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Texas Lawmakers May Eliminate STAAR Testing
The Texas Education Agency (TEA), conducted an assessment of the validity and reliability of the STAAR test in 2016. The study found that “a given test score could be ‘valid’ for one use but ...
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Texas will use computers to grade written answers on this year’s STAAR tests
The change comes after the STAAR test, which measures students ... director of student assessment at the Texas Education Agency. In 2023, Rios said TEA hired about 6,000 temporary scorers ...
Fort Worth Star-Telegram9y
Test standards finally move up, but only a little
Texas Education Commissioner ... on the State of Texas Assessments of Academic Readiness tests required in the state’s public schools. It’s about time. STAAR tests have been used to measure ...
The Texas Tribune10d
From Capitol to Classroom: Texans Deserve World-Class Public Education
It’s time we expanded the scope of Texas’ A-F accountability ratings system to include factors beyond STAAR test scores. The ...
The Austin Chronicle21d
Can Confidence in the STAAR Test Get Any Lower?
STAAR is the widely criticized assessment instrument used to ... poorly on the new essay portion of the test, which is referred to in Texas Education Agency bureaucratese as the “extended ...
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Latest STAAR results bring call to action
WICHITA FALLS (KFDX/KJTL) — WFISD board members are once again discouraged but determined to take action regarding low performance on the last STAAR tests or State of Texas Assessments of ...
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OPINION: Standardized testing isn’t helping students, only districts
This November, Massachusetts voters will decide whether to keep or change a system that shapes the educational path for thousands of students, as they face a pivotal choice about the future of ...
Plainview Daily Herald14d
Some Plainview early childhood grades decreased under new STAAR system
The new STAAR test has been the subject of litigation that has prevented the release of school district A-F accountability ...
Not all students are meeting grade level standards. How is Corpus Christi ISD responding?
In 2023-24, teacher vacancies and problems implementing new curriculum affected Corpus Christi ISD student performance on ...
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Elementary Schools Using Lexia Core5 Reading Achieve Higher Scores on State Assessments
The Texas State Impact Report indicates that students in schools that used Core5 scored 4 to 5 points higher, on average, on the STAAR RLA assessment ... Raising test scores in underperforming ...
Fort Worth Report9d
Arlington ISD sets 2025 student performance goals. Trustees worry some are unrealistic
Students in Arlington ISD face higher performance expectations heading into 2025, prompting some school board members to ...
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Not all students are meeting grade level standards. How is Corpus Christi ISD responding?
During a Corpus Christi Independent School District board of trustees meeting Monday evening, the school board compared the district's goals to State of Texas Assessments of Academic Readiness ...