Tea Presentation On Elps

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ELL Statewide Assessment Update – Where We Are and Where We’re

Headed

Title III Management InstituteApril 21, 2009

Megan Galicia & Cristina Vazquez – ManagersGloria Zyskowski – Deputy Associate Commissioner

TEA Student Assessment Division

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Topics

General info Performance trends Texas Projection Measure (TPM) Future

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Texas ELL Population

About 800,000 ELLs in Texas public schools per fall 2008 PEIMS

ELLs make up over 15% of total student population

About 90% are Spanish speakers

Over 100 languages represented in Texas schools

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First and Second Year Immigrants

In spring 2008, approximately 677,000 K-12 ELLs were assessed in all domains with TELPAS

In grades 3–12,

• about 20,000 1st year immigrants were reported

• about 40% of 1st year immigrants and 19% of 2nd year immigrants received a composite rating of beginning

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ELLs in U.S. Schools 3 or More Years

with Significantly Limited English

In spring 2008, about 71,000 Texas ELLs in grades 3-12 who had been enrolled in U.S. schools for 3 or more years had composite TELPAS ratings of beginning or intermediate

This was about 1 in 5 students

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LEP for 5 or More Years

In grades 5–12, 148,858 LEP students out of 216,181 who tested in all TELPAS domains were reported in spring 2008 as enrolled in U.S. schools for 5 or more years

This was about 69%, about 7 out of 10

Figures based on students with a composite rating

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2009 TELPAS Reading Online Test

More than 99% of 2-12 ELLs likely to be assessed online

Less than 1% paper versions

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TELPAS Holistic Rating Training Data

Spring 2008 and 2009 online courses• Total of approximately 200,000 online

courses completed

Qualification history • Over 140,000 successful qualifications

from spring 2006 through spring 2009• Success rate typically 90% or above

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Performance on TAKS

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Spring 2008 Grade 5 TAKS MathPrimary SSI Administration

Percent Passing

Students No. %

All – Eng and Spn 327,548 83

All – Eng 322,315 83

Monitored 1 – Eng 11,593 89


Current LEP – Eng 38,411 68

All – Spn 5,233 48

No. = Numbers testedLAT results not included

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Spring 2008 Grade 8 TAKS MathPrimary SSI Administration

Percent Passing

Students No. %

All – Eng 309,854 75




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Spring 2008 Grade 10 TAKS MathPercent Passing

Students No. %

All – Eng 293,041 63




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LAT TAKS Spring 2008 Reading, Math, and Science

Percent Passing

3 4 5 6 7 8 10

R* Eng 48 26 20 22 12 15 16

Spn 64 45 41 49

M Eng 44 40 34 25 21 17 18

Spn 37 31 19 24

S Eng 22 7 10

Spn 17

*ELA for grade 10

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Grade 3 TAKS Reading Primary SSI Administration

Percent Passing

Students 2008 2009*

All – Eng and Spn 87 89

All – Eng 88 89

Monitored 1 – Eng 97 99


Current LEP – Eng 80 83

All – Spn 82 83

*Preliminary results

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Percent PassingStudents 2008 2009*

All – Eng and Spn 83 82

All – Eng 83 83




All – Spn 72 68


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Percent Passing

Students 2008 2009*

All 92 93





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ELL Results Over Time

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Grades 3–12 TELPAS Results: % Students at Each Proficiency

Level

B = Beginning

I = Intermediate

A = Advanced

H = Advanced High

Listening

B I A HSpeaking

B I A HReading

B I A HWriting

B I A H

07-08 7 20 35 38 10 24 35 32 9 17 27 48* 12 32 34 23

06-07 8 24 37 30 12 27 36 25 9 13 36 42 15 36 33 17

05-06 10 27 37 25 15 30 35 21 11 15 38 36 18 39 30 13

*First year of new TELPAS reading tests. Results not comparable to previous years

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TELPAS Composite Ratings 2006-2008

