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Star Annual Progress Report

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The Star Annual Progress Report graphs student progress over a school year. Renaissance recommends administering Star assessments two to five times a year for purposes including screening, placement, diagnostic assessment, benchmark assessment, and outcomes measurement. Star assessments have been reviewed (by The National Center on Response to Intervention) for more frequent progress monitoring purposes (where students are tested monthly or weekly during the school year). New students, or students for whom you occasionally need additional information, may be tested at any time.

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 Math.
  3. In the drop down-list, select Reports.

  4. On the Star / Assessment tab on the Reports page, under “Growth and Progress,” select Star Annual Progress 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 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.)
    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 students, classes/groups, or years.

    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 selected a Group By option, and 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.

    If you group by students, you can only set one date range. If you group by classes/groups, you can set up to 10 (non-overlapping) date ranges, allowing you to track the progress of specific groups of students across a set range of dates.

    When you select Classes/Groups, a + Date Range will appear next to the Date Range field (which will be renamed as Date Range #1). Select the + Date Range link to create another Date Range field. Any date ranges you add beyond the first will have a trash can icon near the upper-right corner—select it to delete that date range.
    In this example, the report has four date ranges. The Date Range link is to the right of the last range.

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

    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.
  9. To the right of the benchmark type, use the Sort by drop-down list to choose how to sort the data in the report. The available options will change based on what you chose in the Group By drop-down list earlier:
    • If you are grouping by students, you can sort by students, years, or classes/groups.
    • If you are grouping by classes/groups, you can sort by classes/groups, years, or teachers.
    • If you are grouping by years, you cannot sort the data (the Sort by drop-down list will not be shown).
  10. Tick Hide [Students / Groups / Years] Without Data if you want to have students/groups/years without test data omitted from the report (the label for the tick box will change based on the Group By option you have chosen).
  11. Once you are done choosing report options, select Update Report.

  12. The report will generate and then open at the bottom of the page. The view will differ based on how you grouped the students in step 6.
    • If you grouped by student, each student's data will be in its own graph and table.
      An example report for a single student. The student has taken four Star tests during the chosen date range. The scores are shown in a graph on the top and a table below. The graph shows how the test scores relate to benchmarks; a trend line is also included. The table includes additional test score data; the types of data will vary based on the kind of test taken.
      For each student, a graph describes the student's annual progress. Every test the student takes is added to the graph. The color of the circle shows which benchmark category the test score placed the student in.

      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 same data is presented in a table: you will see the assignments/tests the students completed within the selected date range that match the selected assignment type (see step 2).
    • If you grouped by classes/groups or by years, the average (mean) scores for each group or year will be in their own graph and table.
      An example report with data grouped by classes or groups. The average test scores for the group during the chosen date ranges are shown in the graph and table. The graph includes a trend line. The table includes additional test score data; the types of data will vary based on the kind of test taken.
      For each class/group or year, you will see the assignments/tests they completed within the selected date range that match the selected assignment type (see step 1).

      notes on the scores

      • When the average Scaled Score is calculated for a group of students or year, the Rasch scores are averaged first; that average is then converted to the average Scaled Score for the group or year. This method is more accurate than using each student's individual Scaled Score for the calculation.
      • If you selected a scale earlier, the score in the SS column is shown in that scale.
  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 screen: .
  15. 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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