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As a periodic progress-monitoring assessment, Star Reading serves three purposes for students with at least a 100-word sight vocabulary. First, it provides educators with quick and accurate estimates of reading comprehension using students’ instructional reading levels. Second, it assesses reading achievement relative to UK norms. Third, it provides the means for tracking growth in a consistent manner longitudinally for all students. This is especially helpful to school and school network administrators.
While the Star Reading test provides accurate normed data like traditional norm-referenced tests, it is not intended to be used as a “high-stakes” test. Rather, because of the high correlation between the Star Reading test and high-stakes instruments, classroom teachers can use Star Reading scores to fine-tune instruction while there is still time to improve performance before the regular test cycle. At the same time, school and school network administrators can use Star Reading to predict performance on high-stakes tests. Furthermore, Star Reading results can easily be disaggregated to identify and address the needs of various groups of students.
This manual documents the suitability of Star Reading computer-adaptive testing for these purposes and demonstrates quantitatively how well this innovative instrument in reading assessment performs.