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Texas Student Data System
Early Childhood Data System
April 1-3, 2014
Texas Education Agency
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TSDS
Education
Data
Warehouse
Vision
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The TEA data management environment is currently
focused on meeting state and federal compliance
reporting requirements.
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An LEA facing data warehouse will make near real time,
actionable data available to educators and relevant
stakeholders.
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State and federal reporting needs can be met more
transparently, using data that LEAs will provide for the
Education Data Warehouse (EDW).
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What
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Early Childhood Data System is the collection of both PK
and KG student data, which includes both student
demographic and assessment data.
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ECDS is formerly known as the Kindergarten Readiness
System (KRS)
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KRS data was previously collected using a now obsolete
application called OZ Systems
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ECDS is the first of several state and federal reporting
collections that will be integrated into TSDS.
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To fulfill requirements mandated by the Texas
Legislature in the following Texas Education Codes:
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TEC 28.006 (c) – (Kindergarten)
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Sec. 29.1532 – (Pre-kindergarten)
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Sec 29.161 – (Reading Diagnosis)
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To certify the effectiveness of child care programs in
preparing children for kindergarten
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Public & Private Pre-Kindergarten Programs
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Head Start and Early Head Start Programs
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Non-Profit or For-Profit Entities Government
Subsidized Child Care Programs
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Faith-Based Government Subsidized Child Care
Programs
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Other Government Subsidized Child Care Programs
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Purpose
of ECDS
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To inform parents, school administrators, the public,
statewide stakeholders, the early childhood education
community, and policy makers about the quality of early
childhood education and direct resources in an informed
manner.
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ECDS
Collection
Timeline
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Phase 1
 Kindergarten
 2013-2014
School Year
 Opens
June 1, 2014
 Closes
July 31, 2014
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Collection
Timeline
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Phase 2
 Pre-Kindergarten
 School
Years
 2012-2013
 2013-2014
 Opens
August 1, 2014
 Closes
October 31, 2014
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Kindergarten ECDS Data (Mandatory)
Collection of student demographics and assessments
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LEAs who administer the Commissioner’s List of English
Reading Instruments
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Exemption
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LEAs administering an assessment that is not compatible with
ECDS as described in the ‘To The Administrator Addressed’
letter (see link below) will notify the TEA program area of the
type of assessment used, and the LEA will be responsible for
retaining the data should TEA decide to collect at a later date.
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‘To the Administrator Addressed’ letter link:
http://www.tea.state.tx.us/index4.aspx?id=25769807829
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Pre-Kindergarten ECDS Data (Optional)
Collection of student demographics
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Public & Private Pre-Kindergarten Programs
Commissioner’s List of English Reading
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Instruments
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Texas Primary Reading Inventory (TPRI)
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ISIP
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DIBELS-6th edition
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IDEL
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DIBELS Next
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AIMSweb (TEL and MIDE)
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Children’s Progress Academic Assessment (CPAA)
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Diagnostic Assessments of Reading, 2nd Edition (DAR-2)
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Fox in a Box
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EasyCBM
Commissioner’s List of English Reading
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Instruments (cont.)
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ISIP Espanol Assessment
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ISIP Early Reading 4
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Measures of Academic Progress (MAP)
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STAR Early Literacy
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STAR Reading Enterprise
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Vital Indicators of Progress (VIP)
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Phonemic Awareness & Phonics Inventory (PAPI-E)
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Phonological Awareness Literacy Screening (PALS)
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Gates-MacGinitie Reading Tests
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Woodstock Johnson Diagnostic Reading Battery (WJ III DRB)
Commissioner’s List of Spanish Reading
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Instruments
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AIMSweb Spanish
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El Inventario de Lectura en Espanol de Tejax (TEJAS LEE)
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Istation’s Indicators of Progress-Spanish (ISIP Espanol)
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Phonemic Awareness & Phonics Inventory - Spanish (PAPI-S)
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Test of Phonological Awareness in Spanish (TPAS)
Reporting ECDS Data –
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Interim Solution
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Interim Solution
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Data for both Pre-K and Kindergarten will be
documented by LEAs using MS Excel templates
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An XML converter will be provided by TEA for LEAs to
convert data from MS Excel to the TEDS Compliant
Interchange XML files.
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XML files will be loaded either manually in the eDM or
by using the Data Transfer Utility (DTU).
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These templates will be supplied until all LEAs are
loading data to the EDW
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Reporting
Kindergarten
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Kindergarten
 Data
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submission is mandatory
data elements collected
 Data
will be collected for school year
 2013-2014
Data
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Reporting
Pre-Kindergarten
Data
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Pre-Kindergarten
 Data
submission is optional for all PK school
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data elements collected
 Data
will be collected for school years
 2012-2013
 2013-2014
Reporting ECDS Data –
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Permanent Solution
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Permanent Solution
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The TSDS Collection will be used by LEAs for
required state and federal reporting and the optional
studentGPS™ Dashboards
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ECDS will be the first state data collection reported
using the TSDS collection
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Early Adopters of TSDS who report ECDS data will
use the TSDS Collection for reporting
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ECDS
Data
Standards
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The ECDS Data Standards will be part of the
Texas Education Data Standards (TEDS)
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New Section 10: Core Collections
Available April 7th on TEDS website
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ECDS
Support
Model
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TSDS Incident Management System (TIMS) will
be the support model for ECDS
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TIMS uses the following support levels:
 Level
1 – LEA
 Level
2 – ESC
 Level
3 – TEA Business
 Level
4 – TEA Technical
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