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Texas Student Data System Early Childhood Data System

Texas Education AgencyApril 1-3, 2014

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TSDS Education Data Warehouse Vision

The TEA data management environment is currently focused on meeting state and federal compliance reporting requirements.

An LEA facing data warehouse will make near real time, actionable data available to educators and relevant stakeholders.

State and federal reporting needs can be met more transparently, using data that LEAs will provide for the Education Data Warehouse (EDW).

Click to edit Master title styleWhat is ECDS?

Early Childhood Data System is the collection of both PK and KG student data, which includes both student demographic and assessment data.

ECDS is formerly known as the Kindergarten Readiness System (KRS)

KRS data was previously collected using a now obsolete application called OZ Systems

ECDS is the first of several state and federal reporting collections that will be integrated into TSDS.

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Why Collect ECDS Data?

To fulfill requirements mandated by the Texas Legislature in the following Texas Education Codes: TEC 28.006 (c) – (Kindergarten) Sec. 29.1532 – (Pre-kindergarten) Sec 29.161 – (Reading Diagnosis)

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To certify the effectiveness of child care programs in preparing children for kindergarten Public & Private Pre-Kindergarten Programs Head Start and Early Head Start Programs Non-Profit or For-Profit Entities Government

Subsidized Child Care Programs Faith-Based Government Subsidized Child Care

Programs Other Government Subsidized Child Care Programs

Why Collect ECDS Data?

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Purpose of ECDS

To inform parents, school administrators, the public, statewide stakeholders, the early childhood education community, and policy makers about the quality of early childhood education and direct resources in an informed manner.

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ECDS Collection Timeline

Phase 1 Kindergarten

2013-2014 School YearOpens June 1, 2014Closes July 31, 2014

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ECDS Collection Timeline

Phase 2 Pre-Kindergarten

School Years2012-2013 2013-2014

Opens August 1, 2014 Closes October 31, 2014

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Who Reports ECDS Data?

Kindergarten ECDS Data (Mandatory)

Collection of student demographics and assessments LEAs who administer the Commissioner’s List of English

Reading Instruments Exemption

LEAs administering an assessment that is not compatible with ECDS as described in the ‘To The Administrator Addressed’ letter (see link below) will notify the TEA program area of the type of assessment used, and the LEA will be responsible for retaining the data should TEA decide to collect at a later date.

‘To the Administrator Addressed’ letter link: http://www.tea.state.tx.us/index4.aspx?id=25769807829

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Who Reports ECDS Data?

Pre-Kindergarten ECDS Data (Optional)

Collection of student demographics Public & Private Pre-Kindergarten Programs

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Commissioner’s List of English Reading Instruments

Texas Primary Reading Inventory (TPRI) ISIP DIBELS-6th edition IDEL DIBELS Next AIMSweb (TEL and MIDE) Children’s Progress Academic Assessment (CPAA) Diagnostic Assessments of Reading, 2nd Edition (DAR-2) Fox in a Box EasyCBM

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Commissioner’s List of English Reading Instruments (cont.)

ISIP Espanol Assessment ISIP Early Reading 4 Measures of Academic Progress (MAP) STAR Early Literacy STAR Reading Enterprise Vital Indicators of Progress (VIP) Phonemic Awareness & Phonics Inventory (PAPI-E) Phonological Awareness Literacy Screening (PALS) Gates-MacGinitie Reading Tests Woodstock Johnson Diagnostic Reading Battery (WJ III DRB)

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Commissioner’s List of Spanish Reading Instruments

AIMSweb Spanish El Inventario de Lectura en Espanol de Tejax (TEJAS LEE) Istation’s Indicators of Progress-Spanish (ISIP Espanol) Phonemic Awareness & Phonics Inventory - Spanish (PAPI-S) Test of Phonological Awareness in Spanish (TPAS)

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Reporting ECDS Data – Interim Solution

Interim Solution Data for both Pre-K and Kindergarten will be

documented by LEAs using MS Excel templates An XML converter will be provided by TEA for LEAs to

convert data from MS Excel to the TEDS Compliant Interchange XML files.

XML files will be loaded either manually in the eDM or by using the Data Transfer Utility (DTU).

These templates will be supplied until all LEAs are loading data to the EDW

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Reporting Kindergarten Data

Kindergarten Data submission is mandatory 33 data elements collected Data will be collected for school year

2013-2014

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Reporting Pre-Kindergarten Data

Pre-Kindergarten Data submission is optional for all PK school

types 25 data elements collected Data will be collected for school years

2012-2013 2013-2014

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Reporting ECDS Data – Permanent Solution

Permanent Solution The TSDS Collection will be used by LEAs for

required state and federal reporting and the optional studentGPS™ Dashboards

ECDS will be the first state data collection reported using the TSDS collection

Early Adopters of TSDS who report ECDS data will use the TSDS Collection for reporting

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ECDS Data Standards

The ECDS Data Standards will be part of the Texas Education Data Standards (TEDS) New Section 10: Core Collections

Available April 7th on TEDS website

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ECDS Support Model

TSDS Incident Management System (TIMS) will be the support model for ECDS

TIMS uses the following support levels: Level 1 – LEA Level 2 – ESC Level 3 – TEA Business Level 4 – TEA Technical

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