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Star Student Progress Monitoring Report

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The Star Student Progress Monitoring Report graphs an individual student's progress towards Star targets.

Related video: AssessMinutes—Monitoring the progress of students in intervention

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.

  4. On the Star / Assessment tab on the Reports page, under “Growth and Progress,” select Star Student Progress Monitoring Report.

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 and Assessment Type drop-down lists to choose the assessment types to include in the report. The assessment types available will change depending on the subject chosen:


    Subject Available Assessment Type
    Reading Star Reading Enterprise
    Reading Star Early Literacy
    Maths Star Maths Enterprise
  2. 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.
  3. 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.

  4. 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.
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    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).
  5. 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.
    The user has chosen to select custom dates. 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 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.

  6. 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.

  7. To the right of the Benchmark Type drop-down list, tick Hide Students Without Data if you want to have students without test data omitted from the report.
  8. Once you are done choosing report options, select Update Report.

  9. The report will generate and then open at the bottom of the page.
    An example report. One student's results from five assessments are shown on a graph, with a trend line running through them. A vertical line indicates the date a target was set for the student; a line representing this target is also shown. For this student, the trend line is above the target line.
    The graph above shows data from a common configuration: the student has a Scaled Score target set and the Star Unified scale has been selected. The graph describes the student's progress towards the most recent target (based on the start and end dates of all the student's targets). If a student has multiple overlapping targets, the following order is used to determine which target is considered to be the "most recent":

    1. Targets in a date range that includes today's date.
    2. Targets in a date range with the latest starting date (the most recent date before today).
    3. Targets in a date range with the latest ending date (the furthest date after today).
    4. If there are still multiple targets that overlap (conditions 1–3 above could not make the determination), then a Scaled Score (SS) Target is considered the most recent, followed by a Student Growth Percentile (SGP) Target.

    Note:     The vertical axis of the graph will always show Scaled Scores regardless of the type of target set for the student.

    After the student's first Star test, the teacher began an intervention program (yellow dashed line). The target is shown by the green star; a line drawn to that target shows the student's expected progress towards that target.

    Every test of the selected type that the student takes after that is added to the graph. The color of the circle shows which benchmark category the test score placed the student in. In the example above, the student has been sticking very close to the target line, going At/Above Benchmark once and being On Watch three times. Note: Activities without a benchmark category will be shown with a gray circle and referred to as "Benchmark Unknown" in the legend.

    If the student has taken at least four tests, a trend line is also shown. A trend line is a straight line intersecting a group of data points on a graph; its location and slope are determined through statistical analysis. It indicates whether the student's overall scores are rising, falling, or remaining the same.

    The chart can display a maximum of 10 interventions/target lines.

    SGP targets cannot be drawn on the chart.

    When a student has only taken two tests, calculating growth only requires dividing the difference in Scaled Scores by the time in weeks between the two tests. Once three or more tests have been taken, linear regression is used, which takes all of the tests taken into account, not just the first and last tests. Every time a student takes a test beyond the second one, the growth rate gets recalculated.

    The same data is presented in a table beneath the graph: the target the student is trying to reach, and the student's test-taking history towards that target. Once the student has taken two tests, a Growth Rate is calculated and shown in the right-hand column.
    • If the student has no goal set, Growth Rate is calculated by the change in Scaled Score divided by the time in weeks between the two tests.
    • If you selected a scale earlier, the score in the Scaled Score column is shown in that scale.
    The same data from the graph, shown in a table, with additional scores from each assessment included.
    Above this table is a summary of the student's progress towards the most recent target: the target's name, point value, and start/end dates are shown. The Target Growth Rate is a calculation of how many Scaled Score points the student would have to improve by every week in order to achieve the target. (For calculation purposes, the date of the most recent test and the target date are included in the calculation; the number of weeks used in the calculation is a whole number rounded down to the number of full weeks.) The SGP values are based on which SGP testing window the test was taken on; selecting custom dates will have no effect on the calculated SGPs shown.

    how sgp target types affect the graph and chart

    SGPs cannot be converted to Scaled Scores; although the "Target Growth Rate" element will still appear above the table, it will have a value of N/A.
    The student's target as a Student Growth Percentile (60), and N/A for the target growth rate.

  10. You can change any of the options you have selected and then regenerate the report by selecting Update Report.
  11. To print the report, select the PDF icon at the top of the screen: .
  12. To return to the Reports page, select either Back to Reports or the report icon    at the top of the screen.
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