Instructional Planning - Student Report

The Instructional Planning - Student Report provides a list of recommended skills for individualised instruction based on the most recent student activity. (The Instructional Planning - Class Report does this for classes or groups.)

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 a school.
   
   
   • If you are assigned to only one school, you will not see the School drop-down list.
   • School administrators and school staff can only select their own schools.
   • Teachers can only select schools that they are assigned to.
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.)
   
   
   
   • 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 Sort Students By drop-down list to choose how you want students to be sorted in the report: by year or last name.
   
7. If necessary, use the Scale drop-down list to choose which scale you want to use for the scores on the report. (If you select a scale that doesn't apply to the selected assignment type, the default scale for that assignment type will be used.)
   
   

   The Lexile® scale will not be a selectable option if the report is being run for Star Maths.

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

   National benchmarks (KS2 SATs for Great Britain or NAPLAN for Australia) are not currently available for Star Early Literacy.

9. Tick Show only the Focus Skills if you only want focus skills to be shown in the Suggested Skills section.
   
   Tick Hide Students Without Data if you want to have students without test data omitted from the report.
   
10. Once you are done choosing report options, select Update Report.
11. The report will generate and then open at the bottom of the page.
    
    
    You will see each student's name, year, and the date of their most recent assessment (of the assessment type you have selected). Note: If the student has not taken an assessment of the selected type in the current school year, but had taken assessments of that type in the previous school year, the report will use the data from the most recent assessment from the previous school year.
    
    Below this is a bar graph showing the student's Scaled Score from the most recent test, the student's projected Scaled Score (for some years; see tip below), and the benchmark categories those scores fall into.
    
    

    notes on projected scores and benchmarks

    • If the most recent test is from the previous school year, benchmark data for the test will not be shown and no projected score will be shown.
    • Projected scores shows a prediction of the Scaled Score the student would attain if the student experienced typical growth (P50) by the last date of the school year. The calculation is based on the scores from Star Reading Enterprise, Star Early Literacy, and Star Maths tests and updates after every test the student takes.
    • Projected scores will only be available for the following years:
      UK:
      
      • Spring Mathematics: Years 2–3
      • Spring Reading: Years 2–8
      • Winter Mathematics: Years 3–4
      • Winter Reading: Years 2–8
      • Fall Mathematics: Years 3–4
      • Fall Reading: Years 2–9
      AU:
      
      • Spring Mathematics: Years 1–2
      • Spring Reading: Years 1–7
      • Winter Mathematics: Years 2–3
      • Winter Reading: Years 1–7
      • Fall Mathematics: Years 2–3
      • Fall Reading: Years 1–8
    You will see the scores (with additional information) repeated beneath the graph. If the selected assessment type is Reading, you will also see students' ZPD scores.
    
    

    notes on the scores

    • If you selected a scale earlier, the score in the SS section is shown in that scale.
    • If the report is for Star Reading assessments and the following conditions are met:
      
      • the report would normally show a student's Zone of Proximal Development (ZPD), and
      • the Lexile® range preference has been set to use Lexile® ranges,
      then the Lexile® range will be shown instead of the ZPD.
12. Below the scores and benchmarks, you will see a list of suggested skills for the student. These are recommended skills that the student is probably ready to begin learning—they will be challenging, but not too difficult.
    • The year level for each skill is shown on the left. (Note: "GM" = Geometry, "A1" = Algebra 1, and "A2" = Algebra 2.)
    • Skills with the icon are focus skills, the most critical skills to learn at each year level.
    • Star Early Literacy assessments are designed to assess early literacy skills. Therefore, skills beyond the end of year 3/start of year 4 will not be displayed. The report will note "No skill suggestions available for score and year level."
    Note that the skills shown are based on the learning standards chosen for your school network (the name of the standards appears to the right of the "Suggested Skills" heading).
    
    Sample suggested skills for Star Maths Enterprise
    
    
    
    
13. You can change any of the options you have selected and then regenerate the report by selecting Update Report.
14. To print the report, select the PDF icon at the top of the page: .
15. To return to the Reports page, select either Back to Reports or the report icon at the top of the page.