Today marks the end of the 89th Texas Legislative Session. At its completion, hundreds of bills have been passed and signed ...

This, among other things, prompted me to pursue a Ph.D. in education to better understand large-scale educational assessment ... is designed much like a norm-referenced test – that is, assessing ...

Senate Bill 105 by Sen. Mark Abraham, R-Lake Charles, initially called for the state to replace the LEAP test with a national assessment beginning in the 2026-27 school year. A task force of ...

House Bill 4 replaces this outdated system with an assessment program focused on ... 4 replaces the STAAR exam with shorter nationally norm-referenced tests administered three times each year ...

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 ...

It also shifts the way the state measures students from a criteria-referenced test to a norm-referenced assessment ... While a criterion-referenced test determines if students have mastered ...

The bill requires private schools to select a nationally norm-referenced assessment to test its students ... this change would guarantee the STAAR test would end. STAAR test is a criterion-reference ...

The bill requires private schools to select a nationally norm-referenced assessment to test its students ... STAAR test is a criterion-reference test, which compares a student’s scores to ...