State to Do Away with Writing STAAR
Style Magazine Newswire | 5/31/2019, 2:58 p.m.
Under House Bill 3906, fourth and seventh graders would no longer take the writing STAAR test that tests a student’s ability to compose, revise and edit a variety of written texts. But writing will still be a testing subject. The bill will add writing questions on the third through eighth grade reading tests without adding a lot more testing time. An action that STAAR critics say will expand testing because more students would be tested on writing material. Under the bill, an advisory committee would be appointed to guide the development of the test, and require the STAAR to be offered on more than one day, breaking the test up into three smaller parts that would be taken throughout the school year. Each section will be designed so that most students can complete it in 60 minutes or 75 minutes, depending on the grade level.
