The State of Texas Assessments of Academic Readiness, commonly referred to as its acronym STAAR (/stɑːr/ STAR), is a series of standardized tests used in Texas public primary and secondary schools to assess a student's achievements and knowledge learned in the grade level.
(Later introduced in the 2022-2023 school year)[5] When Senate Bill 1031 was passed in the spring of 2007, it called for the TAKS to be repealed.
The STAAR had intensified rigorousness and end-of-course assessments, instead of a unified 9th, 10th, and 11th-grade Mathematics, ELA, Science, and Social Studies test.
(Later introduced in the 2022-2023 school year)[5] The STAAR Redesign was the result of House Bill (HB) 3906 passed by the 86th Texas Legislature in 2019.
It will include online testing and accommodations, new question types, cross curricular passages, and evidence-based writing.
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.
Lastly, the STAAR Redesign will make it that RLA tests have reading and writing and include an ECR (extended constructed response) for every grade level.
[8] A student will begin the test after instructions scripted by the Texas Education Agency are read aloud by the proctor/Test Administrator.
The proctor is not allowed to access STAAR test content at any time except as mandated by a manual or documented needs of the student.
Texas law provides for civil or criminal prosecution of someone divulging test content or student information.
However, students may be provided with accommodations, called designated supports if they are routinely used and meet eligibility guidelines created by the Texas Education Agency.
Then educators determined how the objectives could be best assessed and developed guidelines outlining eligible test content and test-item formats.
Using the input of the teacher committee and the results of field-testing, TEA and Pearson build the real STAAR.
"[3] Like the TAKS, the STAAR is mandatory every year, unlike the Texas Assessment of Academic Skills, which called for one-time testing for every student.