Significant changes to the STAAR test caused Ector County ISD’s scores to decline, along with the entire state’s scores.

STAAR test scores also largely determine how the state's education agency grades districts and campuses through its A-F ...

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STAAR tests have been used to measure student achievement for four years. The performance standards were scheduled to be moved up two years ago, but Williams has been holding them down. The Texas ...

Ector County ISD trustees met Tuesday for a regular board meeting and heard updates on enrollment numbers as well as STAAR ...

The district saw a decline in early childhood reading and math performance alongside improvements to college, career and ...

Standardized testing has always been a mixed bag. Oversight and metrics are necessary for any statewide institution, but teachers and parents are well aware of the stress students experience when ...

ABILENE, Texas (KTAB/KRBC) – Students prepare all year for the STAAR Test, hoping to make a good grade and get passed to the next grade level, but one Wylie 7th grader with above the average ...

College Station ISD had some ups and downs in its STAAR accountability results ... s results of the State of Texas Assessments of Academic Readiness tests during a special workshop Tuesday ...

[Texas will use computers to grade written answers on this year’s STAAR tests] The TEA has vigorously defended its automated scoring engine, rejecting comparisons of the technology to artificial ...

Nacogdoches ISD has joined a lawsuit against the Texas Education Agency that claims the state’s new, automated online grading ...