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By Dr. Harry Tennant
Thursday, November 18, 2010 STAAR: A New Assessment Model (for Texas) "The state assessments will continue to be based on the Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS), the standards designed to prepare students to succeed in college and careers and to compete globally. However, consistent with a growing national consensus regarding the need to provide a more clearly articulated K–16 education program that focuses on fewer skills and addresses those skills in a deeper manner, the Texas Education Agency (TEA) is implementing a new assessment model for the STAAR tests for elementary, middle, and high school. The majority of the new STAAR assessments will test content students studied that year, as opposed to testing content studied over multiple years. Doing so will strengthen the alignment between what is taught and what is tested for a given course of study.....for more click: STAAR: A New Assessment Model Quoted from TEA .pdf document available above and at TEA's STAAR Webpage. Posted at 11:13 AM Keywords: STAAR , TAKS , Accountability , Standardized Testing , Assessment , Texas 0 Comments |