Record TX24-1 · 2024–2025
TX24-1: Source Based Literary Analysis
Written in the spring 2024 STAAR administration and published in the 2024 guide. Texas English I EOC; exact grade and age unknown.
Original student excerpt
Miss McGill realized how her own freedom and independance is important to her. She found herself having the sudden impulse to buy Mr. Mifflin’s van and the need to go out and have an adventure. This is a new and exciting change of pace and life style considering she has been working on the farm for years.
Three consecutive sentences from the agency-published response; original language preserved.
Prompt and conditions
Exact prompt. Read the excerpt from Parnassus on Wheels. Based on the information in the excerpt, write a response to the following: Identify and explain the significance of the revelation Miss McGill has from her dealings with Mr. Mifflin. Write a well-organized essay that uses specific evidence from the excerpt to support your answer.
- Source conditions
- One Supplied Text; one supplied text; outside access not documented as allowed.
- Time
- Exact duration unknown. About three hours expected and seven-hour same-day maximum for the whole test absent approved extension; essay-specific time unknown.
- Production / archive
- typed online; anonymized response in agency scoring-guide PDF.
- Drafting
- planning/revising/editing allowed in test; no post-feedback revision.
- Population and selection
- Texas STAAR English I or II EOC operational response; exact grade, age, district, and supports unknown. Operational response purposively published as a score-point exemplar.
Scorer and feedback role
Institutional Assessor. Not an authenticated classroom-teacher feedback pair.
- Original source classification
- 4 of 5 — partial understanding with consistent conventions. Organization and Development 2/3 plus Conventions 2/2, Score Point 4 Response 1.
- Form
- Scoring Annotation; response-specific.
- Revision after feedback
- None survives.
“The idea of ‘independance’ is not fully developed, but the text-based evidence to support the development of the idea of ‘freedom’ is sufficiently explained.”
Read the evidence coding
Conceptual claimContact with Mifflin reveals that freedom and independence matter to McGill.
Ideas and relationships3 coded units. Farm confinement, unrecognized desire, and an impulse toward action form a character-motivation chain.
AbstractionSustained
Causal reasoningInterpretive Multistep
Qualification / counterargumentNone
Evidence useSeveral Source Details And Quotes
OrganizationCompact Thesis To Evidence
Sentence controlControlled
Lexical precisionApt General
Articulation limitIndependence is named but not fully distinguished from freedom or adventure.
These are descriptive codes, not scores. No composite or rank is calculated. Organization/Development 2/3 is partial and Conventions 2/2 is top; one point below full exemplar, but not a Texas median.