ELAR STAAR Data Trends from TEA: Outlined by Topic

At TCTELA's conference, TEA shared additional insight about data trends from recent assessment item analysis. Texas teachers moving the needle on performance for STAAR in many areas. Yet - as in anything - there is room for improvement. As we plan for next year, regardless of what the assessment looks like, TEA has provided rich ingredients for us to consider about refining our instructional expertise and understanding about student performance.

While TEA can provide data and synthesis about what these data points indicate, it's our job as practitioners to identify ineffective practices and to embrace progressively complex understandings to influence our pedagogy and interactions with students as we select our curriculum and plan our lessons.

In the following links, you will find the data points, analysis, identification of potential problems, and directions to begin your search for solutions as you plan for the faces you will see in the next few weeks.

• General Trends
• Where We Are Doing Well
• Author's Purpose
• Summary
• Organization
• Supporting Evidence (Reading Lens)
• Supporting Sentences (Writing Lens)
• Transitions
• Thesis
• Editing
• Constructed Response/Essay