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Reading – Percentile Rank Target

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How do I get to this page?

  1. Log in to Renaissance.
  2. On the Home page, select Star Reading; in the drop-down menu, select Manage Targets & Benchmarks.

  3. On the Targets & Benchmarks page, select Set a Target.

Who can do this with default user permissions?

  • School Network Level Administrators: can work with targets for all students in the school network
  • School Level Administrators: can work with targets for all students in their own school
  • Teachers: can work with targets for their own students

Targets are set at the individual student level. When you set a Percentile Rank target for Reading, you set a target Percentile Rank that you want the student(s) to reach and a time frame for them to achieve that target.

Scaled Score (SS), Percentile Rank (PR) and Student Growth Percentile (SGP)

Scaled Scores (SS) are calculated based on the difficulty of questions in a student's test and the number of correct responses. They can be used to compare student performance over time and across years. Star Reading Scaled Scores range from 0–1400.

Percentile Ranks (PR) is a norm-referenced score that indicates the percentage of other students nationally who obtained scores equal to or lower than the score of a particular student. Percentile Rank scores range from 1–99.

Student Growth Percentile (SGP) compares a student's growth to that of his or her academic peers nationwide. Lower numbers indicate lower relative growth, and higher numbers indicate higher relative growth. SGP scores range from 1–99.

For more information, see Star Reading on the Unified Scale and What are Student Growth Percentiles?

  1. On the Set a Goal page, use the School , Class , and Students drop-down lists to choose which students to set the goal for.

    • You can only choose a single school or class at a time; if you only have access to a single school or class, you will not need to make a selection.
    • For students, you can use the Select All / Clear All link at the bottom of the drop-down list to tick or un-tick all the students at once.
  2. In the "Type of target" section, use the drop-down lists and select Reading for the target category and Percentile Rank for the target type.
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  3. After you make those selections, the "Set target options" section of the page will open. Select the Target start and end dates drop-down list and choose the marking period during which the students should be working towards this target (the dates for the marking periods are also shown next to their names).
    The user has chosen to select custom start and end dates for the target. A pop-up calendar is open, allowing the user to choose the dates. The dates can also be entered in the fields above the calendar. The Apply and Cancel buttons are in the upper-right corner of the pop-up window.

    If you choose a marking period, the target time period will be tied to that marking period; if changes are made to the marking period, the target time period will change with it.

    You can also select Custom... and then set a custom date range instead of using a marking period. Enter start and end dates in the fields by using the calendars to select a range of dates; then select Apply to use the dates you have chosen (or Cancel to close this pop-up without saving your selection).
  4. Enter a name for the target or intervention .
  5. Select the student activities that apply towards achieving the target
  6. Initially, you will set a single goal level for all the selected students (but you will be able to change individual student goals later if you wish). Select one of the levels presented here: 40 PR or 60 PR .
    In this example, Reading is the target category, and Percentile Rank is the target type. The user must select a level for target calculation; the Apply button is at the bottom.
  7. Once you have set the target options, select Apply .
  8. At the bottom of the page, you will see a table with all the selected students—each student's Percentile Rank (from their most recent test) is shown. Each field in the Target column will have a default target value of 1. Change these values to the PR target you want the student to achieve.


    If the selected PR target level is below the PR from the student's latest test, a Below latest test message will appear in the Target column, indicating that a higher target needs to be set for that student.

    Students who already have a Reading Percentile Rank target set for a time period that overlaps this one will appear in bold in this table, with an asterisk following their names, and a separate table below will list the overlapping targets for those students.

    You can still set new targets for these students, or, if you prefer, you can go back and edit or delete the existing targets on the Targets & Benchmarks page. If you don't want to set new targets for these students or change the existing ones, choose Change Selection at the top of the page and deselect the students who have overlapping targets.

    For guidance in choosing a Percentile Rank, see Star Reading on the Unified scale.

  9. Once you have set Percentile Rank targets for all the students, select Save Targets (or select Cancel to leave this page without saving these targets).
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