teks revisions and the end of course exams
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TEKS Revisions and the End of Course Exams
Tom Wursttwurst@esc4.net
March 25, 2010
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WHAT’S IN THE FUTURE FORSOCIAL STUDIES?
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•Revision of the TEKS (Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills)
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Social Studies Timeline• SBOE discussion, November 2009• Public hearing, first reading and filing, January
2010; tabled• Continue first reading and filing, March 2010 • Proposed revised TEKS posted for official public
comment, April 16, 2010 for 30 days on Texas Register
• Public hearing, second reading and adoption, May 2010
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• Professional development for TEKS, Spring/Summer 2011 and ongoing
• Implementation of revised social studies TEKS, Fall 2011
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Social Studies Timeline
• Spring 2010 - Call for Proclamation 2013• Summer 2012 - instructional materials review
committees convene to review publisher submissions
• Fall 2012 – SBOE adoption of instructional materials
• Proclamation 2013 - instructional materials in schools, Fall 2013
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Social Studies Timeline
• Prior to 2012, TEA hopes to release a small set of EOC assessment items
• Must be linked to college readiness College readiness will be embedded in the new grade 8
social studies curriculum
• Will have “fewer, clearer, deeper” focus• Begins in 2011–2012
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Changes to the Assessment Program—House Bill 3
• Convene educator advisory committees in early 2010
• Review curriculum to determine what should be eligible for assessment
• Review assessed curriculum to determine what should be the focus of the assessment
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Changes to the Assessment Program—House Bill 3
“Fewer, Clearer, Deeper”
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TEKS FOR SPECIFIC GRADE OR COURSE
NOT ASSESSED
ASSESSEDACROSS YEARS
FOCUS OF ASSESSMENT
• Vertically align assessments from college and career readiness concepts in EOC assessments to new middle school assessments and to new elementary assessments
• Standards for EOC assessments planned for fall 2011
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Changes to the Assessment Program—House Bill 3
• Freshman class of 2011–2012 is first group to have EOC assessments as a graduation requirement
• That is the current 7th graders
• All 12 EOC assessments will be available in 2011–2012
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EOC Assessments
Current legislation requires the phase-out ofhigh school TAKS and replaces it with EOCassessments in
• English I, English II, English III• Algebra I, Geometry, Algebra II• U.S. History, World History, World Geography• Biology, Chemistry, Physics
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EOC Assessments
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EOC Assessments
2009–2010 2010–2011 2011–2012 2012–2013 2013–2014 2014–2015
GR 9 TAKS TAKS EOC EOC EOC EOCGR 10 TAKS TAKS TAKS EOC EOC EOCGR 11 TAKS TAKS TAKS TAKS EOC EOCGR 12 TAKS* TAKS* TAKS* TAKS* TAKS* EOC or
TAKS*
Plan for phase-out HS TAKS and phase-in EOC assessments
*Out-of-school testers and 12th grade re-testers
• Follows the Test Development Process posted on the TEA student assessment website
• Involves educator committees such as focus groups, advisory committees, item reviews, and data reviews
• Involves the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board
• Includes higher-education faculty
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EOC Assessments
• Educator involvement in test development is critical to process
• Highly qualified educators are needed to serve on educator committees, especially at the high school level
• The Educator Recommendation Form can be found at http://ritter.tea.state.tx.us/student.assessment/develop/recform.pdf
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EOC Assessments
• Aligned to TEKS• Untimed• Multiple-choice questions• After first year, field-test questions will be
embedded in operational test
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Social Studies EOC AssessmentsSimilarities between TAKS and EOC
Current coverage of Grade 11 U.S. History TEKS• TAKS grade 10 covers 0% of U.S. History Since
