Assessment in EC4 : TAKS and TExES

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Assessment in EC-4 TAKS and TExES

• CUIN 4397, QUEST 2
• Session 2,
• September 2, 2005

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Lets Assess You!

• Are you a really good teacher?

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How Will We Know?

• Observe you.
• Collect
  student
• work
  products

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How Else Do We Know?

• Test you.
• TExES (Texas Examination of Educator Standards)
• Test your students.
• TAKS (Texas Assessment of Knowledge and Skills)

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What is Assessment?

• Collecting information (data).
• Documenting information (data).
• Analyzing the information (data).
• Summarizing the information (data).
• How do you know the students have learned what
  you have taught?

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What is Curriculum and Instruction?

• Curriculum
• The STUFF you teach.

• Instruction
• HOW you teach it

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Instruction Curriculum Assessment
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TAKS Texas Assessment of Knowledge and Skills

• Statewide assessment program
• Mandated by Senate Bill 103 during the 76th Texas
  Legislative Session
• Developed to better reflect good instructional
  practice and more accurately measure student
  learning.
• Information booklets are on TEA website (see
  class website).

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TEKS and TAKS The Relationship
TEKS Objectives
TAKS Objectives
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More TAKS Information

• Given to 3rd through 5th graders
• Reading 3rd 5th grade
• Writing 4th grade
• Mathematics 3rd 5th grade
• Science 5th
• Given during spring semester
• February 21 Reading and Writing
• April Mathematics and Science

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Measuring the Room A First Grade Lesson

• Videoclip
• What TAKS objectives are addressed?

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TExES Texas Examination of Educator Standards

• Required by the Texas Education Code 21.948
• Successful performance on educator certification
  examinations required for the issuance of a Texas
  Educator certificate.
• Criterion-referenced examination based on TExES
  test framework

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Our Plan to Help You Pass the TExES Tests

• Presentation, Sign-up, and Questions