This Week in Performance Reporting

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Due to the upcoming holidays, this Performance Reporting Weekly Bulletin provides an overview of events through January 5^th. The next Performance Reporting Weekly Bulletin will come your way on Friday, January 5^th. Have a Happy New Year!

What’s New in Performance Reporting

A–F Accountability

For questions or assistance regarding the information in this section, call the Performance Reporting Division at 512-463-9704 or email performance.reporting@tea.texas.gov. 

Now Available: 2023 TPRS and TAPR Release (December 15, 2023)

The 2023 Texas Performance Reporting System (TPRS) and the 2023 Texas Academic Performance Reports (TAPR) were released today on their respective Texas Education Agency (TEA) webpages. In addition, the TAPR report is available to districts within the TEAL accountability application. The TPRS integrates state and federal reporting requirements into a single reporting system that can be viewed at the campus, district, region, and state level. The TAPR pulls together a wide range of information on the performance of students in each school and district in Texas every year. These reports will be published without scale scores, A–F ratings, Distinction Designations, or Special Education Determination Status at this time.

This release does not include the Campus or District 2023 Accountability Reports. The issuance of the A–F ratings under 2023 rule is pending and subject to change.

Upcoming: 2023 Federal Report Card (December 19, 2023)

The Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA), as amended by Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), requires each State education agency to prepare and publish an annual report card. The Federal Report Card for Texas Public Schools is a web-based system that generates the required federal report cards at the state, district, and campus levels for easy dissemination by school districts. Every district that receives Title I, Part A funding is responsible for distributing the reports to each of its campuses, the parents of all enrolled students, and the general public. These reports will be published on the TEA Federal Report Cards page on Tuesday, December 19, 2023.

Upcoming: Preliminary Accelerated Testing List Coming Soon (December)

The Preliminary 2024 Accelerated Testers Student Listing will be released within TEAL Accountability in December. Students included on the listing were reported as enrolled in grade 11 on the 2022-23 PEIMS attendance files and have either 1) taken an EOC assessment prior to enrolling in grade 9 or 2) earned course credit for an advanced course in Spring or Summer 2020 and were granted a COVID testing waiver. Students are attributed to the district and campus at which they were reported in attendance for the final six weeks of SY 2022-23. The Preliminary 2024 Accelerated Testers Student Listings reflect which subject area the student is considered accelerated and if the student has a corresponding SAT or ACT on record.

Upcoming 2023 Performance-Based Monitoring (PBM) Data Validation Release Dates

District and student-level data validation reports will be posted to TEAL Accountability, Performance-Based Monitoring, on the following date:  

Student Assessment Data Validation: Mid–January 2024

For more information on each indicator, please see the Texas Education Agency’s Data Validation Manuals webpage. If you have further questions, please email pbm@tea.texas.gov or call this team at (512) 463-9704.

Fall 2023 PEIMS Submission Reminders  

The PEIMS Fall Snapshot is the source of several important pieces of data used for accountability calculations. Data collected during the Fall Submission is used to identify student characteristics to determine student groups, grade span for a campus, graduation type code, and a student’s continuously or non-continuously enrolled status. The CCMR Accountability Data Sources (texas.gov) provides additional information about the specific PEIMS elements and values used to identify students who have demonstrated college and/or career readiness through dual credit, industry certification, an associate degree, college prep courses, and special education graduates with an advanced graduation plan.

The data entered for the 2023-2024 school year Fall Submission will impact campus and district 2025 accountability for the lagging indicators in the year following a student’s graduation. The window for district submission, and correction if needed, of this data occurs during this school year.

Upcoming Fall 2023 PEIMS Submission Date:

January 18, 2024– Fall Resubmission (corrected submission) due. 

For further details on upcoming PEIMS submission dates please see TWEDS 2023-24 PEIMS Data Submission Timelines. As a reminder, districts are responsible for the accurate submission and timely verification of all TSDS PEIMS data submissions and data submitted to the Working Collection are not used in accountability calculations.

Summer 2023 CCMR PEIMS Review

For the 2022-23 school year, the finalized data for the Summer and Extended Year submissions became available on September 21, 2023, and October 19, 2023. The CCMR accountability data submitted in these collections includes elements related to dual credit, industry certifications, associate degrees, and college prep courses. Although the corrections windows for these collections have closed, districts are encouraged to review this data. Please contact the Performance Reporting division at Performance.Reporting@tea.texas.gov for any assistance regarding the review of these final data for 2024 accountability (Class of 2023), in advance of the CCMR Verifier release later in 2024.

FAQs

Are the Accelerated Tester requirements waived for students in grade 12 this school year (SY 2023-24) who received the 2020 COVID waiver on their grade 8 EOC?

No, students in grade 12 during SY 2023-24 who received course credit during Spring/and or Summer 2020 and received the EOC COVID waiver (e.g., grade 8 students who took Algebra I in 2020) are required to take the corresponding subject area SAT or ACT while in high school.

How is the Texas Education Agency (TEA) identifying these students and will they be included on the Accelerated Tester list?

For students that completed an EOC test prior to SY 2019-20, TEA used relevant Consolidated Accountability Files (CAF) to identify accelerated testers. For students that were granted COVID waivers during SY 2019-20, TEA has used course completion data to determine which students are accelerated testers. Students that earned course credit in an advanced course during Spring or Summer 2020 will be included on the Preliminary Accelerated Tester list, which will be released in December.

Assessment Scoring and Reporting

Contact Texas Testing Support at 833-601-8821, TexasTestingSupport@cambiumassessment.com, or TexasAssessment.gov via live chat. Important Dates are available in the Calendar of Events.

December 2023 STAAR Administration

District testing personnel must ensure all student information, student responses, and score codes are complete for the December STAAR administration by 11:59 p.m. (CT) on December 15, 2023. This includes:

• updating score codes in the Test Information Distribution Engine (TIDE),
• submitting student responses for paper administrations in the Data Entry Interface (DEI), and
• verifying student information in TIDE.

Refer to the Complete Administrations section in the District and Campus Coordinator Resources for more detailed information. District testing personnel should return State of Texas Assessments of Academic Readiness (STAAR®) secure paper test materials as soon as paper testing is complete, and all information is entered in DEI. All secure paper test materials must be shipped back to Pearson for reconciliation by December 22, 2023.

February 2024 Stand-Alone Field Test

Final lists of campus assignments for each local educational agency (LEA) selected to participate in the Stand-Alone Field Test was posted in the TIDE Secure File Center on December 13, 2023.