This Week in Performance Reporting

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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.

2023 Results Driven Accountability (RDA): Determinations and Monitoring (January 10, 2024)

On Wednesday, January 10, 2024, the To the Administrator Addressed (TAA) was released by the Office of Special Populations and Student Supports. Local educational agencies (LEAs) have now been assigned Results Driven Accountability (RDA) program area determinations for monitoring activities and support interventions during the 2023–2024 school year. This notice provides information about the adoption of the RDA system into rule, LEA determinations, and related monitoring activities for LEAs. 

Industry-Based Certifications for CCMR Accountability (January 11, 2024)

On Thursday, January 11, 2024, the To the Administrator Addressed (TAA) was released by the College, Career, and Military Prep (CCMP) Division referencing the Governor’s IBC Committee’s development of and industry-recognized credential list.  While the Texas Workforce Commission’s (TWC) list of industry-recognized credentials may be used to provide additional opportunities to meet the educational and career goals of students, please be advised only the Texas Education Agency’s Industry-Based Certification List for Public School Accountability with aligned certifying entities may be reported through the Texas Student Data System (TSDS) Public Education Information Management System (PEIMS) and count toward the College, Career, and Military Readiness (CCMR) calculations for accountability and for reimbursement requests.

CCMR: Updated Accountability Data Sources Document

The CCMR Accountability Data Sources document has been updated and reposted on the Performance Reporting Resources page. The update to this document includes new 2024 PEIMS links as well as the military enlistment information which is in effect for 2024 Accountability.

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: January 19^th, 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 Correction Window Closing Soon (January 18, 2024)

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 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. This is the final opportunity for districts to make corrections to 2023 Fall Snapshot data which are used for accountability calculations.

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.

We are Hiring!

Open Position: Accountability Data Processing and Reporting (ADPR) Programmer IV

The Accountability Data Processing and Reporting (ADPR) Programmer IV will perform highly complex SAS data processing to support state and federal accountability systems. These systems provide actionable data to stakeholders so that they can the improve academic achievement of all Texas public school students. If you possess a deep knowledge of SAS programming, are just as comfortable working independently as you are collaborating with colleagues and wish to make an impact on education in the state of Texas, apply here, applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis.

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

Early student results for the December 2023 State of Texas Assessments of Academic Readiness (STAAR®) will be available for district testing coordinators in the Centralized Reporting System (CRS) beginning January 10, 2024. An early data file will be posted to the Secure File Center for the district testing coordinator on that same date. Beginning January 12, early student results will be available in CRS for other authorized users, including teachers with rosters. District personnel can use these early results to determine if graduation requirements have been met or if retesting is necessary. These early results are for student-level information not for district or campus accountability reporting. Preliminary assessment reports for accountability will be available on January 19.

Texas Through-Year Assessment Pilot

Opportunity 2 of the Texas Through-year Assessment Pilot (TTAP) opens on January 29, 2024. Testing personnel in participating districts may now create test sessions for Opportunity 2 in the Test Administrator Interface of the Test Delivery System (TDS). For more information on how to create test sessions, refer to the TDS User Guide.

New Research Portal

As previously announced, the new Research Portal for the Texas Assessment Program is available on the Testing Personnel and Educators pages of the Texas Assessment website. The Research Portal provides aggregate assessment data for all Texas students who participated in statewide test administrations and includes a glossary, user guide, and overview video to help users navigate the system. Users can analyze and compare assessment results across multiple administrations and across regions, districts, and campuses. The Research Portal also allows users to generate various reports for each operational assessment program and to analyze the results by different student groups.  

The Texas Education Agency is hosting two Technology Alliance for Statewide Initiatives (TASI) webinars for the launch of the new Research Portal. District and campus administrators can register for the webinars using the registration links below:

• January 17, 2024, 1:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m. (CT)
• January 18, 2024, 9:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. (CT)

Chrome OS Version 119

Due to changes in Google's operating system, Spanish text-to-speech (TTS) functionality is currently unavailable within the Secure Browser for Chromebooks running Chrome OS version 119. For STAAR Interim Assessments and the Texas Formative Assessment Resource (TFAR), students requiring Spanish TTS on Chrome OS version 119 may use the device's standard web browser. For the February 2024 Stand-Alone Field Test, students taking the Spanish field test with TTS must either use Chrome OS version 118 or test on another device. CAI has reached out to Google, and additional information regarding support for Spanish TTS will be provided once it becomes available.