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    The STAAR progress measure gives you information about how much your child has improved. It is based on a comparison of your child's test score last year with his or her score this year. Your child must have taken a higher grade-level test in 2015 than he or she did in 2014.

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    The STAAR progress measure gives you information about how much your child has improved. It is based on a comparison of your child's test score last year with his or her score this year. Your child must have taken a higher grade-level test in 2015 than he or she did in 2014.

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    The STAAR progress measure gives you information about how much your child has improved. It is based on a comparison of your child's test score last year with his or her score this year. Your child must have taken a higher grade-level test in 2015 than he or she did in 2014.

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    STAAR

    State of Texas
    Assessments of
    Academic Readiness

    A Parents Guide to the STAAR Progress Measure

    WHAT IS THE STAAR PROGRESS MEASURE?

    DID MY CHILD RECEIVE A STAAR PROGRESS MEASURE?

    The STAAR progress measure gives you information about how much your
    child has improved in a subject area. For reading and math, this measure is
    based on a comparison of your childs test score last year with his or her score
    this year. For writing, this measure is based on a comparison of your childs test
    score in 4th grade with his or her test score in 7th grade.

    Your child received a STAAR progress measure in 2015 if he or she met the
    requirements listed below.
    Your child must have taken a higher grade-level test in 2015 than he or she
    did in 2014 (for example, took the English II test in 2015 and the English I test
    in 2014).
    For STAAR reading tests, your child must have taken the test in the same
    language (English or Spanish) in 2014 and 2015.

    WHICH GRADES AND SUBJECTS HAVE A STAAR PROGRESS


    MEASURE?

    For STAAR grade 7 writing, your child must have taken the STAAR grade 4
    English writing test within the last three years.

    In 2015, the STAAR progress measure will be reported for the tests listed
    below:

    For STAAR Algebra I and English II, your child must have taken the test for the
    first time.

    reading in grades 48
    writing in grade 7
    English II
    Algebra I

    This past school year, the state changed what your child is learning in math,
    so the STAAR math test your child took was also changed. Thats why a STAAR
    progress measure is not being reported for math in grades 48.

    WHICH TESTS HAVE A PROGRESS MEASURE?


    Students may take different kinds
    of STAAR tests. The progress
    measure is reported for these
    tests:

    Part of a Confidential Student Report (CSR) for Grade 7 Reading is shown below:

    STAAR
    STAAR Spanish
    STAAR L
    STAAR A

    SPRING 2015

    1640

    YES

    NO

    Met

    The STAAR progress measure is reported on your childs Confidential Student Report
    (CSR). Your child will receive one progress measure for each applicable test. This
    information can also be found in the student data portal at
    http://www.texasassessment.com/students.

    STAAR

    State of Texas
    Assessments of
    Academic Readiness

    A Parents Guide to the STAAR Progress Measure

    HOW ARE THE STAAR PERFORMANCE LEVELS DIFFERENT FROM THE


    STAAR PROGRESS MEASURE?
    The performance levels give you information about how well your child actually
    did on the test this year. For example, if your childs academic performance was
    satisfactory, he or she achieved Level II, but if your childs performance was
    advanced, he or she reached Level III.
    It is possible that your child made progress even if he or she did not pass the test.
    The STAAR progress measure helps you view your childs academic achievement
    in a different way. The progress measure tells you two things: whether your child
    improved from the previous year to this year and if he or she did improve, how
    much improvement there was. This progress can be measured and is reported as
    the STAAR progress measure.

    IS PROGRESS MEASURED THE SAME WAY FOR ALL STUDENTS IN


    TEXAS?
    Progress is measured in the same way for STAAR, STAAR Spanish, STAAR L, and
    STAAR A.
    English language learners (ELLs) who take STAAR tests in English may receive a
    different progress measure. A separate ELL progress measure will be used for some
    ELLs who take the STAAR tests in English. If your child received an ELL progress
    measure, he or she will not receive a STAAR progress measure. For more detail
    about the ELL progress measure, please see the A Parents Guide to the Texas
    English Language Learner (ELL) Progress Measure document located at:
    http://tea.texas.gov/student.assessment/ellprogressmeasure.parentguide.pdf.

    The amount of growth your child made from last year to this year is classified
    in one of these ways: Did Not Meet, Met, or Exceeded. If your childs progress
    measure is Met, he or she has shown expected academic improvement from the
    previous year to 2015. If your childs progress measure is Exceeded, your child has
    shown an amount of academic improvement from the previous year to 2015 that
    was much larger than expected.
    Progress measures are reported within a content area (mathematics, reading,
    writing, and high school English). The progress measure is not available for all
    tests, so it is possible for your child to receive a progress measure for some tests
    but not for others.

    RESOURCES FOR STAAR PROGRESS MEASURES


    STAAR Progress Measure Questions and Answers: http://tea.texas.gov/student.assessment/staarprogressmeasureQandA.pdf
    Calculating STAAR Progress Measures: http://tea.texas.gov/student.assessment/calculatingSTAARprogressmeasures.pdf

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