TAKS as a graduation requirement • Must be classified as an 11th grader or higher • Administration of Texas Assessment of Knowledge and Skills (TAKS) exit level is available for students who are taking the test for the first time and are classified as 11thgraders or above in October, 2013. Revised 9/11/13 Provided by: ESC Region XI • 3001 North Freeway • Fort Worth • Texas • 76106 • www.esc11.net

  26. Grade 4 Writing Prompt Study Grade 4 students at selected campuses will participate in the English version of the STAAR writing prompt study on March 3, 2014. Districts selected to participate in the writing prompt study were notified. For those districts selected, campus assignments will be posted to the Texas Assessment Management System, delivered through PearsonAccess.

  27. Grade 4 Writing Prompt Study A grade 4 writing prompt study for the Spanish version of STAAR will also be administered on March 3, 2014. Because of the small number of testers statewide, all grade 4 students who will take the STAAR Spanish grade 4 writing assessment in spring 2014 will be required to participate in this study. Materials for the STAAR Spanish writing prompt study will be sent to districts based on the 2014 participation information provided to Pearson in fall 2013.

  28. STAAR TEST DESIGN Revised 9/11/13 Provided by: ESC Region XI • 3001 North Freeway • Fort Worth • Texas • 76106 • www.esc11.net

  29. STAAR English I and II Assessments Revised Blueprints

  30. STAAR PERFORMANCESTANDARDS Revised 9/11/13 Provided by: ESC Region XI • 3001 North Freeway • Fort Worth • Texas • 76106 • www.esc11.net

  31. Currently ProposedCommissioner Rules Affecting the Texas Assessment Program TEA is proposing to maintain the phase-in 1 performance standards for the STAAR program for the 2013–2014 school year. Revised 9/11/13 Provided by: ESC Region XI • 3001 North Freeway • Fort Worth • Texas • 76106 • www.esc11.net

  32. Currently ProposedCommissioner Rules Affecting the Texas Assessment Program • There are two primary reasons for this proposal: • For grades 3–8, schools did not receive performance-level data on students until January 2013, which limited the time available to adjust instruction prior to the spring 2013 test administrations. • For all grades and courses, schools did not have access either to a released test form (as they had in the first year of TAKS) or to the associated item-level analysis for their students. Revised 9/11/13 Provided by: ESC Region XI • 3001 North Freeway • Fort Worth • Texas • 76106 • www.esc11.net

  33. Currently ProposedCommissioner Rules Affecting the Texas Assessment Program • APPLICATION OF PERFORMANCE STANDARDS ON EOC ASSESSMENTS • TEA is proposing that the performance standard needed to meet the testing requirement for graduation be based on the performance standard in place when students take their first EOC test and apply to all five EOC assessments. • For example, for students who took STAAR Algebra I in spring 2013, the first phase-in standard for Level II: Satisfactory Performance would apply to Algebra I, STAAR English I, English II, biology, and U.S. history. Revised 9/11/13 Provided by: ESC Region XI • 3001 North Freeway • Fort Worth • Texas • 76106 • www.esc11.net

  34. Currently ProposedCommissioner Rules Affecting the Texas Assessment Program • APPLICATION OF PERFORMANCE STANDARDS ON EOC ASSESSMENTS • TEA is proposing that students who took Algebra I and received course credit prior to the 2011–2012 school year not be required to take the STAAR Algebra I assessment. Revised 9/11/13 Provided by: ESC Region XI • 3001 North Freeway • Fort Worth • Texas • 76106 • www.esc11.net

  35. Currently ProposedCommissioner Rules Affecting the Texas Assessment Program • APPLICATION OF PERFORMANCE STANDARDS ON EOC ASSESSMENTS • Students cannot use a passing score for a STAAR EOC assessment that is no longer required for graduation as a substitute for an assessment that is still required. • For example, a passing score on STAAR geometry cannot be used in lieu of not meeting the required passing standard on Algebra I to satisfy the mathematics testing requirement for graduation since geometry and Algebra I are not equivalent courses with regard to content. Revised 9/11/13 Provided by: ESC Region XI • 3001 North Freeway • Fort Worth • Texas • 76106 • www.esc11.net

  36. STAARfor English Language Learners Revised 9/11/13 Provided by: ESC Region XI • 3001 North Freeway • Fort Worth • Texas • 76106 • www.esc11.net

  37. Special English I EOC ProvisionsTAC §101.1007 • When enrolled in English I/ESOL I course, eligible ELL shall not be required to retake assessment each time it is administered if student passes course but does not meet standard. For ELLs who ― • have been enrolled in U.S. schools 3 school years or less (5 or less if qualifying unschooled asylee/refugee) and • have not yet attained TELPAS advanced high reading rating • Rule to be posted for public comment in October for 30 days • Note: • Students are not exempt from testing while in the course • Provisions do not apply to English II

