The Texas Legislature is considering changes to the STAAR, our state's high-stakes end-of-year test of student performance.

There are those who argue that a nationally norm-referenced test would not be aligned with the Texas curriculum, unlike the STAAR, which is a criterion-referenced assessment. This is simply not ...

While a criterion-referenced test determines if students have mastered specific skills, a norm-referenced test, as called for in HB 4, gives teachers an idea of how students performed compared to ...

Criterion validity demonstrated that the ... age-appropriate, and norm-referenced tests that is more than 2 SD below the mean. Battelle Developmental Inventory Screening Test 6-96 mo 30 96 items ...

Nationally norm-referenced assessments compare students ... change would guarantee the STAAR test would end. STAAR test is a criterion-reference test, which compares a student’s scores to ...

Former Lufkin ISD superintendent Roy Knight did not mince words in his testimony before the House Public Education Committee in Austin early Wednesday morning. Knight was one of 734 Texans who ...

criterion or norm referenced test with a standardised assessment procedure and (6) instructional manuals are published or commercially available. Articles describing use of the assessment tool were ...

He referenced the profiles of BITS Pilani alumni and compared ... Rao clarified that ‘zero attendance’ actually means that attendance is not an eligibility criterion for appearing for the exams. “The ...