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Multi-Part Question STAAR Reading Language Arts

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Constructed Response Question STAAR Reading Language Arts

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Multi Select Questions STAAR Reading Language Arts

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What is something that you learned from the resources that you would take back to your teachers ASAP?

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What is something that you learned from the resources that you would take back to your teachers ASAP?

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What is something that you learned from the resources that you would take back to your teachers ASAP?

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HB 3906, passed in 2019 by the 86th Texas Legislature, requires that by the 2022-2023 school year no more than 75% of the items on STAAR tests be of the multiple choice item type. TEA has defined multiple choice as "an assessment Item in which the student is tasked with selecting one correct response from a set (typically four) of possible responses provided". The new item types are expected to appear on STAAR tests effective with the Spring 2023 administrations, they will not appear on the Spring 2021 STAAR tests.

In January 2021 districts were able to volunteer to participate in cognitive labs where students were able to participate in learning activities that involved item types that were under consideration. These labs were held in February 2021. Because these new items are so different from the current operational items they cannot be embedded in the current STAAR tests as field test items and will need stand-alone field testing. This field testing is expected to take place in the spring of 2022. Details on these field tests are forthcoming.

Based on these cognitive labs, the following item types are currently under consideration for inclusion on future STAAR tests and are included in the subject area sample items linked further down in this post.

Multiselect

Multiselect items will require students to select more than one correct answer to a question. This item type would be applicable to mathematics, reading language arts, science, and social studies.

Multipart

Multipart items are made up of two parts, A & B. The answer to part B is dependent on the student's answer to part A. This item type would be applicable to reading language arts, science, and social studies.

Drag-and-Drop

Drag-and-drop items require a student to evaluate a given set of options (words, numbers, symbols, etc.)and drag their answer choice(s) to an area of the item to which the student determines it belongs. This item type would be applicable to mathematics, science, and social studies.

Hot Spot

Hot spots require students to select one or more areas of a graphic as their response to an item. This item type would be applicable to mathematics, science, and social studies.

Graphing

Graphing items allow students to independently graph their response to an item using bar graphs, function graphs, solution sets, etc. This item type would be applicable to mathematics.

Equation Editor

Equation editor items allow students to independently enter equations or inequalities as their response to an item. This item type would be applicable to mathematics.

Hot Text

Hot text items require students to select a highlighted sample of text (hot test) in a sentence, paragraph, or extended passage to cite as evidence to demonstrate their understanding of the item This item type would be applicable to reading language arts and social studies.

Inline Choice

Inline choice items allow students to select a response from a drop down menu placed within the question. This item type would be applicable to mathematics, reading language arts, and social studies.

Text Entry

Text entry items require students to independently enter a brief response to an question, such as a word, number, or phrase. This item type would be applicable to mathematics, reading language arts, and science.

Short Constructed Response

Short constructed response items allow students to give brief explanations in their own words to demonstrate their understanding of the content in the item. This item type would be applicable to reading language arts, science, and social studies.

Match Table Grid

Match Table Grid items require students to match the information presented in a table to a response item. This item type would be applicable to mathematics, reading language arts, and social studies.

Viewing new item types

Currently, you may view how the new item types will be presented in this video posted on the TEA STAAR Redesign webpage.

TEA plans to add sample sets of the new item types to the Practice Test section of the Texas Assessment Portal in Fall 2021. Once you are in the Practice Test section make sure the Guest User and Guest Session toggles are set to "On" (the toggle will be blue) and click the green "Sign In" box. Select a grade level from the dropdown menu (selecting grade level 2 will only show the TELPAS practice tests). When available the new item types sets will have their own distinct section. A more precise date of availability is not available.

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New STAAR Item Type Examples * Region 13's Blog

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HB 3906, passed in 2019 by the 86th Texas Legislature, requires that by the 2022-2023 school year no more than 75% of the items on STAAR tests be of the multiple choice item type. TEA has defined multiple choice as "an assessment Item in which the student is tasked with selecting one correct response from a set (typically four) of possible responses provided".

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What Should Educators Know About The Texas STAAR Test? New STAAR Item Types Explained

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What Should Educators Know About The Texas STAAR Test? New STAAR Item Types Explained

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Texas STAAR Student Assessment Updates | TeacherMade

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Are you ready for the new Texas STAAR updates? In this post, we will walk you through incorporating them into your classroom using TeacherMade.

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Copy of Copy of STAAR 2.0 Practice Slides

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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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At least it will tell the students that there will be two answers to the question. It is good to know that the students will get partial points for getting part of the answer correct.

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We need to move our kids away from the notion that the questions will only have one correct answer. This will be difficult at first since we are so used to choosing one correct answer. They will need to pay close attention to the question because it actually tells them that there are two answers.

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Share the Multi Select Question You Tube Video with 2nd grade teachers. Have teachers write multi select questions to model and then for exit tickets and for CFAs.

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Have teachers make students aware that partial credit is given for only 1 correct answer choice. So have them focus on choosing at least one good answer. Share this example to model how to think through a problem like this and continue to have students practice this type of question.

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Adding some sentence stems could be helpful to start with, and then gradually take them away.

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I would have my teachers work on having students highlight or write out which sentence best supports their answer.

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Students can receive partial credit instead of no credit. Teachers can create CFA's that include this type of questioning to prep students. 

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Students can receive partial credit instead of no credit. Teachers can create CFA's that include this type of questioning to prep students. 

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It is important that the students get the first question correct to get the 2nd question, but this would be important to teach the students to go back and check their answer based on the evidence for part 2 of the question.

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Part 1: Asking a question
Part 2: Have students support their answer using text evidence.

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Get started on short answer questions and provide students sentence stems so they don't lose their way while answering...

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Partial credit may help them to dig deeper for evidence. Lots of opportunity for practice.

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Providing a checklist/rubric for students when writing a short constructed response. Adding these into lessons starting off with least once a week.

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This is something that will be more challenging for these students. It is important to provide them stems for practice and to emphasize the correct order things should be written/spoken.

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Have teachers always follow up student responses with "How do you know?" so that they get in the practice of supporting their thinking with text evidence.

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Lots of opportunities for practice. Letting students know that they will have questions that do have more than 1 correct answer will help them navigate this change.

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This is something that will need to be practiced in the classrooms to be able to give them the opportunity to be successful.

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Make sure students look for key ideas to include in their short constructed response.

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On the next 3-5th grade DCP there will be a Multi-Select question that the students will be required to answer. The prompt will tell them to choose two correct answers.

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It has to become the norm for students to not only speak with evidence but also write with evidence to support their thinking on a regular basis.

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Tools for testing online will be important when eliminating answer choices. We have to practice on CFAs. 

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Tools for testing online will be important when eliminating answer choices. We have to practice on CFAs. 

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Anytime a student answers have them back it up with text evidence. Consistently use stems so kids are used to it. 

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Anytime a student answers have them back it up with text evidence. Consistently use stems so kids are used to it. 

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Incorporate multiselect answer options on CFAs.

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Incorporate multiselect answer options on CFAs.

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Opportunities to practice this is going to be key. SO, i would like to immediately have teachers start practicing this w/ exit tickets. Making the paradigm shift from there being only one RIGHT answer.

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Opportunities to practice this is going to be key. SO, i would like to immediately have teachers start practicing this w/ exit tickets. Making the paradigm shift from there being only one RIGHT answer.