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Department of Research, Planning & Evaluation

Dr. Cloyd Hastings, Director of Assessment and Accountability
972-968-6133

Michael Morgan, Coordinator of Planning and State Testing
972-968-6148

Corrie Edmondson, Assessment and Data Services Facilitator
972-968-6238

Functions and Roles

The Research, Planning and Evaluation department has six primary roles.

1. Manage administrative functions for all state and most nationally administered test materials.
   Interpret the district, campus, classroom and individual student results of all state and nationally administered tests. 
   Interpret laws, rules and guidelines and provide training for the administration of state and national tests.
2. Interpret and analyze the student performance accountability structures, regulations, data and reports associated with both state and federal law.
   • No Child Left Behind and Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP)Federal Academic Excellence Indicators System (AEIS) - Texas
   • Performance-Based Monitoring Analysis System--Texas 
3. Provide leadership and administrative oversight of district long range planning to include the development, periodic review, dissemination and evaluation of progress related to specific plans.
4. Program evaluations designed to monitor efficient and effective implication of academic programs and the degree to which the programs achieve their stated goals.
5. Provide leadership and administrative oversight of district long range planning to include the development, periodic review, dissemination and evaluation of progress related to specific plans.
6. Program evaluations designed to monitor efficient and effective implication of academic programs and the degree to which the programs achieve their stated goals.

Accountability - Planning - Evaluation

"Intelligence will seize the immediate meaning in a situation and evaluate it. Intellect evaluates evaluations, and looks for the meanings of situations as a whole."
-Richard Hofstadter (1916-1970), U.S. historian