Texas Kindergarten Entry Assessment Required Measures for

Texas Kindergarten Entry Assessment

Required Measures for ECDS for 2022-23

Updated 7-21-22

For this school year, the Texas Kindergarten Entry Assessment (TX-KEA) on CLI Engage offers several child

progress monitoring tools and reports to aid teachers and schools in instructional planning and data analysis,

including the beginning-of-year statewide kindergarten literacy screener. The following information,

developed in collaboration with the Texas Education Agency (TEA), aims to assist school districts and open

enrollment charter schools (LEAs) using CLI Engage to select child progress monitoring measures that meet

state guidelines, provide rich data for schools and communities, and help teachers support children in the

classroom.

For this school year, LEAs using TX-KEA on CLI Engage will report a composite score for the statewide

literacy screener and individual measure scores into the Early Childhood Data System (ECDS), part of the

Texas Student Data System (TSDS). The table on the following page shows the TX-KEA measures that

comprise the composite score. This composite score is exported by CLI Engage into ECDS, allowing LEAs to

load their composite scores through the TSDS ECDS application.

Should LEAs choose to submit data from subtests outside the required literacy screener (i.e. mathematics,

health and wellness), they must indicate this preference through a survey from CLI. Additional information

will be provided to LEA administrators in Fall 2022.

ECDS Reporting

Please review the following information when selecting the TX-KEA measures that will be assessed in

kindergarten classrooms:

• Texas Education Code (TEC) §28.006 requires LEAs to administer an assessment instrument that

measures emergent literacy-reading skills. LEAs using TX-KEA to fulfill this requirement must

administer all three measures that comprise the composite score for the

kindergarten literacy

screener score (Vocabulary, Letter Names, and Spelling).

• In addition to the kindergarten literacy screener composite score, ECDS reports from CLI Engage

will also include raw scores for Vocabulary, Letter Names, and Spelling that will be used to calculate

the new

statewide kindergarten readiness score

by TEA.

• Reporting requirements will only include BOY measures (referred to as Wave 1 in CLI Engage).

Recommendations

• 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 on the

following page. If your LEA administers these measures using TX-KEA, those scores can be included

in your ECDS submission.

TX-KEA Aligned to ECDS Domains (Wave 1/BOY Only)

ECDS Domain

English Measures

Spanish Measures

Score Type

KINDERGARTEN LITERACY

SCREENER

All three measures

are

required to calculate the

Composite Score

Vocabulary

Letter Names

Spelling

Vocabulario

Nombres de las Letras

Ortografía

Composite Score

LANGUAGE AND

COMMUNICATION

Vocabulary

Vocabulario

Raw score

EMERGENT LITERACY:

READING

Letter Names

Nombres de las Letras

Raw score

EMERGENT LITERACY:

WRITING

Spelling

Ortografía

Raw Score

MATHEMATICS

Math Part 1

Math Part 2

Matemáticas Parte 1

Matemáticas Parte 2

Raw Score (Total)

HEALTH AND WELLNESS

Social Emotional Competence

Socio-emocional

Raw Score (Total)

Please submit a help ticket to contact us with questions about CLI Engage (cliengage.org/help), and consult the Texas

Education Agency for questions about reporting to ECDS (ecds@tea.texas.gov).