NEW DISCOVERIES FROM TAKS 2003

1
NEW DISCOVERIES FROM TAKS 2003

• CFBISD

2
Student Competencies for Success on TAKS

• Students must
• place content knowledge and factual information
  into long-term memory
• understand content deeply enough to enable them
  to make connections, draw inferences, and form
  conclusions
• exhibit persistence and endurance

3
Competencies, continued

• operate at high levels on Blooms Taxonomy,
  especially synthesis and evaluation
• and read and comprehend formal language,
  including formal syntax, technical vocabulary and
  elaborated language.

4
Truths weve learned

• Everything listed as testable will be tested
  within 3 years. Lesson Dont ignore the TEKS
  that werent tested.

5
What are the implications for teachers?

• Give students opportunities to draw
  conclusions and make inferences
• Format tests and test questions similarly
  to TAKS
• Use primary and secondary sources
• Give students practice on multiple charts,
  graphs, maps
• Expose students to point of view

6
(No Transcript)
7
Important Note

• 11th Grade CFB - 2003
• 96 passed
• 17 Commended
• 4 failed
• What are we doing specifically to bring this to 0

8
(No Transcript)
9
GRADE 10 ITEM ANALYSIS
ANALYSIS OF GRADE 10 TAKS - 2003
10
(No Transcript)
11
(No Transcript)
12
Number of TEKS tested by subject area GRADE 10
Format of Items
13
Social Studies TAKS Tests Spring 2003 Question
Format Analysis
14
PHASE-IN OF TAKS PERFORMANCE STANDARDS Social
Studies
KEY
Standard Error of Measurement Below the Panel
Recommendation Items Needed to Meet
Total TAKS Min. Requirements
Test Items

• High Stakes Graduation Requirement
• SEM Standard Error of Measurement

PRM Panels Recommendation
15
(No Transcript)
16
(No Transcript)
17
(No Transcript)
18
Mastering the TEKS
Appropriate assessment based on TEKS
Designed to have students master the desired TEKS
19
(No Transcript)
20
THE BAD BOY
8.16 D
21
PRINCIPLES OF DEMOCRACY

• Limited Government
• Republicanism
• Checks and Balances
• Federalism
• Separation of Powers
• Popular Sovereignty
• Individual Rights

22
PRINCIPLES OF DEMOCRACY
23
(No Transcript)
24
Resources

• Documents from this sessionhttp//www.alief.isd.
  tenet.edu/instructional/social-studies/TSSSA/TSSSA
  TAKS Session 100903.htm
• Alief ISD Social Studies Websitehttp//www.alief.
  isd.tenet.edu/instructional/social-studies/default
  .htm
• TAKS Tools for Social Studieshttp//www.alief.is
  d.tenet.edu/instructional/social-studies/taks_tool
  s_for_social_studies.htm