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Star Screening Report

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The Star Screening Report graphs students' placement above and below benchmarks based on Star scores. It is used to identify students who are having difficulty reaching benchmarks. Once those students have been identified, you can begin to organize your intervention plan. Students who are not reaching a specific benchmark can be further divided into groups to help you focus your resources on the students who need the most help.

How do I get to this page?

  1. Log in to Renaissance.
  2. On the Home page, select Star Reading, Star Early Literacy, or Star Maths.
  3. In the drop down-list, select Reports.

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  4. On the Star / Assessment tab on the Reports page, under “Screening and Instructional Planning,” select Star Screening Report.

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Who can do this with default user permissions?

School Network Level Administrators, School Network Dashboard Owners, School Network Staff, School Level Administrators, School Staff, Teachers

  1. Use the Subject drop-down list to select the subject for the report: Reading or Maths.

  2. Use the Assessment Types drop-down list to narrow down the type of assessments you want to include in the report. The options available will change depending on the chosen subject:
    Subject Available Assessment Type
    Reading Star Reading Enterprise
    Reading Star Early Literacy
    Maths Star Maths Enterprise
    (If Maths is the chosen subject, you will not need to select Star Maths Enterprise as the Assessment Type.)
  3. Use the School drop-down list to select the school you want to create the report for.
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    • You can only create the report for one school at a time.
    • School level administrators, school staff, and teachers can only select one of their own schools.
    • If you only have access to a single school, you will not need to make a selection (the School drop-down list will not be shown in this case).
  4. Use the Students drop-down list to select either a single class at the chosen school, or choose All Classes to select all the classes at the chosen school.

    • School administrators and school staff can only select classes in their own school.
    • Teachers can only select their own classes.

    To select specific classes, groups, or students at the chosen school, use the links below the Students drop-down list. Selecting one of these links will open a corresponding pop-up window; in that window, tick the box at the top of the list to select all the available choices, or make individual selections below it. You can enter search criteria in the field at the top of the window to find a specific class, group, or student. (In the "Select Students" pop-up window, school network- and school-level users can select a year to narrow down the list of students.)
    Examples of the pop-up windows that appear when the Classes, Groups, or Students links are selected. In each case, a search field at the top lets you search for specific classes, groups, or students; a tick box above the listed classes, groups, or students lets you select or deselect all of them at once; and the Clear All link, Cancel button, and Save Selection buttons are at the bottom. In the Select Students window, there is a drop-down list to the left of the search field where school network- and school-level users can specify a single year to search within.

    • School administrators and school staff can only select classes, groups, or students in their own school.
    • Teachers can only select their own classes, their own groups, or students enrolled in one of their own classes.

    Once you have made your choices, select Save Selection at the bottom of the pop-up window.

  5. If you want to use demographic data to further refine the data in the report, select Choose Demographics...

    By default, the "All" option is chosen for Ethnicity, Gender, Language, and Year Level. To reduce the scope, choose the "Select" option at the top of the appropriate column and then tick your selections in that column.

    In the example above, the user has selected two Languages and three Year Levels, while leaving Ethnicity and Gender at the default "All" options. Note: The Filter Reports by Ethnicity user permission may be set to prevent the use of ethnicities as a filter.

    By default, the "All" option is chosen for Characteristics. To reduce the scope, choose Select Characteristics... and then tick each characteristic you want students in the report to have. You must also choose any or all (after "Include students with") to specify whether students with any of the selected characteristics will be included in the report or only those with all of the selected characteristics.

    In the example above, the user selected two Characteristics (Children from Service Families and EAL Competent). Because any is selected, the report will include students who are Children from Service Families, EAL Competent, or both. If all had been selected, only students who are both Children from Service Families and EAL Competent would be included. Note: The Filter Reports by Characteristics user permission may be set to prevent the use of characteristics as a filter.

    Once you are finished choosing demographic options, select Apply at the bottom of the window to save your choices (or Cancel to close the window without saving your choices).
  6. Use the Group By drop-down list to choose how you want the information in the report to be grouped: by classes/groups or years. Use the Screening Window drop-down list to choose the  dates you want to generate the report for (custom dates or an existing screening window). If you select Custom, use the calendars to select a range of dates or type them in the fields using d/m/yyyy format; then select Apply to use the dates you have chosen or Cancel to close this pop-up without saving your selection.
    The Group By and Screening Window drop-down lists. The pop-up calendar for custom dates is open, with the Apply and Cancel buttons in the upper-right corner.