  38. Currently ProposedCommissioner Rules Affecting the Texas Assessment Program • ENGLISH LANGUAGE LEARNERS AND ENGLISH EOC GRADUATION REQUIREMENTS • ELL students who qualify • still have to take the English I EOC assessment, but will not have to pass it to meet the assessment graduation requirements. • need to take and pass the English II assessment to meet this requirement. Revised 9/11/13 Provided by: ESC Region XI • 3001 North Freeway • Fort Worth • Texas • 76106 • www.esc11.net

  39. STAAR L • Beginning in spring 2014, students in grades 5 and 8 who participate in STAAR L will be held to the Student Success Initiative requirements. Students in grades 5 and 8 who participate in STAAR L will have three opportunities to pass the STAAR L mathematics test and three opportunities to pass the STAAR reading test. Revised 9/11/13 Provided by: ESC Region XI • 3001 North Freeway • Fort Worth • Texas • 76106 • www.esc11.net

  40. 2013 STAAR L Administrations • Online interface provided certain linguistic accommodations for qualifying students: • Clarification in English at the word or phrase level for pre-determined words • Words read aloud at the word-by-word level • 35,000 students across the state were administered STAAR L across all administrations in 2013

  41. STAAR L Online Student Tutorial • Available early spring 2014 • Minor updates to grades 3–8; Updates to EOC version to address assessment changes from HB 5 • Should be used to familiarize students with clarification and read aloud accommodations and standard TestNav tools • Test administration directions for operational STAAR L assessments will assume some familiarity with online interface

  42. STAAR L Practice Sets Practice sets consist of approximately 25 items for each STAAR L assessment To be posted in early 2014 Will be available in online format similar to TELPAS so that students may experience the items as they will be presented in the operational administration.

  43. Data Collection Changes • Beginning in the 2013–2014 school year, students must be enrolled for 60 consecutive school days for that year to count in years in U.S. schools calculations. Please note that this is not to be calculated retroactively. • Unschooled Asylee Refugee • Continue as it has in the past • Students with Interrupted Formal Education (SIFE) • SIFE and Limited Prior Schooling groups from 2012–2013 have been collapsed • This data will be collected through the student data upload • Specific information will be included in the 2014 DCCM

  44. ACCOMMODATIONS Revised 9/11/13 Provided by: ESC Region XI • 3001 North Freeway • Fort Worth • Texas • 76106 • www.esc11.net

  45. Accommodations • Standardized Oral Administration (SOA) for the STAAR program will be offered statewide as an online option for oral administration in the 2013–2014 school year. • Districts will be given the opportunity to test students using SOA in the following grades and subjects: • grade 4 reading and mathematics • grade 7 reading and mathematics • grade 8 science and social studies

  46. Accommodations • Standardized Oral Administration (SOA) • “Pilot” study in Spring 2013 • Offered online through TestNav • The computer will read test questions and answer choices to students • Allows students to switch between continuous read and word only modes Revised 9/11/13 Provided by: ESC Region XI • 3001 North Freeway • Fort Worth • Texas • 76106 • www.esc11.net

  47. Accommodations • Standardized Oral Administration (SOA) • Student can control the playback – replay, stop & start, speed, etc. • Headphones/ear buds needed – local decision • Scored online through TestNav, like EOC online is now when using an SOA. Revised 9/11/13 Provided by: ESC Region XI • 3001 North Freeway • Fort Worth • Texas • 76106 • www.esc11.net

  48. STAAR MODIFIED AND STAAR ALTERNATE Revised 9/11/13 Provided by: ESC Region XI • 3001 North Freeway • Fort Worth • Texas • 76106 • www.esc11.net

  49. STAAR Modified USDE - assessments based on modified standards for students served by special education cannot be used for accountability purposes after the 2013–2014 school year. Further information regarding plans for the inclusion of this population of students in the general assessment program beginning with the 2014–2015 school year will be forthcoming. Revised 9/11/13 Provided by: ESC Region XI • 3001 North Freeway • Fort Worth • Texas • 76106 • www.esc11.net

  50. Currently ProposedCommissioner Rules Affecting the Texas Assessment Program REDESIGN OF THE STAAR ALTERNATE PROGRAM HB 5 requires that the agency develop an alternate assessment for the most severely cognitively disabled students that does not require teachers to prepare tasks or materials. This newly designed alternate assessment will be administered for the first time in the spring of the 2014–2015 school year. Revised 9/11/13 Provided by: ESC Region XI • 3001 North Freeway • Fort Worth • Texas • 76106 • www.esc11.net

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