STAAR Alternate 2 is administered on paper, and student responses must be submitted through DEI. For the 2022–2023 2024–2025 school year, TEA will offer a two-week preview window and a the five-week test administration window in the spring for STAAR Alternate 2 as indicated on the Student Assessment Testing Calendar. However, districts may also preview the test during the administration window as long as testing has not begun for that particular student.is March 17–April 18, 2025. Each district should establish a local schedule to administer the assessments during the STAAR Alternate 2 during the testing window. Tests may be given over multiple short sessions throughout the testing window. Districts District personnel should plan to test students during the first four weeks of the testing window and reserve the last week to submit data in DEI, enter score codes and non-embedded supports in TIDE, and verify that all students have been accounted for by 11:59 p.m. (CT) on April 18.

STAAR Alternate 2 is administered individually in a one-on-one setting. District personnel should determine the appropriate number of days to test an individual student to accommodate the student’s needs. Districts should plan to test students during the first four and a half weeks of the testing window and reserve the last two to three days to enter data into DEI and verify that all data are enteredNo more than the equivalent of one assessment should be administered per day to an individual student taking STAAR Alternate 2. If a student completes an assessment in one day, the student should not start another assessment that same day.

Make-up Testing

Since STAAR Alternate 2 tests assessments are administered during a five-week test administration window, districts should offer make-up opportunities to students who were absent on their scheduled assessment day.  When providing For students who are absent to observe a religious holy day, districts must offer a make-up testing opportunities, districts opportunity. District personnel must maintain the security of the assessments during make-up testing to ensure that the test content remains valid throughout the assessment testing window. 

Students Who Become Sick During

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an Assessment

A student who becomes sick and leaves campus during the test. If the student has not completed the assessment, the student may do so upon returning to school assessment may complete the assessment, as needed, on a different day within the scheduled testing window.