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ASSESSMENT UPDATEInstructional Leaders

9/19/2013

Presented by: Education Service Center Region XI

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

Grades 3-8 STAAR Assessments

Revised 9/11/13 Provided by: ESC Region XI • 3001 North Freeway • Fort Worth • Texas • 76106 • www.esc11.net2

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

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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/





House Bill 5 (HB 5)


House Bill 5 - AssessmentEliminated:

15% rule

Cumulative score required for graduation

Use of a Minimum Score towards graduation


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


Transition Rules Affecting 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


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).


House Bill 5 - AssessmentSTAAR 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


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


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 2015-2016Printed versions of the released tests may be ordered online for an additional charge at http://www.TexasAssessment.com/publications.


http://www.texasassessment.com/publications

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.


House Bill 5 - Assessment 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.

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Other Legislation Related to Assessment


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

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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)


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)


Currently Proposed Commissioner 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.


Currently Proposed Commissioner 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.


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.

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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.


Miscellaneous

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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.

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 11th graders or above in October, 2013.


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.

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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.

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STAAR TEST DESIGN


STAAR English I and II Assessments Revised Blueprints

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STAAR PERFORMANCESTANDARDS


Currently Proposed Commissioner 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.


Currently Proposed Commissioner 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.


Currently Proposed Commissioner 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.



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.



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.


STAAR for English Language Learners


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

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Currently Proposed Commissioner 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.


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.


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

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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

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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.

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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

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ACCOMMODATIONS


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

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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


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.


STAAR MODIFIED AND

STAAR ALTERNATE


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.


Currently Proposed Commissioner 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.


Currently Proposed Commissioner Rules Affecting the Texas Assessment Program REDESIGN OF THE STAAR ALTERNATE PROGRAM

TEA will propose in commissioner rule that the adjusted phase-in standard that was used for the STAAR Alternate program in 2011–2012 be applied to the 2013–2014 results.


Upcoming 2013-2014 Student Assessment TETN Dates

TBD Title: Testing Accommodations for SWD

Time: 1:30 PM - 3:30 PMAudience: Open to ESCs and districtsEvent#: 20906

October 8, 2013 Title: ESC LPAC Assessment TOT

Time: 9:00 am – 12:00 pmAudience: Open to ESCs Event#: 20784


Testing Calendar - Updated

2013-2014 Student Assessment Testing Calendar has been updated and is posted on the TEA website

2013–2014 School Year – Revised August 2, 2013

http://www.tea.state.tx.us/student.assessment/calendars/


http://www.tea.state.tx.us/WorkArea/linkit.aspx?LinkIdentifier=id&ItemID=2147507709&libID=2147507700

http://www.tea.state.tx.us/student.assessment/calendars/

Education Service Center Region XI Assessment Contacts

Laura Carson(817) 740-7573 or [email protected]

Peggy DeMoss(817) 740-7529 or [email protected]

Sharon Rutherford(817) 740-7574 or [email protected]


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