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: 

• • Online Testing and Accommodations
  • New Question Types
  • Cross-curricular Passages 
  • Evidence-based Writing

Try the online test and technology-enhanced item types here!

• Full-length online practice test
• STAAR Released Test Questions
• New question types scoring and reporting guides 
  • Math (PDF posted 8/15/22)
  • Reading Language Arts (PDF posted 08/19/22)
  • Science (PDF posted 1/27/22)
  • Social Studies (PDF posted 1/27/22)
  • Spanish Reading Language Arts (PDF posted 8/25/22)
• RLA Writing Rubrics-English/Spanish
• STAAR Scoring Guides (Samples)
  • RLA Grades 3-5 Constructed Response (PDF posted 10/7/22)
  • RLA Grades 3-5 Constructed Response-Spanish (PDF posted 10/7/22)
  • RLA Grades 6-8 Constructed Response (PDF posted 10/7/22)
  • English I and II Constructed Response (PDF posted 10/7/22)
  • Science Grade 5 Short Constructed Response-English/Spanish (PDF posted 10/7/22)
  • Science Grade 8 Short Constructed Response (PDF posted 10/7/22)
  • Biology Short Constructed Response (PDF posted 10/7/22)
  • Social Studies Grade 8 Short Constructed Response (PDF posted 10/7/22)
  • US History Short Constructed Response (PDF posted 10/7/22)
• Updated test blueprints 

• STAAR Redesign TEA FAQ

• Quicklook: New Item Types - Transition to STAAR 2.0
• STAAR 2.0 Instructional Connections
• STAAR4ward for Teachers (by Content Area)

Item Bank Assessment

• Task Card: Item Bank Assessments
• Task Card: Create Writing Composition
• PPT: Item Bank Creation PPT with videos
• Video: Create Item Bank Assessments

Item Bank Assessment Creation Videos

• Find/Edit/Create Assessments (Create or Setup)​
• Assessment Info (Title and Students)​
• Filter (Choosing TEKS)​
  • Secondary Math
  • ELA TEKS
• Filter (Technology Enhanced Items)
• Items (Show/Hide Filter) – (Rigor Review)​
  •  ELA Passage
• Items (Order Items)​
• Summary (Online Preview, Booklet  Preview)​
• Performance Level – (HISD Template Cut Scores)​
• Setup (Dates and Online Settings)​
• Publish/Unpublish (Ready to use)​
• Print/Activate/Monitor (Giving test)​

Answer Key Only

• Task Card: Create Answer Key Only AKO Assessments
• Video: Creating AKO
• Task Card: Create a Writing Composition

• Task Card: Creating Items in the Workspace
• Video: Creating Items

TEA Name: Drag and Drop

OnTrack Name: Gap Match & Graphic Gap Match (GM/GGM)

• Video: Drag and Drop
• Task Card: Gap Match
  
• Task Card: Gap Match - Graphical

TEA Name: Equation Editor

OnTrack Name: Explicit Constructed Response (XCR)

• Video: Creating Explicit Constructed Response Items (XCR)
• Video: Rescoring Explicit Constructed Response Items (XCR)
• Task Card: Creating Explicit Constructed Response Items (XCR)

• Coming Soon!

TEA Name: Graphing (Points, Lines, Slider)

OnTrack Name: Graphing Lines (GL), Graphing Point (GP), Charting Types (CT)

• Task Card: Graphing Points
  
• Task Card: Graphing Lines
  
• Task Card: Charting Types

• Video: Hot Spot (HS)
• Task Card: Hot Spot(HS)
  

• Video:  Hot Text (HT)
• Task Card:  Hot Text (HT)
  

• Video: Inline Choice (IC)
• Task Card: Inline Choice (IC)
  

TEA Name: Match Table Grid

OnTrack Name: Matching Table (MT)

• Task Card: Matching Table (MT) 
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TEA Name: Multipart

OnTrack Name: Multipart (MP)

• Video: Coming Soon!
• Task Card: Multipart

TEA Name: Multiselect

OnTrack Name: Multiple Response (MR)

• Video: Multiple Response
• Task Card: Multiple Response

TEA Name: Numberline

OnTrack Name: Number Line (NL)

• Video: Coming Soon!
• Task Card: Number Line
  
  

TEA Name: Extended Constructed Response (ECR)

OnTrack Name: Writing Prompt (WP)

• Video: Coming Soon!
• Task Card: Writing Prompt (WP)

TEA Name: Short Constructed Response

OnTrack Name: Constructed Response (CR)

• Video: Short Constructed Response
• Task Card: Short Constructed Response

TEA Name: Text Entry

OnTrack Name: Explicit Constructed Response (XCR)

• Video: Creating Explicit Constructed Response Items (XCR)
• Video: Rescoring Explicit Constructed Response Items (XCR)
• Task Card: Creating Explicit Constructed Response Items (XCR)