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Accommodation policies may apply to any student taking the State of Texas Assessments of Academic Readiness (STAAR ®) or the Texas English Language Proficiency Assessment System (TELPAS) depending on his or her needs and whether the student meets the eligibility criteria, as applicable.
- STAAR Accessibility Educator Guide
The goal of State of Texas Assessments of Academic Readiness...
- STAAR Accessibility Educator Guide
The goal of State of Texas Assessments of Academic Readiness (STAAR®) accessibility is to ensure that each student can interact appropriately with the content, presentation, and response modes of the state assessments.
TEA defines accommodations as changes to materials or procedures that enable students to participate meaningfully in learning and testing. TEA accommodation policies may apply to any student taking STAAR depending on his or her needs and whether the student meets the eligibility criteria, as applicable.
The term “Content and Language Supports” refers to a cluster of accommodations provided only in the online version of STAAR as pop-ups, rollovers, prereading text, and supplementary materials. Review the TEA policy document for details about allowable use of content and language supports during test administration.
Writing: Test administrator must be careful not to clarify word meaning in a way that cues answers to items testing spelling, mechanics, and grammar. Example: Test administrator is not permitted to clarify the meaning of tested words in item assessing homonyms. Clarification in English of Word Meaning.
Linguistic Accommodations for ELLs Participating in the STAAR Program. Linguistic accommodation guide is principal source of linguistic accommodation information for testing personnel. Coordinators and test administrators should read and review the contents of this guide carefully. Available at http://tea.texas.gov/student.
Assessments should allow all test takers to demonstrate their knowledge of the content being tested without the format of the assessment, non-tested language, or the type of response needed to answer the questions being barriers. In order to meet this goal, various features and supports are made available