Percent Reaching Advanced High

K-2 3-12

2008 16 45

2007 11 39

2006 10 32

• Composite weights have not changed• TELPAS reading tests changed in 2008 for grades 2-12

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Then and Now:English Reading Proficiency

Percent Rated Beginning

RPTE

2001

TELPAS

Reading

2008

Grade 3 25 12

Grade 10 21 7

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Secondary Reading / ELA Gains 2007 to 2008

Changes in Percent PassingGradeGrade All Students Current LEP

2007 (%) 2008 (%) 2007 (%) 2008 (%)

66 92 91 67 71

77 85 84 41 47

88 89 92 49 58

99 86 84 38 39

1010 84 86 34 45

1111 90 90 33 40

Primary administrationsLAT not included

All LEP

Gr. 8 2009Gr. 8 2009 93 63

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Then and Now:TAKS Reading

Percent of ELLs Passing

Grade Spring 2003 Spring 2009

Grade 5 Eng 32 57

Grade 5 Spn 51 68

Grade 8 25 63

Primary SSI administrationsPanel recommended standards2009 results preliminary

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Then and Now:Grade 4 Writing of ELLs

Percent Passing

1998

TAAS

2008

TAKS

ELLs Tested in English 71 86

ELLs Tested in Spanish 62 90

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Then and Now:LAT Math

Percent Passing

GradeNo.

TestedSpring

2005No.

TestedSpring

2008

Grade 3 Eng 1,402 37% 1,443 44%

Grade 3 Spn 1,216 27% 1,225 37%

Grade 10 2,536 8% 2,989 18%

First LAT math administration was spring 2005

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Texas Projection Measure & Vertical Scale

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What is the Texas Projection Measure (TPM)?

Applied to TAKS, TAKS (Accommodated), and linguistically accommodated versions of TAKS

A multi-level regression-based projection model

Projects student performance separately for each subject in the next high-stakes grade (defined by the Texas legislation as grades 5, 8, and 11)

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Texas Projection Measure (TPM)

TPM uses current TAKS information to predict future TAKS performance

TPM will be reported for TAKS mathematics, reading, science, social studies and writing

TPM projections will be reported for both English and Spanish versions of TAKS

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TPM and ELLs

Projected From

TAKS Language

Projected To

TAKS Language

3rd/4th Grade

English 5th Grade English

3rd/4th Grade

Spanish 5th Grade Spanish

5th/6th Grade

English 8th Grade English

5th/6th Grade

Spanish 8th Grade English

Note: 4th-grade Spanish writing will be projected to 7th-grade English writing

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Example: Grade 6 to 8 Reading

Note: Grade 8 Met Standard=700, Commended Performance=850Grade 6 Met Standard (Rdg)=644, Commended (Rdg)=797

Student Scores

0.4770 0.2511 0.0784

INTERCEPT R_VSS M_VSS CAMP_R PROJECTIONMet

TPM?

1 225.28 640 640 640 741 Y

2 225.28 775 775 775 850 Y

3 225.28 600 600 600 709 Y

4 225.28 650 550 650 724 Y

5 225.28 650 550 550 717 Y

6 225.28 550 550 550 669 N

7 225.28 550 640 550 691 N

8 225.28 550 550 700 681 N

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Reporting Spring 2009

On Confidential Student Report• Indicator (yes/no)

about whether student projected to meet the standard in the next high stakes grade

For reading/ELA and math Grades 3 and 4 to 5 Grades 5, 6, and 7 to 8 Grades 8, 9 and 10 to 11

For science Grade 5 to 8 Grade 8 to 11 (2010) Grade 10 to 11

For social studies Grades 8 and 10 to 11

For writing Grade 4 to 7

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Spring 2009 Reporting Changes

Same basic reporting information as past years• Old scale with 2100 as Met and 2400 as

Commended Performance• Same graph on Confidential Student Report (CSR)

New Information• Vertical scores added near Lexile/Quantile scores• Data file

Vertical scale scores for 2009 Vertical scale scores for 2008 (converted)

