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Readability analysis answers the question,“Are the grade-level passages written at grade-level reading?” It was found that both 4th grade and 7th grade reading passages had the most on-your-own questions and that all the reading passages, except for 8th grade were written at least two grade levels above grade level. As the reading levels of these passages are so high, it is believed that the majority of students will most likely fail to pass the new STAAR  \nThe Accountability Age in public education continues to find momentum through state legislatures who continue to pass increasingly demanding standards in the form of a single standardized test whether it is right or not (Rothstein, Jacobsen, & Wilder, 2008) . Texas is no exception to this policy cycle. Texas Senate Bill 1031 and Texas House Bill 3 charged Texas Education Agency (TEA) to expand the Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS) focus on the state test. Thus, the State of Texas Assessment of Academic Readiness (STAAR) was created with a focus change to increase college readiness for all high school students. Buzz words have already been attached to this new and improved test such as “more rigorous,” “more accountability,” “results added to GPA,” and “timed test.” Spring 2012 testing will establish basic test norms, and then beginning 2012-2013, the STAAR will be fully implemented into Texas schools. Even though the STAAR questions will focus of fewer TEKS skills, the questions were created to require a more thorough understanding of the material, as they look at the skills in a deeper manner.  \nPurpose of the Study  \nDuring this Accountability Age, child development, the social economic status of the child, the child’s IQ, the child’s attitudes, the child’s interests, and the child’s home values are not taken into account. Teachers, children, schools, and districts are blamed when they receive the “unacceptable” label from the state. In addition, every child is expected to read at grade level.  \nThus, the researchers examined the released reading passages for the new STAAR test. After looking at some of the reading passages, the TEA offices were called and asked if a readability test was done on the STAAR reading passages. The TEA representative who answered the phone said,“No, we’ve looked at the content to make sure the content matched the TEKS but a readability test was not done.” Thus, this study is guided by the following questions:  \n1. What types of text passages are included?  \n2. What types of questions are asked?  \n3. What is the readability of the passage?  \nProcedure  \nFirst, the released passages for reading were found on the TEA website. On the website, they stated,“released items are valid test questions pulled from the item development that could have appeared on the STAAR tests”(TEA, 2012, slide 14) . The stories were copied to a word document and then all the errors were corrected, as there were misspell words and problems with spacing in several of the passages.  \nTo determine the answers to questions 1 and 2, the STAAR passages were read. The questions that were written for the passages were examined and categorized as being one of the following:  \n􀁸 right-there questions-these questions are the easiest as they can be answered from a single sentence in the passage;  \n􀁸 search-and-think questions – these questions require an inference involving linking information found in different parts of the text or connecting text information with prior knowledge  \n􀁸 on-your-own questions – these questions are motivated by the text’s information but the answer comes exclusively ","cbCaibaYrHbT81QN","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaibaYrHbT81QN","pdf",264283,14,"English","# Abstract\n# Purpose of the Study\n# Procedure\n## Released STAAR Reading Passages for Grades 3-8\n## Grade 3\n## Grade 4","[{\"question\":\"What questions does the study aim to answer about the STAAR reading passages?\",\"answer\":\"It asks what types of text passages are included, what types of questions are asked, and what the readability level of each passage is.\"},{\"question\":\"How were question types for the passages categorized?\",\"answer\":\"Questions were categorized as right-there questions, search-and-think questions, and on-your-own questions based on how students can derive answers.\"},{\"question\":\"What do the readability results suggest about grade-level alignment?\",\"answer\":\"The study reports that all reading passages except eighth grade were written at least two grade levels above the intended grade level, implying that many students may struggle.\"}]","STAAR Reading Passages - The Readability is Too High - Abstract | PDF",1790785915,35]