Accountability 101

State Accountability Federal Accountability

# Students Met Standard# Students Tested

If the Standard is not met: • Apply Required Improvement• Recalculate Using TPM• Use Exceptions

Note: Can use any combinationof the three provisions, but can only use one

provisions for a single indicator.

# Students Met Standard# Students Tested

If the Standard is not met: • Calculate Performance

Improvement/Safe Harbor– Compare Met Standard Rate for 2009 and

2010 (without TPM)– A 10% Reduction of Failures and Meeting

the Other Measure for the Group or showing any improvement.

• Recalculate Using TPM

Accountability Calculations

All Students

African American

Hispanic White Economically Disadvantaged

Reading/ELA x x x x x

Mathematics x x x x x

Writing x x x x x

Science x x x x x

Social Studies x x x x x

Completion Rate x x x x x

Dropout Rate x x x x x

State Potential Measures - 35

Reviewing and analyzing a State Data Table. [Review a sample data table with the group.]

All Students

African American

Hispanic White Eco Dis. Special Ed

LEP

Reading/ELA Performance

x x x x x x x

Reading/ELA Participation

x x x x x x x

Mathematics Performance

x x x x x x x

Mathematics Participation

x x x x x x x

Graduation/Attendance

x ! ! ! ! ! !

AYP Potential Measures - 29

! = Used for other measure

Reviewing and analyzing an AYP Data Table. [Review a sample data table with the group.]

Additional Featuresfor TAKS Measures

*Only one feature can be used per measure; however, different features can be used for different measures.**Without TPM

State* AYP• Required Improvement (RI)**• Texas Projection Measure (TPM)• Exceptions Provision (EP)

• Performance Improvement/ Safe Harbor **

• Texas Projection Measure (TPM)

Performance Indicators• Students must have been enrolled the full

academic year: snapshot and test date. • The scores are summed across grades by

subject.

Where does it all come from?

Where does it all come from?

Test All Students

Uniform AssessmentReadingMathematics

Review Specific Student Groups

Review Other Areas

Include SWD

Cap on Alternate Assessments

Additional Accountability: State Performance Plan Ratings

Uniform Assessment System: TAKSTAKS (Accommodated)TAKS-ModifiedTAKS-Alternate

All TEKS-Based

Differences in Standards

AEIS Data• Districts and campuses receive AEIS System Reports

in November of each year for the prior year’s results.• The Accountability Rating System (State

Accountability) reviews a subset of AEIS indicators with specific performance standards.

• School Report Cards, (available on the web through the AEIS site, by year starting with 1997-98) are sent out to parents by their children's schools. These show a subset of the performance, staff, and financial measures in the AEIS reports.

Accountability Rating System (State)• How does this system work?

– Rating Labels• Exemplary• Recognized• Academically Acceptable• Academically Unacceptable

– 35 Potential Measures• Minimum Size Criteria

– Other…See Mini-Chart

– Information is reported through ‘Data Tables’…. District & Campus

Performance Standard Continuum• Beyond the All Students, does the indicator’s group

size meet minimum size criteria? • If yes, was the standard met? • If no, was required improvement met? • If no, was the standard met with TPM applied?• If no, can an ‘Exception’ be applied?

– Are there enough exceptions to move the campus to AA?– Was the exception used for the same measure the prior

year? If so, it cannot be used again the subsequent year.

• Students must have been enrolled the ‘full academic year’ –snapshot date (last Friday in October) & test date to be included in accountability measures. This is called the accountability sub-set.

Performance Standard Continuum

Required Improvement (State)• Required Improvement Calculations are applied if the standard is not met. • RI = The amount of gain required to reach the standard in two years. • Can be used to move from Unacceptable to Acceptable or Acceptable to Recognized.• The gain from 2009 must allow the indicator to reach the standard if the gain were

repeated the next year.• There is no floor when moving to Acceptable. The rating must be within 5 points to

move to Recognized.• Required Improvement is always reviewed first. If it cannot increase the indicator

rating, TPM is applied, followed by Exceptions, if applicable.

Texas Projection Measure (TPM)• Identifies if student is projected to pass next high stakes test at 5th, 8th or 11th

grade. • Only available for students in grades 3-10 who:

• Test on TAKS, TAKS-Acc, TAKS-LAT• Have scored results this year for both Reading and Math• Test in the same language

• TPM is not available for:• 7th Grade Writing • 8th Grade Science (2009 only, available in 2010)• All 11th Grade Subjects

• TPM can increase the campus rating to Acceptable, Recognized or Exemplary.• If applying TPM does not raise the indicator rating, Exceptions are reviewed,

if applicable.

ExceptionsAcademically Acceptable AND Recognized Exemplary

Performance Floor: Academically Acceptable – 5 points for all subjects.

Recognized – The measure must be no more than 5 percentage points below the Recognized standard for all subjects.

Performance Floor: The measure must be no more than 5 percentage points below the Exemplary standard for all subjects

# of measures # of exceptions # of measures # of exceptions

1-4 0 1-9 05-8 1 ≥ 10 1

9-11 212-15 3≥ 16 4

Exceptions may not be used for the same indicator two consecutive years.

‘Passing & Preparedness’

Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP)

• Federal System which incorporates our state assessments, plus graduation, attendance, and participation.

AYP Standards & Comparison to State Standards Across Years

2007-2008 2008-2009 2009-2010 2010-11

2011-12

2012-13

2013-14

State AYP State AYP State AYP AYP AYP AYP AYPReading/ELA

70 60 70 67 70 7373 80 87 93 100

Mathematics 50 50 55 5858 60 67 75 83 92 100

Calculations

Minimum Size Criteria

Other AYP Information• TAKS (Accommodated) is combined with the TAKS results• TAKS-M is used for performance (with a 2% cap)• TAKS-Alt is used for performance (with a 1% cap)