TEA rolls out STAAR redesign, online grading In December ... If states want to get more students to do a better job of engaging with test questions, they need to do a better job of writing ...

The Texas Education Agency is defending its decision to let computers grade students’ STAAR essay test questions in the face ...

people would question the validity of my test.” Finan said the STAAR results show that 846,231 of the state’s approximately 5 million students got zeros on their essays – one out of every ...

the STAAR redesign. The test itself in ‘22-23 became more rigorous, more complicated, different question types; ‘23-24 is when … our essays, our short constructed responses, extended ...

The new STAAR test has been the subject of litigation that has prevented the release of school district A-F accountability ...

Oversight and metrics are necessary for any statewide institution, but teachers and parents are well aware of the stress students experience when preparing for the STAAR test at the end of every ...

Educator, writer, and researcher Dr. Irma Guadarrama pens a guest column about a lawsuit brought by various Texas school ...

Those changes included new question types, testing format and scoring methodology. “The STAAR itself was redesigned in the 2022-2023 school year, so the test itself has been different for the ...

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 ...

The suit questions the use of computers to score ... the Commissioner radically changed the way the new STAAR test is being administered by replacing human graders with AI grading,” their ...

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Nacogdoches ISD has joined a lawsuit against the Texas Education Agency that claims the state’s new, automated online grading system for the STAAR test is flawed. The district’s board of trustees ...