Accountability Webinar November 4, 2015

Kim Gilson

Sr Consultant, Data and Accountability

Region 10 ESC

972-348-1480

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Agenda

• New Accountability Consultant!

• New Phase-in Chart and Ramifications

• Identifying Index 2 and 3 Groups

• SB 149 Tidbit

• Accountability Overview Video

• On Data Suite (Formerly Peims Data Plus)

• Upcoming Webinar Dates

• Coming Soon!

New (Additional) Accountability Consultant!

Doni CashCurriculum and Assessment Services Senior

Consultant

New Phase-in Chart

The Commissioner’s Diagram

Lead4ward’s Document

Identifying Index 2 and 3 Groups for 2016

Index 2 Minimum Size Requirements

• In order for a student group to meet minimum size, the group must have 25 TESTS (not STUDENTS)• These 25 tests are COMBINED

• 2015 was Reading + Writing + Algebra 1• 2016 will be Reading + Writing + Math

• Therefore, you may have student groups meet minimum size in 2016 that didn’t in 2015

• You can use your Snapshot data to estimate how many students might contribute to each group for 2016, understanding that not every student will qualify for the progress measure

Index 3

• Per correspondence from TEA dated October 14, 2015 • The federal system safeguards data are provided to your

district and campuses for informational purposes only. However, for state accountability in 2016, data from the federal safeguard reports will be used to determine the two lowest-performing racial/ethnic groups from 2015 for the purpose of calculating Index 3 scores, given these data include the STAAR mathematics, STAAR A, and STAAR Alternate 2 results referenced above.

Index 3 Group Identification Methodology

• 1. Economically Disadvantaged will count

• 2. Up to 2 Race/Ethnicity Group• Which groups have at least 25 tests in Reading and 25 tests in

Math?• If 3+ groups meet that criteria, select the lowest 2• If 2 groups meet that criteria, select the lowest 1• If 1 group meets the criteria, you have no Race/Ethnicity Group

• To identify the lowest group, go the performance for that group for All Subjects Combined

However…

• Federal Safeguard Reports don’t include the All Subjects Combined line like the State Index 1 Reports Do

Sample State Index 1 Report

Sample Federal Safeguard Report

So, how do you determine your lowest performing groups?

Calculating the Lowest Performing Group

Total Number of Tests at Phase-in Satisfactory Standard (Reading+Math+Writing+Science+Social Studies)

Divided by

Total Number of Tests

(Reading+Math+Writing+Science+Social Studies)

From Sample Data: African American Students

(38 + 33 + 18 + 14 + 16)

Divided by

(49 + 49 + 26 + 23 + 23)

Equals

119 Divided by 170

Equals 70%

SB 149 Tidbit

• BACKGROUND INFORMATION AND JUSTIFICATION: SB 149 revised the state's assessment graduation requirements for students in general education by allowing alternative methods for graduation for students classified in Grade 11 or 12 during the 2014-2015, 2015-2016, or 2016-2017 school years who have taken each EOC assessment but have failed to achieve the EOC assessment performance requirements in no more than two courses. Since SB 149 allows certain students in general education to graduate under any available graduation program without achieving satisfactory performance on each of the EOC assessments, the rule applicable to students receiving special education services requires amendment to maintain alignment.

• This means this will apply to current Sophomores

Accountability Overview Video

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SrYWI84PozY

• Describes the expectations of the accountability system in broad terms

• Designed for Superintendents

• A suite of simple tools to help you easily view, report and visualize your data. 

• Uses PEIMS, TAPR, Assessment, College Readiness and other data files.

• We liked it so much that we purchased it for Region to so we could look for ways to better serve you.

• Display publicly available TAPR data on your website.

• Easy to use graphical interface to show STAAR/EOC, Employee and Finance data.

• Compare your district/campus to any other Texas school.

• Compare PEIMS and student assessment data.

• Data wharehouse

• “Comingle” • PEIMS student• Finance• Enrollment• Attendance• Discipline • Dtaff data • Assessment data.

• Pre-Created and Custom reporting

• PEIMS Validation

Interested?

• Web Demo’s• 11/18 – 10:00am – Link to Register• 12/8 – 10:00am – Link to Register

• Contact Jim Newhouse (jim.Newhouse@region10.org) for more information.

Coming Soon…

How to understand your TAPR

Upcoming Webinar Dates

• November 19, 8:30 am

• December 2, 1:00 pm