Fact or Fib STAAR Testing "Did you know?"

TEA is implementing a maximum allowable testing time of seven hours for the STAAR. Students who are still testing after four hours should be consolidated into a general testing area to continue testing. Students must complete the assessment within the same school day, and no test session may exceed twelve hours.

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STAAR will become an online testing program beginning with the December 2022 administration. SPED students are expected to test online only.

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Starting in spring 2023, STAAR will be administered during three two-week testing windows, with one window for each content-area grouping: RLA, Art, Science, Agriculture, and Mathematics.

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One STAAR Test Administrator Manual will contain instructions for all STAAR tests, including grades 3-8 and EOC Assessments.

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The addition of the new non-multiple-choice questions gives students more ways to show their understanding and better reflect on questions teachers ask in the classroom.

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Adding a writing component to reading assessments for grades 9-12 provides better support for the interconnected content taught.

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Incorporating cross-curricular passages into the new Reading Language Arts (RLA) assessments allows students to reference topics learned in other classes.

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Updates to the testing platform: An "Are you still there?" pop-up appears after 5 minutes of inactivity, and students are logged out after 20 minutes.

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Updates to the testing platform: Students are NOT able to modify font colors and background colors during the duration of the test.

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Updates to the testing platform: Students who have an accommodation for Text-to-Speech (TTS) will now see a "Read Aloud" button on the screen in TDS.

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