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 be 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 will be determined using STAAR Transition tables, District Created Student Growth Expectations and a district-created rubric scale will be implemented for those using portfolios.

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 average 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 by pre-test/post-test is listed below:

Calculating Student Growth 

For subjects in Cohort 4, all pre-test/post-test growth targets will be district created.

Portfolio subjects will use the following rubric scale to determine growth targets for each of the skills.

Teacher Student Growth Rubric