1877 TEKS• TAKS exit level covers about 62% of U. S.
History TEKS• U.S. History EOC assessment covers 100% of
U.S. History TEKS
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Social Studies EOC AssessmentsDifferences between TAKS and EOC
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Social Studies EOC Assessments
Exit Social Studies TAKS• 5 objectives• 55 items• measures SE’s from U.S. history, world history and world geography
U.S. History End of Course• 6 objectives• 68 items• measures all 92 U.S. history SE’s
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Social Studies EOC AssessmentsObjectives Number of Items
Objective 1: Issues and Events 20
Objective 2: Geography 7
Objective 3: Economics and Technology 15
Objective 4: Government and Citizenship 8
Objective 5: Culture 8
Objective 6: Social Studies Skills 10
Total number of items 68
• Total number of questions—68
• Mean raw score—36
• Mean percent correct—53%
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2009 U.S. History Results
World Geography EOCCurrent coverage of world geography TEKS
TAKS grade 10 covers about 17% of World Geography TEKS
TAKS exit level covers about 14% of World Geography TEKS
World Geography EOC assessment covers 98% of World Geography TEKS
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World Geography EOC Assessment
Year 1: Planning activities
(2007)
Year 2: Item Development
(2008)
Year 3: Field testing (2009)
Year 4: Live testing (2010)
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World Geography BlueprintObjectives Number of Items
Objective 1: Issues and Events 6
Objective 2: Geography 20
Objective 3: Economics and Technology 12
Objective 4: Government and Citizenship8
Objective 5: Culture12
Objective 6: Social Studies Skills10
Total number of items 68
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World Geography EOC Assessment
TAKS5 objectives
50 or 55 questionsincludes grade 8, worldgeography, and world
history
EOC6 objectives68 questions
world geography only
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World Geography EOC Assessment• 2009 Field Test was administered to a total
of 51,568 students
• 27,046 of testers took online form
• 24,522 of testers took paper form
• Two forms – online and paper – for purposes of a comparability study
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World Geography EOC Assessment• 2010 World Geography EOC Assessment is part of
TEA’s “Mandatory Sampling”• May 10-28, 2010 is the testing window• Districts selected to participate will administer online
only• Districts not selected to participate may volunteer• Districts that volunteer may select online or paper
administrations of the World Geography EOC Assessment
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Current coverage of World History TEKS
• TAKS grade 10 covers about 10% of WH TEKS
• TAKS exit level covers about 7% of WH TEKS
• World History EOC assessment covers about 99% of WH TEKS
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Social Studies EOC Assessments
How will EOC compare to TAKS?
TAKS• 5 objectives• 50 or 55 questions• includes grade 8, world
geography, and world history
END-OF-COURSE•6 objectives•68 questions•world history only
World History EOC Assessment
27
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World History EOC Assessment
•Item review process begins •(Summer/Fall 2010)
•Field test•(Spring 2011)
•Re-evaluation and posting of final blueprint•(Summer/Fall 2011)
•First live administration•(Spring 2012)
What’s next?
• In order to graduate, a student must achieve a cumulative score that is at least equal to the product of the number of EOC assessments taken in that content area and a scale score that indicates satisfactory performance
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EOC Assessments
• A student must achieve a minimum score, as determined by the commissioner, for the score to count towards the student’s cumulative score
• A student’s cumulative score is determined using the student’s highest score on each EOC assessment
• The 0–100 scale with references to scores of 60 and 70 has been deleted from the law
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EOC Assessments
• If a student does not achieve the minimum score on an EOC assessment, the student shall retake the assessment
• A student’s score on an EOC assessment will be worth 15% of the student’s final grade for that course
• A school district is not required to use the student’s score on subsequent administrations to determine the student’s final grade for that course
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EOC Assessments
• Untimed, but designed to be about 2 hours
• Not grade specific
• Not required to be part of student’s grade
• Not included in state or federal accountability
• No retests available until 2011–2012
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Current EOC Assessments
• Revised TEKS most likely will be adopted in March 2010
• Scheduled to be implemented in the 2011–2012 school year
• Spring 2012 (and beyond) assessments will be aligned to TEKS in place in the state for that school year
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Effects of Social Studies TEKS Revisions on Assessments
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