Morath's Presentation on Hybrid Scoring: Corrections to Commentary about How Hybrid Scoring Was Communicated

TEA posted this powerpoint to answer questions about hybrid scoring. Morath gave a presentation this week. Here's the link: https://tea.texas.gov/student-assessment/testing/hybrid-scoring-key-questions.pdf 

Inaccurate Information about Communication

On slide 8, the presentation explains that "TEA provided information in other stakeholder group presentations, e.g., Texas Science Education Leadership Association (TSELA), Texas Social Studies Supervisors Association (TSSSA), Texas Council of Teachers of English Language Arts (TCTELA), Coalition of Reading and English Supervisors of Texas (CREST)" in November of 23. 

This is not true. TEA did NOT provide information to TCTELA or CREST in 2023 about hybrid scoring. 

There was NO CREST conference in 23. 

There was a TCTELA conference in February of 23, but NO mention of hybrid scoring was mentioned. Here are my notes because TEA did not release the slides. I also recorded the session on my iphone.  I reviewed my personal recording today. There was NO mention of Hybrid scoring. 

 https://docs.google.com/document/d/1K6SFfwEPeKXO43WHEugVHcQwJSicCVNJqXLlNHRF6AI/edit?usp=sharing 

The FIRST ELAR folks heard about this was from their Testing Coordinators and from a pdf posted on the TEA website in December of 2023. To reiterate - the top ELAR organizations in Texas did NOT have the information. And from what I know, the region service centers did NOT cover any of the information about hybrid scoring until after December of 2023. We didn't know. And they didn't tell us in the way described in this presentation. The information on side 8 is blatantly inaccurate. My momma would call that a lie. 

Other Information and Questions

The slides do give us some good information. But we still aren't getting the answers we need for transparency or instructional intervention or initial instruction.