In an effort to ease the burden on school districts and charter schools in uploading required kindergarten literacy screener data into the Early Childhood Data System (ECDS), TEA initiated a data share agreement with the Children’s Learning Institute (the organization that owns and maintains CLI Engage). As part of the agreement, CLI will be submitting kindergarten data directly to TEA for ECDS. See full process in detail below and described in our webinar at the bottom of this page.
Due date for kindergarten ECDS data: Thursday, January 25, 2024
You can complete our short CLI Engage BOY Survey for Kindergarten XML files for ECDS. The information submitted in this survey will help us refine your kindergarten XML files submitted to TEA for the Early Childhood Data System (ECDS).
Please submit only one response per District/Charter agency.
ECDS Process for Kindergarten Data
- CLI creates files every day at 5:00 PM of kindergarten assessment data
- This process begins November 13, 2023 extending through January 25, 2024
- CLI submits these files Monday through Friday (except on school holidays) by 10:00 AM to TEA
- Every day, districts will use the “Load Assessments” button in the ECDS application to load their assessment data into the ODS
- Note: Districts need to have loaded their InterchangeStudentParentExtension.xml files into the ODS, from their SIS, before using the ‘Load Assessments’ button
- After a successful load of the assessment data into the ODS, districts can promote their assessment data and then run business validations and reports to verify the data
- Districts will review and approve data submitted from CLI Engage
- Districts may need to return to CLI Engage to make updates and review again, such as TSDS IDs, enrollment information, and assessment windows may need to be updated before final district approval
Your Submission to ECDS
Recommended steps prior to reviewing and approving data in ECDS:
- Use Student Results Export to download a file of the progress monitoring data from CLI Engage
- Ensure that all students have TSDS IDs (only students with TSDS IDs will be included in the export)
- Ensure that any duplicate students have been removed
- Update and adjust enrollment and withdrawal dates to exclude students who were not enrolled during your assessment window
Submission Details:
- Data from Texas Kindergarten Entry Assessment from BOY only, in specific domains (see required measures below)
- TSDS IDs required for students
- Assessment window (dates) required
- Reports ignore data created under any Demo School
- Reports include scores only for students with a valid 10-digit TSDS ID
- Students with missing, invalid, or duplicate TSDS ID are not included
- Reports include scores for both Active and Inactive students with KG grade level
Required TX-KEA Measures for ECDS
LEAs are recommended to assess in all five ECDS domains and report this information to ECDS. For TX-KEA, specific measures aligned to ECDS reports for all five domains are in the table below. If your LEA administers these measures using TX-KEA, those scores can be included in your ECDS submission.
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This document was last modified on: November 15, 2023