STAAR U.S. History

Welcome to Albert's State of Texas Assessments of Academic Readiness (STAAR) in U.S. History course!

This page provides specific content-related information for Albert's STAAR U.S. History prep course, including how it is organized, how to find questions using standards or tags, and ideas for classroom uses. If you need technical assistance, please visit our Help Center or contact hello@albert.io.

For testing information or details about the exam itself, visit the Texas Education Agency.

Albert's STAAR U.S. History course is organized into themes and further broken into short, formative assessments on specific topics.

Our full STAAR U.S. History subject guide includes a topic quizzes that align with the different subtopics on the exam.

Our topic quizzes are short, formative assessments that are designed to be given in a single class period and include selected response and open-response questions. The quiz questions mimic the rigor and format of the actual exam. For example, here are some topic quizzes:

Every question is aligned to the standards outlined in the Social Studies Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS). Each standard begins with the state abbreviation TX.

You can find questions aligned to learning standards using our standards search tool. In the Standards drop-down at the top of the Assessments tab, you can search for standards by name (for example, TX TEKS 13.A) or description. When you type in characters that match one of the standards, the drop-down will populate with matching standards.

In addition to standards, each question is assigned one or more tags to help differentiate between the wide variety of questions we offer. These tags are a word or phrase {explain how tags are used in the course}, with all words lower-case and multiple word tags connected by a hyphen. For example, “{segregation}” or “{the-gilded-age}”.

To search for a tag, click the Tags drop-down within the subject and enter the tag or content you're searching for in the search bar.

For more help on finding questions using standards and tags, visit our Help Center.

STAAR U.S. History uses six question types to provide students with a variety of practice that mimics the actual exam. These question types include:

For additional material, you can combine STAAR U.S. History with our other core courses, US History. Our core courses are aligned to {state} standards, so you can leverage thousands of aligned practice questions across Albert to assess, reteach, and extend student learning.

Our Help Center is available any time and provides articles written by the Albert team to answer questions you might have about implementing Albert in your classroom.