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Accountability & Assessment

 
The Medina Valley ISD Accountability office is responsible for ensuring the fidelity of the following test administrations and delivering valid, reliable data to inform instruction that promotes student growth:
  • STAAR 3-8, STAAR EOC & STAAR Alternate 2
  • TELPAS & TELPAS Alternate
  • PSAT/ACT/SAT
  • TSIA2
  • Other National Assessments

STAAR/STAAR ALT 2

The State of Texas Assessments of Academic Readiness (STAAR) program, which was implemented in spring 2012, includes annual assessments for 

  • reading and mathematics, grades 3–8
  • science at grades 5 and 8
  • social studies at grade 8
  • end-of-course (EOC) assessments for English I, English II, Algebra I, Biology and U.S history.

STAAR Alternate 2 assesses students in grades 3–8 and high school who have significant cognitive disabilities and are receiving special education services.

 

LEARN MORE ABOUT STAAR

 

LEARN MORE ABOUT STAAR ALT 2

 

You can access your child’s score by going to https://www.texasassessment.gov/staar.html. The site will prompt you for your child’s first name, portal access code, and date of birth. If you have forgotten your family portal code it can be retrieved at the following website by logging into Skyward

 

TELPAS/TELPAS ALT

  • Texas English Language Proficiency Assessment System
  • Is designed to assess the progress that limited Emergent Bilingual (EB) students make in learning the English language.
  • Is taken in kindergarten through grade 12 in four language domains: listening, speaking, reading, and writing.
  • Assesses students in alignment with the Texas English Language Proficiency Standards (ELPS), which are part of the Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS). The ELPS proficiency level descriptors (PLDs) present the major characteristics of each language proficiency level in each language domain. The PLDs define how well ELLs at the four proficiency levels are able to understand and use English in grade-level academic settings.

Student performance is reported in terms of four English language proficiency levels: beginning, intermediate, advanced, and advanced high.

 

Who takes TELPAS? All limited English proficient students as identified by the bilingual student placement center.

 

What is TELPAS Online? An online reading test based on multiple choice questions used to determine students English reading levels.

 

What is TELPAS used for?

TELPAS results are used to meet state and federal reporting and accountability requirements teachers are trained to use proficiency level descriptors (assessment guidelines) to determine the English language proficiency levels of students based on classroom observations and written student work.

  • Beginning (Little or no English ability)
  • Intermediate (Limited ability, simple language structures, high-frequency vocabulary, routine contexts)
  • Advanced (Grade appropriate, with second language acquisition support)
  • Advanced High (Grade appropriate, with minimal second language acquisition support)

 

ADDITIONAL TELPAS RESOURCES

 

PSAT

The Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test (PSAT/NMSQT) is a program cosponsored by the College Board and National Merit Scholarship Corporation (NMSC). It's a standardized test that provides first hand practice for the SAT®. It also gives students a chance to enter NMSC scholarship programs and gain access to college and career planning tools.

NISD currently offers the PSAT test to all sophomores and juniors as a tool to prepare for the SAT and National Merit Scholarship program. The test is given once a year in October. For questions regarding this test, please contact your high school Counselor.

PSAT will be delivered on a digital platform. For more information about the digital PSAT visit the College Board PSAT/NMSQT webpage.