1. Changes Ahead: 2010-2011 Accountability
Lamar CISD
Administrative Retreat

2. Where are we now? Student Achievement Indicators Overview

3. Accountability Systems
State
Commonly known as AEIS
Revised by HB 3
Changes to create a system closer to that of the Federal System
Federal
AYP
No Child Left Behind, 2001
Title Campuses
Fewer Changes
More Accountability Groups

4. Current State Standards
TAKS and TAKS A fully integrated at all grades for all subjects.
Increase in standards:
Academically Acceptable
Math from 55% to 60%
Science from 50% to 55%
Recognized
All subjects raised from 75% to 80%
Meet standard or meet standard via TPM
‘Gate-Up’ using Required Improvement or Exceptions

5. Current State Standards
Completion Rate I (9-12 Grades)
75% Academically Acceptable
85% Recognized
95% Exemplary
Drop-Out Rate (7-8 Grades)
Decreased from 2.0% to 1.8% (7-8 grade dropouts are required, minimum of 5)
Implementation of the Texas Vertical Scale
How it differs from 2100/2400
What does it show?
Effect on Comparable Improvement

6. Accountability Predictions
Factors to Consider
Impact of the Texas Projection Measure
Change in Standards

7. Current Accountability Predictions
Recognized Campuses
Foster
Terry
Briscoe
George
Lamar JH
Navarro
Jackson
Pink
Seguin
Smith
10 Total Campuses

8. Current Accountability Predictions
Exemplary Campuses
Wertheimer
Wessendorff
Austin
Bowie
Campbell
Dickinson
Frost
Hubenak
Huggins
Hutchinson
Long
McNeill
Meyer
Ray
Thomas
Travis
Velasquez
Williams
18 Total Campuses

9. Federal Accountability System
Grades 3-8 and 10 Reading/ELA and Math
Participation – 95%; Graduation 70%; Attendance 90%
2010 Standards
73% Reading/ELA
67% Math
Performance or TPM
Safe Harbor
2011 Standards
80% Reading/ELA
75% Math

10. AYP Cap
District-wide measure of the Number of Students who participated and passed an alternative assessment.
1% for TAKS-Alt
2% for TAKS-M

11. Preparing for 2011 – Changes to State Accountability

12. House Bill 3
Mandated transitions in the state assessment and accountability system
will be the final year for the current accountability system
Some of the changes made during this year will help in the transition into the new system.

13. TAKS Indicators
Beginning in , TAKS-Modified and TAKS-Alt will be added to the indicators used.
End of a long phase in process
More closely reflective of AYP
Will not evaluate LEP or SPED as separate subpopulations for state accountability

14. Ratings – Performance Standards
Acceptable
Reading / ELA, Writing/ Social Studies:
Remain at 70%
Math
Increases to 65% (+5%)
Science
Increases to 60% (+5%)
Recognized
80% for each subject (no change)
Exemplary
90% for each subject (no change)

15. New Requirements for Ratings
Commended Performance Level
All students and economically disadvantaged
15% Recognized
25% Exemplary
Reading/ELA and Math
Can meet by commended + TPM commended
This is being used to project STAAR performance
English Language Learner Progress
All students
Rates student progress based on two years TELPAS data and current year reading TAKS.
60% or higher rating for Recognized or Exemplary
District or campus can also meet Required Improvement or Exception criteria

16. Completion and Drop-Out Rates
Completion Rate I will remain the same:
75% or Required Improvement for Academically Acceptable
85% or Required Improvement for Recognized
95% for Exemplary
7-8 Drop-Out Rate
For all ratings categories it will drop from 1.8% to 1.6%
Underreported Students
A district that underreports more than 150 students, or more than 3% of its prior year students, cannot be Recognized or Exemplary.

17. Gold Performance Acknowledgements
Commended Performance
All student groups must have commended at 30% or higher
College Ready Graduates
Indicator standard will increase from 35% to 40%
The Future of GPAs

18. Reporting
For , only the new PEIMS race/ethnic definitions will be collected and reported.
Ethnicity: Hispanic
Race:
Native American
Asian
Af-American
Pacific Islander
White
In 2011, reports will follow the new data standards. Guidelines and details will follow.

19. Commissioner’s Memo – July 8, 2010

20. Preview of STAAR
Twelve end-of-course tests will replace the TAKS high school end- of-grade tests.
In reading and mathematics, grades 3 through 8, the tests will be linked from grade to grade to the performance expectations for the Algebra II and English III end-of course assessments.
In grades 5 and 8 science, there is increased focus on promoting readiness for high school science through an emphasis on content and skills in grades 3-5 and grades 6-8 that link to the high school science content standards for biology, chemistry, and physics.
In grades 4 and 7 writing, students will be required to respond to two writing tasks (including first person essay and expository) rather than just one task.

21. Preview of STAAR
In most cases, the tests will contain more items to better measure student skills at all performance levels.
Performance standards will be set using empirical data gathered from studies that link performance year-to-year from grades 3 through 8 to high school and college and career readiness.
Empirical studies will inform standard setting through the comparison of student performance on the STAAR assessments with nationally administered assessments.
Performance standards will be reviewed at least once every three years and, if necessary, adjusted to ensure the assessments maintain a high level of rigor.

22. Current Year’s Release of Ratings – July 30
“ When the Texas Education Agency (TEA) releases the accountability information on July 30, 2010, there will be several enhancements to clearly show where TPM was used to elevate a district’s or a campus’s rating. The campus and district listings that show the accountability rating labels will be annotated to indicate the campuses and districts that earned ratings without the use of any additional features (Required Improvement, TPM, or the Exceptions Provision). Also, each campus and district accountability data table will continue to show measure by measure which campuses and districts earned ratings by meeting the absolute standards and specifically where additional features were used to elevate a rating.”

23. The Future use of TPM for Ratings
Proposals the commissioner are considering include:
Suspension of the use of TPM for accountability ratings.
Continued use of TPM in state accountability, but only for districts that elect to use it.
Modifications to the calculation of TPM and/or its use to include additional safeguards, such as:
applying performance floors,
counting each student who fails but is projected to pass as a fraction of a passer,
prohibiting TPM to be used for the same measure in a subsequent year,
limiting the number of measures for which TPM can be used in a given year, and
limiting which rating categories can use it.