Instructional Planning - Class Report

The Instructional Planning - Class Report provides a list of recommended skills for a group or class based on most recent student activity. (The Instructional Planning - Student Report does this for individual students.)

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 Date Range drop-down list to choose the dates you want to generate the report for. You can select an existing marking period, screening window, or you can select Custom... and set your own dates (use the calendars to select a range of dates or type them in the fields using dd/mm/yyyy format; then select Apply to use the dates you have chosen or Cancel to close this pop-up without saving your selection). Dates can be in the current school year or up to three years prior to the current school year.
   
   

   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.
   

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. Tick Show Only the Focus Skills if you only want focus skills to be shown in the Suggested Skills section.
   
   Tick Hide Groups Without Data if you want to have groups without test data omitted from the report.
   
9. Once you are done choosing report options, select Update Report.
10. The report will generate and then open at the bottom of the page.
    
    
    You will see the name of each class or group, the teacher, and the number of students (total and the number who completed the selected assessment type in the chosen time frame). Below this, you will see the median, lowest, and highest Scaled Scores and Percentile Ranks from the most recent assessments completed by those students.
11. Below the scores, you will see a list of suggested skills for the class/group. These are recommended skills that the students are probably ready to begin learning—they will be challenging, but not too difficult.
    • The year level for each skill is shown on the left.
    • Skills with the icon are focus skills, the most critical skills to learn at each 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
    
12. You can change any of the options you have selected and then regenerate the report by selecting Update Report.
13. To print the report, select the PDF icon at the top of the page: .
14. To return to the Reports page, select either Back to Reports or the report icon at the top of the page.