Many of you may not know that student written responses on the STAAR test are graded by computers. We resubmitted our results and had almost 25% of our submissions improve by paying @teainfo an additional 50 dollars per test (!?!) to have a human being lay eyes on the student’s work. I’m grateful we can have tests rescored , but also sad that we have to stake 50 dollars to have a human view the results. TEA refunds your money if score goes up, but still districts are forced to make a financial decision to get an accurate result. Think of the impact that improvement has on student confidence, teacher efficacy, teacher TIA results, and campus and district ratings. Districts are put in a tough position when they are hammered for artificially and incorrect lower scores, but might not have the resources to pay to have an actual human grade the students work