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I realized how important it is for the foundation of math

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I noticed that the structure of the test is

like the Benchmark assessments we are

using.

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Our Benchmark Assessments look almost identical to this testing. This should help out third grade next year.

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The level of understanding that they expect from an 8-9 year old is absurd! And doing questions that involve more than one reading passage is not plausible for that age level.

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The STAAR looks very similar to the Benchmark assessments we are currently doing! So many skills needed for every questions. Main idea--or central idea in this test---author's purpose in the short answer needing to be supported by text evidence, using context clues to define vocabulary, etc.

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Each question had multiple steps.

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Students had to read to be able to do the math assessment. Lots of logical thinking!

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lots of navigating for a student on a chromebook- can be hard for kids

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I did not realize students would have to navigate between two stories for a single question.

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The next contestant of Love is Blind noticed that the format of the staar is cleaner, the spacing of the questions, and having them bulleted, makes it easier to read. Our questions are in paragraph form.

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These questions are easier than the test we take in 2nd grade!

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Students need brain breaks during the test.

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The wording of the questions is high level. The kids need to be able to understand how to go back and find answers in the story without any direction of which paragraph to look at.

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You cannot just teach error analysis to deduce multiple choice questions. The test has a multitude of different question types. It's more important than ever to make sure students truly know the content and not just how to take a test.

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The evidence needed to be proved by what was in the passage.

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the questions are getting harder and the passage is a poem

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Benchmark has the same format as the test.

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The students have to type out some of their answers and be reading on grade level to read and answer the questions.

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Students need strong reading skills even to be successful at math assessment.

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kids are expected to go back and read and compare

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Our unit test are similar to the STAAR.

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I was surprised by how hard it is to narrow down to the "clear" answer from the others.

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Learning how to navigate through the online stories and questions was interesting

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The essay question was much more complex than I expected for 3rd grade.

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I think students need to be doing math using pen and paper. This seems more advanced than when I was in 3rd grade.

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the rigor of the questioning-a lot of inferencing

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I did not realize students had to navigate between 2 stories within the same question.

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tiny screen, little words, lots of scrolling

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My aha was that a lot of the concepts we are teaching is being tested. They needed to pick apart the steps.

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the kids need to be doing math on paper and not a computer to be able to do what the questions are asking

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The test had a lot of place value questions.

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more place value questions than I thought

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each question had several steps