The primary purpose of CRS is to provide teachers quick and easy access to their students’ test results for STAAR, STAAR Alternate 2, TELPAS, and TELPAS Alternate. Teachers can see performance information by assessment, reporting category, and test question. For assessments that are released to the public (e.g., spring STAAR assessments), teachers can see each test question, the correct answer, a rationale for the correct answer, and their students’ answers.

By providing teachers access to CRS, district personnel can fulfill the reporting requirement under TEC §32.258 to notify teachers of test results. To log in to CRS, teachers must have an account in TIDE with either a user role that allows for viewing score reports or an association with students through a roster.

Setting Up Rosters

Rosters are groups of students, and each roster is associated with a TIDE user. Rosters usually represent classes but can represent any group that is meaningful to users, such as students who need more instructional support. Educators can use this feature to organize their students as they wish and view students’ performance. Educators can also view and generate information on incoming classes.  

Students can belong to multiple rosters associated with multiple educators. For example, a student in middle school might be rostered to a math teacher, an RLA teacher, a science teacher, and a social studies teacher. Educators will see only those students assigned to them in a roster.

District coordinators, campus coordinators, and principals can add, edit, export, and upload rosters using the Roster Settings menu in Features & Tools. A teacher’s main roster list must be set up first with his or her assigned students. A teacher can then send a request to create a “sub-roster” to group students into multiple rosters, such as by class period. Additionally, a teacher can request to have students removed or added to an existing sub-roster as needed throughout the year. District coordinators, campus coordinators, and principals must edit or delete rosters as needed throughout the school year to ensure only appropriate educators have access to assessment results. Refer to the CRS User Guide for specific instructions on using the Roster Management Task.

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Analyzing Assessment Data

District testing personnel can use CRS to access and analyze assessment data by assessment, reporting category, and test question for students in a specific roster, campus, district, or region. When using CRS to analyze assessment data, district personnel should keep in mind that:

• CRS offers dynamic and interactive assessment data for students who are currently active in TIDE. Testing coordinators should maintain and update student registration in TIDE so that CRS provides information representing the current student population. CRS can also show longitudinal data comparing current year results with previous years.

• CRS might not include the same data that can be found in the reporting data files that district coordinators receive. Reporting data files contain all students who are tested, including any students who may have withdrawn after testing, while CRS will only display students who are currently active in TIDE.

• Aggregate data available in CRS might not match the static district and campus summary reports and should not be considered as a source for district or campus accountability ratings.