Built for Texas Teachers
EnlightenAI grades STAAR ECR and SCR responses against the official TEKS-aligned STAAR rubric for grades 3-5, 6-8, and English I/II. Score Organization and Development of Ideas and Conventions in seconds, then hand back feedback that sounds like you wrote it.
Free to start. Join 10,000+ teachers already grading smarter with EnlightenAI.
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Upload Student Responses
Import writing samples from Google Classroom, Canvas, or Word. EnlightenAI formats every ECR and SCR response automatically, so you move straight to grading
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AI graded against the STAAR ECR and SCR rubric, not generic writing rules
Most AI graders apply a general quality scale to any essay. EnlightenAI is built around the TEKS-aligned STAAR rubric specifically, scoring Organization and Development of Ideas and Conventions independently, the way a STAAR rater would.
Use it for ECR responses in one unit and SCR responses in the next. The rubric stays the same, EnlightenAI carries your interpretation of each row across both response types.
Under the hood, EnlightenAI’s automated scoring engine evaluates each response against your selected rubric. For every response it scores, EnlightenAI:
Evaluates organization and progression against the STAAR standard
Judges development of ideas and the quality of evidence and commentary
Identifies convention errors by analyzing grammar, spelling, and sentence structure
Applies the same TEKS-aligned rubric interpretation to every response in the set
Two response types, one STAAR rubric: ECR and SCR
Choose the workflow that fits your classroom: immediate AI writing feedback on STAAR ECR responses students use to revise, or teacher-reviewed SCR scoring you release as a final grade.
ECR: Extended Constructed Response
SCR: Short Constructed Response
STAAR writing rubrics leave real room for interpretation between readers. What earns a 3 on Development of Ideas in one classroom should mean the same thing in another. EnlightenAI applies the same TEKS-aligned rubric standard to every response, in every classroom, eliminating drift caused by fatigue or time pressure.
Maintain consistent scoring across essays and classes
Calibrate expectations within departments
EnlightenAI turns response-level scores into class-level patterns. See which organizational moves students consistently miss, which convention errors keep recurring, and where Development of Ideas scores cluster, then use that data to design targeted mini-lessons before the next practice test.
Design mini-lessons from real student writing data
Track rubric row performance across the full STAAR year
