- Houston Independent School District
- Formative Assessment
- OnTrack Author Info
OnTrack Author Info
Redesign Resources
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Redesign Overview
The STAAR redesign is a result of House Bill (HB) 3906 passed by the 86th 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!
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New Item Type Scoring Guides/Samples/Blueprints
- Full-length practice test
- New question type online samplers
- New question type paper samplers (PDF posted 09/29/22)
- Answer keys to online samplers of new question types
- New question types by grade level and content area (PDF posted 09/08/22)
- 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 1/27/22)
- 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)
- RLA Grades 3-5 Argumentative/Opinion Writing Rubric (10/18/22)
- RLA Grades 3-5 Argumentative/Opinion Writing Rubric-Spanish (10/18/22)
- RLA Grades 3-5 Informational Writing Rubric (10/18/22)
- RLA Grades 3-5 Informational Writing Rubric-Spanish (10/18/22)
- RLA Grades 6-English II Argumentative/Opinion Writing Rubric (10/18/22)
- RLA Grades 6-English II Informational Writing Rubric (10/18/22)
- Updated test blueprints
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Redesign FAQ
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STAAR Redesign TOT
Test Creation Resources
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Creating an Item Bank Assessment
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
- Introduction
- Find/Edit/Create Assessments (Create or Setup)
- Assessment Info (Title and Students)
- Filter (Choosing TEKS)
- Filter (Technology Enhanced Items)
- Items (Show/Hide Filter) – (Rigor Review)
- 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)
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Creating an Answer Key Only
Answer Key Only
- Task Card: Create Answer Key Only AKO Assessments
- Task Card: Create a Writing Composition
- Video: Creating AKO
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Creating an Item
- Task Card: Creating Items in the Workspace
- Task Card: Numeric Response Question Types (Griddables)
- Video: Creating Items
- Naming Conventions
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Assigning Point Value and Partial Credit
- Video: Score Constructed Response Items
- Task Card: Score Constructed Response Items
Creating Items in OnTrack
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Drag and Drop
Math Reading Language Arts Science Social Studies Grades 3-8
EOCX Grades 5,8, EOC Grade 8, EOC
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
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Equation Editor
Math Reading Language Arts Science Social Studies Grades 3-8
EOCX X X TEA Name: Equation Editor
OnTrack Name: Constructed Response (CR) , Explicit Constructed Response (XCR)
- Video: Constructed Response
- Task Card: Constructed Response
- Document: OnTrack Alternative Item Types
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Fraction Model
Math Reading Language Arts Science Social Studies Grades 3-5 X X X - Coming Soon!
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Graphing
Math Reading Language Arts Science Social Studies Grades 3-8
EOCX X X TEA Name: Graphing (Points, Lines, Slider)
OnTrack Name: Graphing Lines (GL), Graphing Point (GP)
- Task Card: Graphing Points
- Task Card: Graphing Lines
- Task Card: Graphing Points
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Inline Choice
Math Reading Language Arts Science Social Studies Grades 3-8
EOCGrades 3-8, EOC X Grade 8, EOC
- Video: Inline Choice (IC)
- Task Card: Inline Choice (IC)
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Match Table Grid
Math Reading Language Arts Science Social Studies Grades 3-8
EOCGrade 8, EOC X Grade 8, EOC
TEA Name: Match Table Grid
OnTrack Name: Hot Text (HT)
- Task Card: Hot Spot
- Document: OnTrack Alternative Item Types
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Multipart
Math Reading Language Arts Science Social Studies X Grades 3-8, EOC Grades 5,8, EOC Grade 8, EOC
TEA Name: Multipart
OnTrack Name: Multipart (MP)
- Video: Coming Soon!
- Task Card: Multipart
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Multiselect
Math Reading Language Arts Science Social Studies Grades 3-8
EOCGrades 3-8, EOC
Grades 5,8, EOC Grade 8, EOC
TEA Name: Multiselect
OnTrack Name: Multiple Response (MR)
- Video: Multiple Response
- Task Card: Multiple Response
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Number Line
Math Reading Language Arts Science Social Studies 6-8
EOCX X X TEA Name: Numberline
OnTrack Name: Hot Spot (HS)
- Video: Hot Spot as Number Line
- Task Card: Hot Spot
- Document: OnTrack Alternative Item Types
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Extended Constructed Response
Math Reading Language Arts Science Social Studies X Grades 3-8, EOC X X - Video: Constructed Response (CR)
- Task Card: Constructed Response (CR)
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Short Constructed Response
Math Reading Language Arts Science Social Studies X Grades 3-8, EOC Grades 5,8, EOC Grade 8, EOC TEA Name: Short Constructed Response
OnTrack Name: Constructed Response (CR)
- Video: Short Constructed Response
- Task Card: Short Constructed Response
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Text Entry
Math Reading Language Arts Science Social Studies Grades 3-8
EOCGrades 6-8, EOC Grade 8, EOC X TEA Name: Text Entry
OnTrack Name: Numerical Response (NR), Explicit Constructed Response (XCR), Constructed Response (CR)
- Video: Explicit Constructed Response and Short Constructed Response
- Task Card: Text (XCR)
- Task Card: Numeric (NR)