{
  "documentTitle": "2024–2025 STAAR Interim Assessment Technical Report",
  "documentUrl": "https://tea.texas.gov/student-assessment/assessment-initiatives/2024-2025-staar-interim-technical-report.pdf",
  "tableReference": "Table 1 — Comparison Between Interim Assessment and STAAR Summative Blueprints",
  "notes": "Transcribed for portal display. Always verify counts and reporting-category labels in the current-year TEA PDF and grade/subject blueprint supplements.",
  "interimVsSummative": [
    { "subject": "Mathematics", "grade": "3", "interimItems": 24, "interimPoints": 28, "summativeItems": 30, "summativePoints": 37 },
    { "subject": "Mathematics", "grade": "4", "interimItems": 24, "interimPoints": 28, "summativeItems": 32, "summativePoints": 40 },
    { "subject": "Mathematics", "grade": "5", "interimItems": 28, "interimPoints": 34, "summativeItems": 34, "summativePoints": 42 },
    { "subject": "Mathematics", "grade": "6", "interimItems": 28, "interimPoints": 34, "summativeItems": 36, "summativePoints": 43 },
    { "subject": "Mathematics", "grade": "7", "interimItems": 32, "interimPoints": 38, "summativeItems": 38, "summativePoints": 46 },
    { "subject": "Mathematics", "grade": "8", "interimItems": 32, "interimPoints": 38, "summativeItems": 40, "summativePoints": 48 },
    { "subject": "Mathematics", "grade": "Algebra I", "interimItems": 34, "interimPoints": 40, "summativeItems": 50, "summativePoints": 59 },
    { "subject": "RLA", "grade": "3", "interimItems": 24, "interimPoints": 26, "summativeItems": 41, "summativePoints": 52 },
    { "subject": "RLA", "grade": "4", "interimItems": 24, "interimPoints": 26, "summativeItems": 41, "summativePoints": 52 },
    { "subject": "RLA", "grade": "5", "interimItems": 24, "interimPoints": 26, "summativeItems": 41, "summativePoints": 52 },
    { "subject": "RLA", "grade": "6", "interimItems": 28, "interimPoints": 30, "summativeItems": 45, "summativePoints": 56 },
    { "subject": "RLA", "grade": "7", "interimItems": 28, "interimPoints": 30, "summativeItems": 45, "summativePoints": 56 },
    { "subject": "RLA", "grade": "8", "interimItems": 28, "interimPoints": 30, "summativeItems": 45, "summativePoints": 56 },
    { "subject": "RLA", "grade": "English I", "interimItems": 36, "interimPoints": 39, "summativeItems": 52, "summativePoints": 64 },
    { "subject": "RLA", "grade": "English II", "interimItems": 36, "interimPoints": 39, "summativeItems": 52, "summativePoints": 64 },
    { "subject": "Science", "grade": "5", "interimItems": 22, "interimPoints": 26, "summativeItems": 32, "summativePoints": 39 },
    { "subject": "Science", "grade": "8", "interimItems": 26, "interimPoints": 30, "summativeItems": 38, "summativePoints": 46 },
    { "subject": "Science", "grade": "Biology", "interimItems": 30, "interimPoints": 36, "summativeItems": 45, "summativePoints": 53 },
    { "subject": "Social Studies", "grade": "8", "interimItems": 22, "interimPoints": 26, "summativeItems": 40, "summativePoints": 49 },
    { "subject": "Social Studies", "grade": "U.S. History", "interimItems": 30, "interimPoints": 36, "summativeItems": 64, "summativePoints": 78 }
  ],
  "reportingCategoriesStaar2": [
    {
      "subject": "Reading Language Arts (RLA)",
      "categories": [
        "Understanding and analysis across genres",
        "Understanding and analysis of literary texts",
        "Understanding and analysis of informational texts",
        "Composing (extended constructed responses where included in the blueprint)"
      ]
    },
    {
      "subject": "Mathematics",
      "categories": [
        "Numerical representations and relationships",
        "Computations and algebraic relationships",
        "Geometry and measurement",
        "Data analysis and personal financial literacy"
      ]
    },
    {
      "subject": "Science (grades 5 and 8)",
      "categories": [
        "Matter and energy",
        "Force, motion, and energy",
        "Earth and space",
        "Organisms and environment"
      ]
    },
    {
      "subject": "Social studies (grade 8)",
      "categories": [
        "History",
        "Geography and culture",
        "Government and citizenship",
        "Economics",
        "Science, technology, and society"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "officialDownloads": [
    {
      "label": "STAAR Interim Assessments (hub and blueprint index)",
      "url": "https://tea.texas.gov/student-assessment/assessment-initiatives/staar-interim-assessments"
    },
    {
      "label": "STAAR Interim Assessment Technical Report (PDF)",
      "url": "https://tea.texas.gov/student-assessment/assessment-initiatives/2024-2025-staar-interim-technical-report.pdf"
    },
    {
      "label": "STAAR Interim Assessments Educator Guide (PDF)",
      "url": "https://tea.texas.gov/student-assessment/test-administration/staar-interim-educator-guide.pdf"
    },
    {
      "label": "STAAR program page (summative blueprints and communications)",
      "url": "https://tea.texas.gov/student-assessment/staar"
    }
  ]
}