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Standards Mastery - Class Report

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The Standards Mastery - Class Report shows you the levels of mastery that students in a class have achieved in relation to the standards for their year group for the English National Curriculum, based on the students' most recent Star assessments. It also gives you a prediction of what students' mastery levels will be at the end of the school year. 

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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 / Assessments tab of the Reports page, under “Performance and Mastery,” select Standards Mastery - Class 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 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).
  2. Use the Students drop-down list to select a class at the chosen school.

    • School administrators and school staff can only select a class in their own school.
    • Teachers can only select one of 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 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 a class, groups, or students in their own school.
    • Teachers can only select one of 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.
  3. Use the Subject drop-down list to select the subject you want to see mastery data for. The chosen subject determines what types of assessment data are used to calculate mastery:
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    Subject Assessment Data Used Type
    Reading Star Reading Enterprise and Star Early Literacy
    Maths Star Maths Enterprise
  4. 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 or screening window, or you can select Custom... and set your own dates. 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 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.

  5. After the overall report has been created, you can also create reports for individual students; if you tick Show Student ID for Student View, the student's ID will be included in that report.
  6. After you have made your choices, select Update Report.

    If you change the students the report is being created for, you will need to select Update Report again to make the data refresh.

  7. Each table in the report focuses on a single domain group. The domains in that group are listed at the top of the table, and abbreviated versions of the standards belonging to each domain are shown underneath. You can hover on a standard to see a complete description of it. Note that the skills shown are based on the learning standards chosen for your school network.

    A shortened domain description with the cursor hovering over it. A larger pop-up is open above it, giving the complete number and description of the domain.
  8. In the row for each student, you can see the student's level of mastery for each standard, based on the student's most recent assessment in the selected date range (based on the chosen subject). Note that these are not test scores: they represent the level of mastery the student has for each standard:     Beginning (0–59% mastery),     Developing (60–79% mastery), or     Secure (80–100% mastery).

    Sample chart
    The data for four students is shown in a table. Each student's scores for different reading domains are shown, with a number and colored background indicating the student's level of mastery for that domain. The third student has not taken an assessment, so the row is blank for that student.

    If the table is too wide to fit the screen, a scrollbar will appear below it.

    If a cell in the table shows two dashes ( -- ), it means the student did not get any questions related to that standard in any assessments taken within the school year.

    If a row in the table says "No assessment data available," it means the student has not taken any assessments of the type being shown in the report yet.

  9. To view projected mastery data, select the Projected Mastery toggle above the upper-right corner of the first table to turn it On. Each table cell with a current mastery value will have an estimated mastery value for the end of the school year added to it, in a circle to the right (the background color of the circle will correlate to the Beginning/Developing/Secure percentages). The values are research-based: 50% of students with the current scores are expected to reach the estimated values by the end of the school year.
    In this example, the Projected Mastery toggle has been switched on. Student's mastery scores for domains are followed by circles, with numbers and colors indicating end-of-year projected mastery for the student in that domain. For example, for the domain 'Decode multisyllable words,' one student has a score of 72 on a yellow background, meaning the student is developing mastery in that domain. Next to that score is a circle with a green background with an 80 in it, meaning that by the end of the school year, this student is predicted to have a score of 80, or secure mastery, of that domain.
  10. Printing works a little differently for this report compared to others. When you select in the upper-right corner, you can select one of two options:

    • Generate PDF of the current screen: This will create a PDF of all the tables on the screen, which you can then view or download. If a table is too wide to fit on a page, the overflow columns will break to a "continued" table beneath it.
      An example of a wide table in a PDF, which has had several table columns broken down to a new line.

      If one of the selected classes has students from multiple years in it, multiple tabs will open during the PDF creation process. You will need to allow pop-ups in order for the reports to generate and print correctly.

    • Generate PDF of individual student mastery: This creates a PDF with separate reports for each student, with page breaks between the students. In each report, full descriptions of the standards are listed, along with the students' mastery level for each.

    • You can also select the Download Data button above the first chart in the report to to download a CSV (comma-separated values) version of the report that you can open in a spreadsheet program:
      The Download Data button.
    You can get reports for individual students by selecting the student's name. The PDF created is the same as the second one described above, but it will only show mastery data for the selected student.

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    When projected mastery is turned On and a PDF for a single student is created, the PDF will include current and projected scores.

    We recommend printing one of these reports at the start of the school year after your students have taken their first Star assessment(s). This will give you an initial "milestone" that you can compare subsequent mastery levels to later in the school year.

    If you would like a hard copy of all the KS2 SATs standards (for reference purposes), print a PDF for a single student and then cut off the top and right sides:

    An illustration of a PDF, with dashed lines indicating which parts can be cut off to create a hard copy of all KS2 SATs standards.

  11. 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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