• Parent brochure explaining new information• Blackline master

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Reporting Spring 2009

Projection indicator reported for• April administration 5 & 8 mathematics• April administration 3-11 reading and

mathematics• May administration 5 & 8 mathematics retests

Projections used in AYP final for April 3-11 administration except for grades 5 & 8

For grades 5 & 8, any student retesting will have projections recalculated for all subjects

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Current Plans for Reporting Summer 2009

Online reports Student level

• 2008 vertical scale score• 2009 vertical scale score• Projection• Graph summarizing information

Summary reports at the campus, district, region, and statewide levels• Number and percent Met Standard• Number and percent Met TPM• Number and percent Met Standard OR Met TPM

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TPM and AYP

TPM will be used for 2009 AYP and state accountability calculations

Campuses and districts will get AYP and state accountability credit for students currently meeting the standard or projected to meet the standard

Use of TPM can only improve AYP and state accountability ratings

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More Information

March 5, 2009, letter to school districts on TEA website under What’s New

Parent brochure with reports Q and A (blackline master) FAQ Equations and practice spreadsheets Step-by-Step

We are working as fast as we can to get information to

you!

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Future

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Reinforcing Connections

In conjunction with other agency staff,

Student Assessment staff will continue to

reinforce connections between ELPS,

content area TEKS, TELPAS, and TAKS

All teachers of ELLs are required to teach

the ELPS

Understanding these connections is

important

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English language proficiency standards are aligned and linked

with TELPAS

ELPS TELPAS

•TELPAS rater training helps teachers internalize what ELPS proficiency levels (PLDs) mean and why they are important

•Teachers who attend rater training are getting professional development on the PLD portion of the ELPS in addition to assessment training

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TELPAS Results

TELPAS raters learn to directly assess how well students can use English to engage in academic instruction. This is what TELPAS is all about.

This understanding leads to understanding the need for linguistically accommodated instruction.

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Using TELPAS and ELPS to Inform Instruction

AdministratorsTo prepare for upcoming school year, use TELPAS results to evaluate whether students are making appropriate progress in learning English

Teachers

At beginning of school year: Use prior spring’s TELPAS proficiency level ratings as starting place to guide linguistically accommodated instruction

All year: Use ELPS student expectations and PLDs to monitor progress and adjust linguistic accommodations accordingly

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What do ELPS say about linguistically accommodated

instruction?Chapter 74.4 (b)(2):School districts shall provide instruction in the knowledge and skills of the foundation and enrichment curriculum in a manner that is linguistically accommodated (communicated, sequenced, and scaffolded) commensurate with the student's levels of English language proficiency to ensure that the student learns the knowledge and skills in the required curriculum.

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Bottom Line

ELPS support learning of •English as measured on TELPAS

and•academic content as measured on

TAKS (and all its derivatives)

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TELPAS Reading Information Booklet

An updated version was posted on TEA Student Assessment Division website in December

Includes alignment with ELPS Lots of examples of how TELPAS

reading tests measure ELPS student expectations and proficiency levels

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Other Activities Planning for future holistic rating training Determining impact of revised TEKS on state

assessments Developing ELL inclusion policies for end-of-

course testing as it replaces TAKS exit level testing

Developing and phasing in additional end-of-course tests

Evaluating impact of this session’s legislation

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2009-2010 ELL TETNs Fall ELL Assessment Update

September 14, 2009 • 9 am-12 pm

Event #35297 TELPAS Electronic Submission System Update

November 2009 (date TBD)

Annual Training on the LPAC Manual December 16, 2009 • 9 am-12 pm

Event #35301

TELPAS Spring Online Training (review session) January 2010 (date TBD)

TELPAS Electronic Submission System (if substantive changes from this year)

February 2010 (date TBD)

LAT, February 2010 (date TBD)

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TEA Contact Information

Student Assessment Division – ELL Testing

Go to www.tea.state.tx.us/student.assessment and click on ELL Assessment Information

E-mail: [email protected] Phone: (512) 463-9536

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Tea Presentation On Elps