Teacher Student Growth

Teacher Student Growth Minimums

To be eligible for a TIA designation, teachers must earn a minimum student growth outcome. Based on statewide performance expectations, TEA established minimum expectations for teacher student growth. More information can found in TEA's Student Growth Performance Standards document.

Teacher Student Growth Measure

The Teacher-Student Growth measure counts for 50% of the TIA score to determine designation. As outlined in the "Student Growth Instrument" section below, projected student growth as set by the third-party assessment provider will be used to calculate student growth.

Student growth will be calculated for all students that have a designated fall (BOY) and spring (EOY) assessment. Student growth performance will be associated with a teacher or teachers based on the following enrollment criteria:

• Teacher of record at PEIMS snapshot date (October), or

• Teacher of record at PEIMS winter enrollment (February), or

• Teacher of record at end of year test date enrollment (April), or

• Student caseload for other 087 instructors that are not teachers of records (i.e. special education teachers, interventionists, dyslexia, etc.)

Teachers will be required to complete a PEIMS Membership Reconciliation process to ensure that class rosters are accurate. Student growth will be calculated at the teacher level. If a teacher is assigned to multiple assessed content areas, the subject with the highest percent of the student growth content areas will be used for the student growth measure data.

Student Growth Instrument

The instrument used to measure student growth is listed below:

• MAP Growth will be used for K-8 ELAR, English I and English II,  K-8 Mathematics, Algebra I, Geometry, and Algebra II, 3-8 Science, and Biology.

• STAAR Transition Tables will be used as a secondary measure for 4-8 ELAR and Mathematics, Algebra 1, and  English I/English II.  

Calculating Student Growth 

For MAP Growth, student growth is calculated as the percentage of students that meet or exceed their MAP projected growth from the fall/BOY administration to the spring/EOY administration.

For STAAR Transition Tables, student growth is calculated as the percentage of students that show as Some Progress (1/2), Expected Progress (1) or Accelerated Progress (2 or 3) for their overall gain score from the previous year's STAAR score to the current year's STAAR score in the same subject. This measure is calculated by TEA, not the district.

Teacher Student Growth Rubric