STAAR: What do we notice?

ELA STAAR – What we noticed

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• Text complexity

• Read like a writer (author’s purpose & craft)

• Textual evidence

Instructional Implications: ELA

• Close reading• Make connections across different texts• Short texts• Academic Vocabulary• Text evidence• Responsiveness to writing prompt

Instructional Implications: Math

   

2009 6th grade TAKS

2013 6th grade STAAR

2006 9th grade TAKS

2013 Algebra 1 EOC

Science STAAR – What we noticed

 •Reading level

•Elaborate and extend

•Process skills applied across all strands

Grade 5 Science STAAR 2013

Grade 8 Science STAAR 2013

Instructional Implications: Science• You can't teach all the examples

• You should model things in several ways

• 3-5 and 6-8 teachers need to understand vertical alignment and how content can be spiraled with connections

• Are our teacher-created assessments as rigorous as STAAR?

Social Studies STAAR – What we noticed

• Broad vocabulary of questions, answer choices and primary sources

• Variety of source incorporation: primary source text excerpts and illustrations, maps, graphs and charts

• U.S. History EOC appeared to have a greater integration of images and text excerpts in comparison to the Grade 8 STAAR

Dual-Coding outcomes: 42% Grade 8 50% U.S. History EOC

State data: males outscored females in every reporting category for Grade 8 and U.S. History

Instructional Implications: Social Studies• Address vocabulary of assessment and

content • Incorporation of a variety of primary and

secondary sources in instruction at every grade level

*Analyze sources and draw conclusions *Marriage of content and process skills• Awareness of gender-biased practices