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How district-level users view report of students’ current test status
TIDE includes a Plan and Manage Testing report that details all of a student’s test opportunities and the status of those test opportunities. An opportunity is a student’s attempt at a test.
Because the report lists testing opportunities, a student can appear more than once on the report.
Plan and Manage Testing offers two ways of finding information:
Basic Search has common report options to find information on eligible students who:
have not started assigned tests;
have started but not completed assigned tests;
have not completed assigned tests (this includes those who have not started and those who have not completed tests); and
have completed an assigned test.
Advanced Search has all report options with tools to find individuals or student groups in these categories:
Test Progress with options for have/have not completed test by opportunity;
Test Status with options for any/specific opportunity and status;
Test Expiration with options for expirations on a specific day or over a range of days; and
Session ID or test administrator name with options for most recent session or specific session ID.
To access participation reports:
From the Monitoring Test Progress task menu on the TIDE dashboard, select Plan and Manage Testing. The Plan and Manage Testing page appears (refer to Figure 51).
In the Search Students panel, select the parameters for whose information to include in your report:
From the Enrolled Region dropdown list, select a region if applicable.
From the Enrolled District dropdown list, select a district if applicable.
From the Enrolled Campus dropdown list, select a campus if applicable. You may select one or more campuses from this list. You may also select all campuses. If you select more than 20 campuses or if you select all campuses and the district contains more than 20 campuses, the report will only be available to export to the Secure File Center.
Optional: If a single campus was selected, choose a teacher from the Proctor dropdown list. The “Proctor” dropdown list includes all campus-level users, such as teachers, test administrators, and principals associated with the selected campus. When you select a person from the “Proctor” dropdown list, TIDE performs a check to see if the person is associated with any roster. If no rosters exist for the selected person, no data is displayed when you generate the report. If the selected person has an associated roster, the Plan and Manage Testing report shows the test attempts of the students included in the roster.
If you do not select any person from the “Proctor” dropdown list and use the default value of All to generate the report, you will see all the tests taken in that campus, irrespective of roster associations.
It is important to note that the proctor’s name displayed on the Plan and Manage Testing report does not imply the name of the teacher. The proctor is the person who creates the test session. This can be the same as the teacher or it can mean a different person.
e. Optional: In the “TSDS ID” field, enter a TSDS ID.
f. Optional: In the “Student’s Last Name” field, enter a student’s last name.
g. Optional: In the “Student’s First Name”field, enter a student’s first name.
h. Optional: From the ‘Grade” dropdown list, select a grade. You may select one, multiple, or all grades from this list.
i. Optional: In the “Gender” field, select Male or Female.
j. Optional: In the “PEIMS ID” field, enter a PEIMS ID.
Optional: From the Advanced Search panel, select a specific test accommodation or demographic to filter the report. If you select a test accommodation or demographic, a Values filed is displayed. Select the required filter criteria from the available options. In the Choose What panel, select the parameters for which tests to include in your report:
a. Select a Test Type. NOTE: TFAR Teacher Authored Test selection is only for tests created by teachers in the Authoring system. For all other tests, including STAAR, STAAR Alternate 2, TELPAS, TELPAS Alternate, and others, use Texas Provided Tests.
b. From the “Test” dropdown list, select a test category.
c. From the “Administration” dropdown list, select an administration.
d. From the Test Name dropdown list, select the test for which you want to generate the report. You may select one, multiple, or all from this list.
In the Get Specific panel, select the radio button for one of the options and then set the parameters for that option. The following options are available (parameters for each option are listed in {brackets}):
a. Students who {have/have not} {completed/started} the {1st/2nd/any} opportunity in the selected administration.
i. Searching for students who have not started the 1st/any opportunity will return results for students who have not started their first opportunity on the selected test.
b. Students on their {1st/2nd/any} opportunity in the selected administration and have a status of {any/completed/started/paused}.
c. Search student(s) by {TSDS ID/Name}: {TSDS ID/Student Name}.
d. Students whose current opportunity will expire {in/between} {number/range} days.
i. If you select “in,” you may enter any number in the displayed text box to determine tests expiring in the specified number of days. You may also enter “0” to see opportunities that expire that day.
ii. If you select “between,” you may enter two numbers in the displayed text boxes to signify a range of days (such as 1–3).
e. Students who have a status of {student test status} in the selected administration.
f. Students whose most recent {Session ID/Test Administrator Name} was {Optional Session ID/Test Administrator Name} between {start date} and {end date}.
Do one of the following:
a. To view the report on the page, select Generate Report. If you are viewing a report for more than 20 campuses, use this option and then select Export to Secure File Center.
b. To open the report in Microsoft Excel, select Export Report. If you are viewing a report for more than 20 campuses, this option will be disabled.
For descriptions of the columns in this report, refer to the table “Columns in the Plan and Manage Testing Report” in the appendix.
How district-level users view report of students’ current test status by student ID
You can also generate participation reports for specific students by TSDS ID. This section describes how to generate participation reports for one or more students using students’ TSDS IDs.
Because the report lists testing opportunities, a student can appear more than once on the report.
From the Monitoring Test Progress task menu on the TIDE dashboard, select Search Students by TSDS ID. The Search Students by TSDS ID page appears (refer to Figure 53).
Do one of the following:
To enter students’ TSDS IDs, select Search by TSDS ID(s). Next, enter one or more TSDS IDs, separated by commas, in the Student IDs field. You can enter up to 1,000 TSDS IDs.
To upload TSDS IDs, select Upload TSDS ID. Next, select Browse and then use the file browser to select a Microsoft Excel or CSV file with Student IDs listed in a single column. You can upload up to 1,000TSDS IDs.
Select Generate Report. The Participation Report by TSDS ID appears (refer to Figure 53).
For descriptions of the columns in this report, refer to the table “Columns in the Plan and Manage Testing Report” in the appendix.
How district-level users view report of test completion rates
The Test Completion Rates report summarizes the number and percentage of students who have started or completed a test. The information is only available as an export to Excel.
The Test Progress Summary Report provides charts of the information available in the Test Completion Rates report to provide a quick visual reference. You can view the data on the screen as well as export it. Only district-level and campus-level data is available for this report. For state-level data, use the Test Completion Rate report.
NOTE: This Test Completion Rate report is calculated nightly, not on demand. The report shows the date the report was exported as well as the time the information was processed.
To access completion rate reports:
From the Monitoring Test Progress task menu on the TIDE dashboard, select Test Completion Rates. The Test Completion Rates page appears.
In the Report Criteria panel (refer to Figure 57), select the parameters for which tests to include in your report.
To open the report in Microsoft Excel, select Export Report. Figure 54 displays a sample Test Completion Rates report.
For a description of the columns in this report, refer to the table “Columns in the Test Completion Rates Report” in the appendix.