Reporting

To assist educators, parents, students, and other stakeholders in understanding reporting for the Texas Assessment Program, the Texas Education Agency (TEA) has updated the terminology used for various reporting events based on input received. In addition, campus rosters will now be included earlier, with administration reports for data verification instead of with final administration reports for accountability. Refer to the Reporting section of these Coordinator Resources for more information.

Student Test Tickets

District testing personnel may print student test tickets for the first assessment administered in the school year and reuse the test tickets throughout the school year. However, student test tickets must be kept confidential when not used for testing because they contain personally identifiable information. All test tickets not being kept for reuse must be destroyed after each test administration; otherwise, they must be destroyed at the end of the school year.

Test Information Distribution Engine

Based on input from educators, the Test Information Distribution Engine (TIDE) has been updated to include several enhancements. Refer to the What’s New for the 2025–2026 School Year training module in the Learning Management System (LMS) for more information. The following changes have been made to TIDE:

View Options: Users can choose between Card View and List View based on their needs and preferences.
Fewer Clicks: Users can add, search, and upload students directly from the dashboard.
Smarter Navigation: Users can navigate to a new right-side panel for instant access to detailed information on key tasks, such as appeal types and search options.
Updated Interface: Users can easily identify and enable settings via new buttons on the test attributes page.
New Campus-Level User Role: Users have access to a new campus-level optional role called Hotline Direct Assistant (HDA) for use in the new Hotline Direct system that is launching this winter. This new system for writing alerts will allow users to more easily access student responses that trigger the alerts.

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Test Delivery System

To assist students with taking online assessments, the following updates have been made to the Student Interface of the Test Delivery System (TDS):

The login interface has been updated to make it easier to identify the operational and practice sites. The operational site background is blue and the practice site background is green.
The Student Interface now has a system settings button that allows students to adjust specific accommodations, including color, mouse pointer, and zoom settings. These settings are accessible both before and during the test.
The TDS rich text editor has an updated look and can support a wider variety of characters.
The strikethrough tool has been updated to allow for hiding more content.

Centralized Reporting System

To assist districts with interpreting the results of online assessments, the following updates have been made to the Centralized Reporting System (CRS):

Starting with the spring 2026 State of Texas Assessments of Academic Readiness (STAAR^®) administrations, users will be able to download constructed responses at the roster, campus, or district level and receive a report in PDF format.
There is a new Teacher Authored Scoring Center (TASC) for teacher-authored tests.

Response Entry

The Data Entry Interface (DEI) is now known as the Response Entry system (RE).

The district test site registration form for out-of-school and out-of-district testing will be accessible in TIDE. The form will be available on the Administration and Security Forms card in TIDE, and registration submissions should be made only during the dates specified in the Calendar of Events.
Augmentative and alternative communication devices will be allowed for use on STAAR for students with documentation in their IEP, but district testing personnel must disable phrase-level prediction.

The STAAR Alternate 2 Image Card Count document is now provided on the STAAR Alternate 2 Image Card Count page of the Paper Administrations section of these Coordinator Resources.
There will no longer be a barcode on the packets containing STAAR Alternate 2 image cards. Image cards do not need to be tracked but must be returned to Pearson at the end of the administration.