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Overview of STAAR Acting Assessments

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The Texas Pedagogy Agency (TEA) has createdoptional online interim assessments that align to the Texas Essential Noesis and Skills (TEKS). Test questions for the STAAR Interim Assessments are adult with Texas teachers and include some former STAAR items. These assessments will be available at no cost to districts and open-enrollment charter schools, and they are not tied to accountability.

What's New?

STAAR Interim Assessments will go along for the 2021–2022 school twelvemonth and will be hosted on Cambium's assessment platform.

Key Dates and Details for 2021–2022

Key Dates Details
July 31, 2021 Registration available
August twenty, 2021

Interim assessment overview training video to be released
September 7, 2021-December 17, 2021 Administration Window 1:  grades 3–8 reading, Spanish grades 3–5 reading, grades three–8 mathematics, Spanish grades three–five mathematics, Algebra I, English I, and English language Two
November 8, 2021-April 15, 2022 Administration Window 2:  grade 5 science, Spanish grade 5 science, grade 8 science, class 8 social studies, Biology, and U.S. History
January x, 2022-Apr 15, 2022 Administration Window 3:  grades three–8 reading, Spanish grades three–5 reading, grades 3–eight mathematics, Spanish grades 3–5 mathematics, Algebra I, English I, and English II

Annotation: TEA recommends Nov for Window 1 tests and February for Window 3 tests for the virtually accurate prediction of STAAR performance.


TEA will offering just i testing opportunity for science and social studies and recommends that these assessments be administered after nigh TEKS have been covered in the classroom. Unlike TEKS for mathematics and reading, which tend to include similar skills that build in complication, science and social studies TEKS most often comprise discrete skills, facts, and concepts.

Accommodations

Refreshable Braille

reading, grade 8 social studies, English I, English II, U.S. History

Content and Language   Supports

available for all English language and Spanish assessments

 Text-to-Speech  available for all English and Spanish assessments

Data Reported

  • Results from the STAAR acting assessments will be reported in Cambium's centralized reporting organization (CRS). CRS will contain district-level, campus-level, and student-level reports. Reports at the pupil level will include the following data:
    • the student's response to each examination question,
    • the TEKS educatee expectation for each test question,
    • a pop-upwardly window that shows the test question
    • item-level reporting information, and
    • Reporting Category targets.
  • Reports volition continue to include data files and percentages representing the statistical probability of achieving "Approaches," "Meets," and "Masters" grade level expectations on STAAR.

Resources

  • STAAR 2020-2021 Interim Assessments Summary Report (PDF posted 8/30/21)

  • STAAR 2019–xx Interim Assessments Summary Report (PDF posted three/ii/21)

  • STAAR 2018–19 Interim Assessment Technical Report (PDF posted 9/25/20)

  • STAAR Interim Assessments Educator Guide with FAQs (PDF posted 8/24/21)

  • Information File Layout (PDF posted vii/28/21)

Courtesy At Home Testing Parent and Student Letter for District Apply

TEA has created this resource as a courtesy. Districts may use this certificate to share with students or parents of students who are completing the STAAR Acting Assessments at home. The file includes both an English and a Spanish version of the alphabetic character.

Courtesy At Home Testing Parent and Student Letter (English language and Castilian PDF posted 8/24/21)

STAAR Interim Assessments Blueprints

  • Grades 3-8 Mathematics, Grades 3-8 R/LA, Grades 5 and viii Science, Grade eight Social Studies, English I and English Two, Algebra I, Biological science, U.S. History

Support Videos

  • STAAR Interim Assessments Overview: This video is intended for all curious audiences! Educators, parents, and administrators tin acquire the purpose and blueprint of the STAAR Interim Assessments.

Training Materials

Delight see dates and details related to preparation below.

  • July xiv, 2021 - Learning Management System (LMS) Live
  • August 20, 2021 - STAAR Interim Assessments overview training video on LMS
  • September 10, 2021 - Centralized Reporting System (CRS) Alive Webinar (Annals on LMS)
  • September 17, 2021 - Educator Training Modules on LMS