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ERIC Number: ED624271
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 2022-Dec
Pages: 16
Abstractor: As Provided
ISBN: N/A
ISSN: N/A
EISSN: N/A
Indicators of School Performance in Texas. REL 2023-146
Li, Yibing; Garland, Marshall; Kilborn, Mitchell
Regional Educational Laboratory Southwest
The School Improvement Division of the Texas Education Agency (TEA) identifies, monitors, and supports low-performing schools. To identify low-performing schools, TEA assigns annual academic accountability ratings to its districts and schools, but these ratings are provided only once per year and are vulnerable to disruptions in the assessment system. Schools with low accountability ratings are considered low performing. TEA partnered with Regional Educational Laboratory Southwest to explore whether information regularly collected by districts and schools could be the basis for creating indicators to monitor low-performing schools. Using school-level data from the two school years preceding the pandemic (2017/18 and 2018/19), this study examined which student behaviors (such as attendance, coursetaking, and discipline) and teacher factors (such as years of experience and turnover) were associated with the performance of Texas schools on accountability measures that use assessment data. The study found that several student behaviors and teacher factors were associated with the likelihood of schools meeting accountability expectations across school levels and could be used to create indicators that identify whether a school was likely to meet accountability expectations. For elementary schools, these indicators included student attendance and chronic absenteeism; for middle schools, these indicators included student attendance, chronic absenteeism, and discipline; and for high schools, these indicators included student coursetaking and teacher turnover. However, many indicators that identified schools as likely to meet accountability expectations in 2017/18 and 2018/19 did not identify these schools as likely to meet accountability expectations in 2019/20, potentially due to structural changes during the pandemic (such as changes in how attendance was reported). TEA staff can consider using these indicators to identify schools that are not likely to meet accountability expectations and may need extra support during a typical school year. The intent of the indicators is not to replace accountability ratings. Instead, they provide information for TEA staff to identify schools needing supports, monitor these schools throughout the school year, and help determine what supports to provide. [For the appendixes, see ED624272.]
Regional Educational Laboratory Southwest. Available from: Institute of Education Sciences. 550 12th Street SW, Washington, DC 20202. Tel: 202-245-6940; Web site: http://ies.ed.gov/ncee/edlabs/regions/southwest/index.asp
Publication Type: Reports - Research
Education Level: Elementary Education; Junior High Schools; Middle Schools; Secondary Education; High Schools
Audience: N/A
Language: English
Sponsor: N/A
Authoring Institution: Regional Educational Laboratory Southwest (ED/IES); National Center for Education Evaluation and Regional Assistance (NCEE) (ED/IES); American Institutes for Research (AIR)
Identifiers - Location: Texas
IES Funded: Yes
Grant or Contract Numbers: 91990018C002