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These items are aligned to TEKS not included in 2025 STAAR Assessed Curriculum.

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These items are aligned to TEKS not included in 2025 STAAR Assessed Curriculum.

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These items are aligned to TEKS not included in 2025 STAAR Assessed Curriculum.

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Scoring Process for STAAR Constructed Responses

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Scoring Process for STAAR Constructed Responses

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How to access 2024 STAAR Released Tests on texasassessment.gov

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The State of Texas Assessments of Academic Readiness (STAAR®) test is being redesigned to make the test more tightly aligned to the classroom experience.
Summative Tests Redesign Overview

The STAAR redesign is a result of House Bill (HB) 3906 passed by the 86 th Texas Legislature in 2019. The Texas Education Agency (TEA), working with a wide range of education stakeholders, including the Assessment Education Advisory Committee, has been exploring the most instructionally supportive approach to implementing these changes. The redesign will be implemented in the state summative assessments administered in the 2022-2023 school year.

The STAAR redesign includes several components:

For more information about how the STAAR redesign improves alignment to the classroom experience, hear what teachers are saying, reference the STAAR Redesign February 2022 Presentation (PDF, posted 3/7/22), or see below for more information about each component. For answers to frequently asked questions (FAQ), please reference the STAAR Redesign FAQ (PDF, updated 8/30/22).

Online Testing and Accommodations

House Bill (HB) 3261, enacted by the 87th Texas Legislature in 2021, requires state assessments to be administered online by the 2022-2023 school year. Online administration allows students to receive accommodations like those they get in the classroom, provides faster test results, improves test operations, and allows new non-multiple-choice questions. This transition will require nearly all students to be assessed online, with the exceptions of students taking the STAAR Alternate 2 assessment and students who require accommodations that cannot be provided online. See what educators have to say about the robust accommodations available to students through online testing.

Resources to Support Online Testing and Accommodations:

New Question Types

House Bill 3906 established a "multiple choice cap," meaning that no more than 75% of points on a STAAR test can be based on multiple choice questions. Texas educators are helping design new question types that reflect classroom test questions and allow students more ways to show their understanding. All possible new question typesare being field-tested with students to ensure validity before they are incorporated into the redesigned summative tests beginning in spring 2023.

Resources to Support New Question Types

Cross-curricular Passages

There will be an increase in the number of cross-curricular informational passages that reference content aligned to the TEKS for other subject areas (e.g., social studies, science, mathematics, fine arts, etc.). While the cross-curricular passages on reading language arts (RLA) test will include topics from other subject areas, the questions will only assess RLA TEKS; students will not be scored on their understanding of TEKS for other subject areas.

Resources to Support New Question Types

Evidence-based Writing

Beginning with the 2022-2023 school year, RLA assessments will assess both reading and writing (grades 3-8 English, grades 3-5 Spanish, and English I and II End-of-Course) and will include new question types and an extended constructed response, or essay, at every grade level.

Based on research and educator feedback, the essay component will shift from a standalone prompt to writing in response to a reading selection. Students will write in one of three possible modes: informational, argumentative, or correspondence and will be scored using a 5-point rubric. The rubric will include two main components: idea development and language conventions.

Resources to Support Evidence-based Writing on all Tests

To clarify any information from the content on this web page, please submit a Help Desk ticket to Student Assessment

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The State of Texas Assessments of Academic Readiness (STAAR®) test is being redesigned to make the test more tightly aligned to the classroom experience. The STAAR redesign is a result of House Bill (HB) 3906 passed by the 86 th Texas Legislature in 2019.

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Find resources for the Texas Assessment Program and accessing students' scores.

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SAMPLE Short Constructed Response Scoring Guide - Gr 8

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SAMPLE Short Constructed Response Scoring Guide - Gr 8

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STAAR Released Test/Practice Site Direct Link

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TEA STAAR Released Test Questions webpage

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TEA STAAR Released Test Questions webpage

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STAAR Released Test Questions | Texas Education Agency

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TEA releases two types of test questions for STAAR—test forms and sample questions. A test form is a set of released test questions previously administered together to Texas students and reflects the STAAR test blueprints. Sample test questions are small subsets of test questions released from the STAAR test banks. These test questions may have been previously administered.

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State of Texas Assessments of Academic Readiness (STAAR®) Interim Assessments are optional, online assessments that align to the Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS) and that help educators monitor student progress and predict student performance on STAAR. These assessments will be available at no cost to districts and open-enrollment charter schools, and they are not tied to accountability.

Key Dates and Details for 2023-2024

Interim Testing Windows

Window 1 - 11/06/2023-12/19/2023

Window 2 - 11/06/2023-04/05/2024

Window 3 - 01/16/2024-04/05/2024

Accommodations

Refreshable Braille

Available for RLA, grade 8 social studies, English I, English II, U.S. History

Paper Braille

Available for 2023-2024 school year for all Windows

Content and Language Supports

Available for all English and Spanish assessments

Text-to-Speech

Available for all English and Spanish assessments

Data Reported

Results from the STAAR Interim Assessments will be reported in Cambium's centralized reporting system (CRS). CRS will contain district-level, campus-level, and student-level reports. Reports at the student level will include the following data:

The student's response to each test question,

The TEKS student expectation for each test question,

A pop-up window that shows the test question,

Item-level reporting information, and

Reporting Category targets.

Reports will continue to include data files and percentages representing the statistical probability of achieving "Approaches," "Meets," and "Masters" grade level expectations on STAAR.

Although educators are able to view secure interim test items within CRS as they are viewing student results, these secure test items should NOT be downloaded or printed.

Resources

STAAR Interim Assessments Blueprints

Use the link below to access STAAR Interim blueprints for the following:

Grades 3-8 Mathematics

Grades 3-8 RLA

Grades 5 and 8 Science

Grade 8 Social Studies

English I and English II

Algebra I

Biology

U.S. History

Download STAAR Interim Blueprints
Training Materials

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SAMPLE Short Constructed Response Scoring Guide - Biology EOC

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SAMPLE Short Constructed Response Scoring Guide - Biology EOC

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Eduphoria's Top 10 Verbs for Interactive Items

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2024 Bio EOC Student Expectations Tested

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2024 Bio EOC Student Expectations Tested

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Eduphoria Video Presentation about each Item Type

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Eduphoria Video Presentation about each Item Type

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NEW STAAR Item Types
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2017-2024 Frequency Distribution by TEKS SE

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2017-2024 Frequency Distribution by TEKS SE

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Gr 5 Assessed Curriculum-TRANSITION YEAR

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2017-2024 Frequency Distribution by TEKS Cluster

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2017-2024 Frequency Distribution by TEKS Cluster

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2024 Gr 8 SCI Student Expectations Tested

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TEA STAAR Released Test Questions webpage

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TEA STAAR Released Test Questions webpage

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STAAR Released Test Questions | Texas Education Agency

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