Student Answer Documents: Accuracy & Accountability

1. Student Answer Documents: Accuracy & Accountability

3. And so it begins … • Last year’s data rolls forward. • New students are entered in the district’s system. • Data verification is key!

4. October Snapshot • Last Friday in October is the PEIMS Snapshot Date – October 30, 2009 • Updates and reviews and edits are completed earlier • The audit documents are in the file cabinet, rather than the computer • This is the “Fall Submission”

5. And from there … TEA • Answer documents should be as accurate as test date data. • What was true in October may no longer be accurate. • Answer document data is used to calculate the Accountability and AYP reports. NOT PEIMS!

6. Testing Cycle Begins… • The Fall Submission provides the data submitted to pre-code the TAKS answer documents • No edits • Data on answer documents is based on what the district submits to Pearson in the data file

7. Verifying Coding for Accuracy • Everything is important since it affects something in one of the three accountability systems • It is imperative that we verify the coding on student answer documents • What sources do we use to verify coding?

8. District – Campus – District Process

9. District – Campus – District Process

10. Testing … • Campus/District Testing Coordinators have the responsibility to ensure the review and verification of the accuracy of data on pre-coded labels. These labels are used for the answer documents. • How do you verify? Against what? • What process is in place in your district?

11. Right Test – Right Student? • What test(s) will be administered? • How do campus testing coordinators and test administrators verify that the student receives the right test? • For special education, ARD documentation dictates this.

12. Wrong Information on the Answer Document? How do you convey steps for ‘fixing’ a label at the district level?…campus level? How do you ensure that students do not ‘bubble’ anything on the answer documents that will override the label?

13. What Coding Affects Accountability? • State Accountability • Ethnicity • Economically Disadvantaged • Score Code & Test Taken Information • AYP • Ethnicity • Economically Disadvantaged • LEP (Current, M1, and M2) • Special Education • Score Code

14. What are the AYP Measures next year? Math ????? 67 Reading/Language Arts????? 73

15. AYP: Target Standards

16. AYP: The BasicsIndicators used to determine AYP

17. AYP Performance Standards

18. What Coding Affects Accountability? • PBMAS • Ethnicity • Economically Disadvantaged • LEP • Bilingual • ESL • Special Education • Title I • CATE

19. Data Validation Monitoring (DVM) • Data validation responsibilities include review and follow-up with districts or campuses that have been identified for potential data inaccuracies, anomalies, or irregularities.  • Excessive Coding of Absent (content areas and TELPAS Reading) • Excessive Coding of “Other” (content areas and TELPAS Reading) • Excessive Discrepancy PEIMS/TAKS CTE Status • DVM includes stages 1-3 with a variety of activities that LEAs are to conduct with each stage (i.e., FDA,CIP templates) all with the intent of correcting data errors. • Documentation is key.

20. Thank You!