Beginning 2010-11, Texas school districts will need to report classroom level data for teachers and students in grades 1st to 12th. What does this mean; the Texas Education Agency will be able to link teacher/student performance to the classroom level. Districts will be required to report all the academic courses a teacher taught during the year. In addition, every academic course a student takes during the year including the student pass/fail information for each course.
How do you think about the use of this data being collected?
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- OlgaGarcia
- Hi, I'm the Coordinator for PEIMS/Application Support for the Harlingen School District. Our department maintains and supports the district's administrative computer system.
That is very interesting and am sure it will be a great thing especially for accountability right? What do you think about that since you are more involved on that side of things whereas I am not so educated on PEIMS data?
ReplyDeleteIs this the same system I have heard that will allow teachers to track their kids education past and future online easily even if they come from a different district within Texas?
I like the idea of the data tying back to teachers. Many times we’ve been asked to for data by teacher and it takes some doing to get everything to link back accurately. Hopefully this will help facilitate those requests and analysis.
ReplyDeleteI’m sorry about the fact that you’ll have more PEIMS error to clear out before submitting the file to the state though.
Kari, this will definitely help with accountability.
ReplyDeleteRegarding your other question, you may be talking about the Texas Student Data System (TSDS). The state is still developing this system. I understand educators will be able to view student data regardless of where the student has been in Texas. Here is a link for information: http://www.texasstudentdatasystem.org/
From the outside perspective, I think this is great. I think this will help administrators and teachers determine what areas they may need additional training, resources or support in. It may provide information on student learning trends - common areas of strengths and deficiencies. Having such information may allow designing of more efficient lesson plans -maybe altogether eliminate some unnecessary learning objectives and create more relevant one. I am excited to learn how this will impact our education system.
ReplyDeleteI think this is the door we have all being waiting for to open. Maybe now that this data is being collected it will raise teacher concerns about their own teaching habits and hopefully make changes to their curriculum that will meet the need not only of the state but our number 1 concern, our students. If teachers know that they are going to be closely monitored "per-say", they will teach better. Again, that's just my opinion of course.
ReplyDeleteYes, it will raise teachers concerns since the state can easily see the direct link of the results. Traditionally, the campus administrators could evaluate teacher's results and now many others will have electronic data linking the student to the teachers.
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