Parents encouraged to check their children’s TCAP scores online

The Tennessee Department of Education is encouraging families to keep track of their children’s testing results through an online portal.The department launched the Tennessee Comprehensive Assessment Program (TCAP) Family Portal in 2020 to provide families with on-demand access to their student’s TCAP and end-of-course assessments results. The portal also provides resources, including specific questions from previous assessments, historical data, and sample questions for families to ask educators about their students’ academic progress.“The TCAP Family Portal equips parents and families with easy explanations of their student’s performance on the TCAP through reports, videos, and more,” said Lizzette Reynolds, Tennessee Department of Education Commissioner. “Parents and families can use the portal to find individualized data and resources as they continue conversations with their student’s teachers on how to best support their student’s academic achievement and future success.”The portal provides testing results that are broken down so that families know what their student needs to improve on and what their strengths are.Families can also use the portal to find reading materials that match the student’s academic needs.“The TCAP Family Portal has a very user-friendly format and features built into the platform that share meaningful information with parents and suggests next steps and areas of reinforcement needed for individual student growth,” said a Tennessee parent.Parents can access the portal by using their student’s seven-digit student ID which is located on bottom right-hand corner of the printed TCAP score report. If the score report is not available, then parents can contact their student’s school to request the ID number. Two zeroes must be added in front of the seven-digit ID number.