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!

New Question Types by Grade Level and Content Area

• 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 

• STAAR Redesign TEA FAQ

Presentation and Recorded Session

• 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

• Introduction​
• 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
• Task Card: Create a Writing Composition
• Video: Creating AKO

• Task Card: Creating Items in the Workspace
• Task Card: Numeric Response Question Types (Griddables)
• Video: Creating Items
• Naming Conventions

• Video: Score Constructed Response Items 
• Task Card: Score Constructed Response 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: Constructed Response (CR) , Explicit Constructed Response (XCR)

• Video: Constructed Response
• Task Card: Constructed Response
• Document: OnTrack Alternative Item Types

• Coming Soon!

TEA Name: Graphing (Points, Lines, Slider)

OnTrack Name: Graphing Lines (GL), Graphing Point (GP)

• Task Card: Graphing Points
  
• Task Card: Graphing Lines
  

• 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: Hot Text (HT)

• Task Card: Hot Spot 
• Document: OnTrack Alternative Item Types

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: Hot Spot (HS)

• Video: Hot Spot as Number Line
• Task Card: Hot Spot 
• Document: OnTrack Alternative Item Types

• Video: Constructed Response (CR)
• Task Card: Constructed Response (CR)

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: 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)