    If schools use their own unique date ranges within a school network screening window, those ranges will all have the same name. To help you tell them apart, the dates they cover will be added to the end of the name.
    Three Autumn screening windows, with three different date ranges to differentiate them (1/9 to 10/9, 10/9 to 20/9, and 20/9 to 30/9).

  7. If necessary, use the Scale drop-down list to choose which scale you want to use for the scores on the report.

    Use the Benchmark Type drop-down list to choose which benchmark you want to measure students' scores against. 

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    notes on the scales and benchmarks

    • A student's Scaled Score and benchmark placement are calculated from a Rasch score. Individual Scaled Scores are associated with a range of Rasch scores, so there may be (rare) minor differences between a student's Scaled Score and their benchmark placement.
    • The Lexile® Scale will not be a selectable option if the report is being run for Star Maths.
  8. Tick Static KS2 SATs Benchmark to show how students are expected to perform on the end-of-school-year test if taken on the date of their Star test. It uses the actual cut scores aligned to the KS2 SATs test levels (no time adjustment). If this option is not ticked, the report will show if students are on track by using current, time adjusted cut scores to better account for student learning that is yet to occur before the KS2 SATs test date arrives (this option only appears if KS2 SATs is chosen as the Benchmark Type).

    Tick Show Student ID to include student IDs in the report.

    Tick Show Testing Location if you want the report to show whether students tested at the school or remotely.

    Tick Hide Groups Without Data if you want to have groups without any data omitted from the report.
    The tick boxes described above.
  9. Once you are done choosing report options, select Update Report.

    The Update Report button.
  10. The report will generate and then open at the bottom of the page. The first part of the report summarises the data for an entire class in a chart and a table.

    An example report. The chart at the top shows which benchmark categories the students in the class are in. The table at the bottom gives a detailed summary of the students' scores, and tells how many students have and have not tested, and how many tested remotely and at school.
    • For each of the selected classes, you can see how many students have and have not tested, how many of them tested remotely or at school (if you selected that option earlier; "N/A" means either the students' tests were taken before this tracking feature was added to the program or your school/school network is not tracking this information), and how many of them are above and below the benchmark category which was set as the minimum proficiency level (defined by the default school network benchmark setting and the structure of those benchmarks), or as defined by the KS2 SATs benchmarks if you chose that option earlier.
    • You can also see the cut scores (Norm Referenced Standardised Score and Percentile Ranks) that define the benchmark categories.
    • If you have selected KS2 SATs for the benchmark type (in step 7), the Current Benchmark column changes to Static KS2 SATs Benchmark (showing what the cut scores were when the tests were taken), and Percentile Ranks will not be shown:

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      Beneath the table is a recommendation on how to interpret this data.
  11. Beneath the initial graph and table, the data is further broken down based on the benchmark categories. You will see the students that fall into each benchmark category, the date of their most recent test, and several scores based on that test (the scores shown will vary based on the assignment type—the examples below show scores from a Star Reading Enterprise assessment).

    The second group of tables, where each benchmark category has its own table, including the students who are in those categories. Additional test scores and test-taking data for each student are shown.

    notes on the scores

    • If you selected a scale earlier, the score in the SS column is shown in that scale.
    • If the following conditions are met: then the Lexile® range will be shown instead of the ZPD.
    • Students that have taken a test outside of the screening window will not be included on this report. If you are not seeing a student on this report but they are appearing on others, please double-check the dates they were tested against the screening window dates.
  12. You can change any of the options you have selected and then regenerate the report by selecting Update Report.
  13. Select the PDF icon at the top of the page or the Print or Save button above the first table in the report to create a PDF of the report. You can also select the Download Data button above the first table in the report to download a CSV (comma-separated values) version of the report that you can open in a spreadsheet program.
    The Print or Save and Download Data buttons.
  14. To return to the Reports page, select either Back to Reports or the report icon    at the top of the page.
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