Texas Education Code - EDUC § 39.0263. Administration of District-Required or Campus-Required Benchmark Assessment Instruments

(1) a practice test;

(2) a nationally norm-referenced assessment instrument;

(3) a district-created standards assessment;  or

(4) a vendor-created assessment of state standards.

(1) in grades three through eight, a benchmark assessment instrument other than an alternative assessment instrument under Section 39.023(q);  and

(2) in a grade other than the grades described by Subdivision (1), more than two benchmark assessment instruments during a school year before the administration of an end-of-year or end-of-course assessment instrument.

(1)  the administration of a college preparation assessment instrument, including the PSAT, the PreACT, the SAT, or the ACT, an advanced placement test, or an international baccalaureate examination;

(2)  an independent classroom examination designed or adopted and administered by a classroom teacher;

(3) a diagnostic assessment included in a screening or testing for dyslexia or a related disorder; or

(4) an assessment instrument required under state law, including under Chapter 28 or 29 or this chapter.