2022 Spring TCAP Annual Assessments Launch Statewide Next Week

Annual Testing Outcomes Drive Strategic
Choice-Making to Finest Assist College students

Nashville, TN— With one of many longest operating summative evaluation applications within the nation, Tennessee’s 2021-22 Spring Tennessee Complete Evaluation Program (TCAP) testing window will start on Monday, April 18th and shut on Friday, Might sixth. College students in faculties throughout the state will take state summative assessments typically schooling topic areas—together with English language arts (ELA), math, science, and social research— to gather invaluable information to tell strategic decision-making on the best way to greatest help Tennessee college students.  

In the course of the 2020-21 faculty yr, the state achieved a 95% participation price in state summative assessments, which far exceeded the 80% purpose established by Public Chapter 2, which was handed in the course of the January 2021 Particular Legislative Session. Whereas state-level outcomes from the 2020-21 Spring TCAP assessments present that pandemic-related disruptions to schooling led to anticipated declines in scholar educational proficiency throughout all topics and grade bands, these declines have been mitigated as a direct results of the laborious work of Tennessee’s districts, faculties and educators.

“Tennessee academics, districts and faculties persistently put the wants of their college students first to make sure they’re studying each day and are on pathway to success,” stated Commissioner Penny Schwinn. “For folks and academics particularly, annual evaluation information is a useful measure of scholar progress that helps help studying and achievement yr after yr.” 

Annual TCAP assessments are an important a part of Tennessee’s public schooling system and serves a number of functions for the state, together with: 

• Offers suggestions about college students’ educational progress and the way it aligns with grade-level expectations 
• Offers households and academics a high-level perspective about how a scholar is progressing in comparison with friends throughout the district and state, together with a scholar’s strengths and development alternatives 
• Builds confidence and transparency about college students’ readiness for postsecondary and the workforce amongst Tennessee faculties, universities, and employers 
• Helps educators strengthen instruction and replicate on their observe 
• Highlights exemplar districts and faculties to be taught from throughout the state 

Over the previous two years, Tennessee has launched a whole lot of free and non-obligatory evaluation sources to help educators with a statewide formative platform, Schoolnet. Moreover, the division is constant so as to add enhancements to the TCAP Household Portal, which offers mother and father and caregivers with on-demand entry to their college students’ state check outcomes. Enhancements can be obtainable within the coming months and embody simpler to know graphics and language, historic check data and progress over time, personalised movies of their college students’ outcomes, and connections to literacy sources. 

Mother and father and households have shared their gratitude and suggestions for the TCAP Household Portal:

“It fairly actually provides me details about my son’s present testing capabilities and his educational progress and breaks that data down into specifics about what he could or will not be having points with.” – Tennessee Guardian  

“In my thoughts, the very cause a report like this exists is to tell – this type does an excellent job of this. As the aim of testing is to measure the place a scholar is, observe progress, and advocate motion, outcomes must be communicated successfully. This report does this successfully – each visually and thru textual content. I stroll away with a transparent understanding of what I wished to know.” – Tennessee Guardian 

“I believe the detailed descriptions are nice – they might function a stable place to begin for a dialog about the place he’s struggling and what we will do to get him over these challenges/take motion” – Tennessee Guardian 

TCAP contains summative assessments for English language arts (ELA), math, science, and social research for grades 3-8, highschool end-of-course (EOC) exams in English I and II, Algebra I and II, Geometry, Built-in Math I, II, and III; Biology, and U.S. Historical past. TCAP additionally contains the TCAP-Alternate Evaluation for college kids with disabilities, and the non-obligatory TCAP Grade 2 Evaluation in math and ELA. 

For extra data on the state’s assessments, click on right here. To be taught extra concerning the TCAP Household Portal, rating experiences, and see pattern check questions, go to Finest for All Central’s Featured Household Sources. 

For Tennessee Division of Schooling media inquiries, contact Edu.MediaInquiries@tn.gov.  

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