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In 2010, Texas Commissioner of Education Robert Scott announced the successor to the TAKS, STAAR. The STAAR had intensified rigorousness and end-of-course assessments, instead of a unified 9th, 10th, and 11th-grade Mathematics, ELA, Science, and Social Studies test. Therefore, one would take an Algebra I test in order to pass Algebra I, and so on.
Students in high school-level English I, English II, Algebra, Biology and U.S. History courses also take end-of-course exams. Families can expect to start seeing results in June.
The Texas Education Association redesigned the STAAR and implemented the new version in the 2022-23 school year to closer align with what is being taught in classrooms.
Alabama requires the Stanford Achievement Test Series; and in Texas, the Texas Higher Education Assessment. That state has discontinued its usage of the Texas Assessment of Academic Skills . Since the 2007–08 school year, Kentucky has required that all students at public high schools take the ACT in their junior year.
STAAR scores for high schoolers show continued challenges in math post-pandemic. Experts say students risk being ill-equipped for workforce.
The official logo of the TAKS test. Mainly based on the TAAS test's logo. The Texas Assessment of Knowledge and Skills (TAKS) was the fourth Texas state standardized test previously used in grade 3-8 and grade 9-11 to assess students' attainment of reading, writing, math, science, and social studies skills required under Texas education standards. [1]
Worthing was the sole Texas high school which did not satisfy any of the Texas Education Agency's academic accountability benchmarks in the period 2014–2018. In 2016 Worthing was the Texas high school with the third lowest the level of academic growth in the State of Texas Assessments of Academic Readiness (STAAR) tests in mathematics and ...
The Texas Education Agency released 2023 standardized test scores, which show student learning remains steady but there's less mastery in some areas.