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Star Diagnostic Report

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The Star Diagnostic Report presents diagnostic and skill information for an individual student.

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 “Performance and Mastery,” select Star Diagnostic 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 Types 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 Assessment Types
    Reading Star Reading Enterprise
    Reading Star Early Literacya
    Maths Star Maths Enterprise
    a. If you select Reading as the subject and Star Early Literacy as the assessment type, an additional drop-down list (Domains to Show) will appear to the right; use it to select which literacy domains to show on the report.
  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, enter search criteria in the field at the top of the window to find specific classes, groups, or students with names that start with the criteria you enter (in the "Select Students" pop-up window, school network- and school-level users can select a year to narrow down the list of students). Once you have searched, tick the box at the top of the list to select all the available choices, or make individual selections below it.
    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.

    • 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.
    • Select the arrow in the heading of a column to re-sort by the data in that column. The arrow indicates which column is being used for sorting and the order of the sort: up arrow = A–Z, down arrow = Z–A).

    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.

    Note that this report uses data from the most recent assessment during the chosen date range (not all of them).

  6. Use the Sort Students By drop-down list to choose how you want students to be sorted in the report: by classes/groups, year, or last name.
  7. 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 does not apply to the selected assessment type, the default scale for that assessment 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.
  9. To the right of the Benchmark Type drop-down list, tick Show Domain Scores to include domain scores in the report.

    If you selected Star Early Literacy as the assessment type in step 1, Show Domain Scores will be replaced with Show Benchmark Bar Chart; select it if you want to see the benchmark bar chart on the report.

  10. Below the Scale and Benchmark Type drop-down lists:
    • Tick Show Student ID to include student IDs on the report.
    • Tick Hide Students Without Data if you want to have students without test data omitted from the report.
  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.

    Example report: Star Reading—The example shown below is for a Star Reading Enterprise assessment. It includes Scaled Score (and the benchmark category it falls into—the benchmark type is shown at the top), Percentile Rank and Percentile Rank Range, Student Growth Percentile (SGP), Reading Age, and Norm Reference Standardised Score. Because of the option selected in step 9, the domain scores are also included. Since this is a Star Reading Enterprise assessment, the Zone of Proximal Development is also shown (below the domain scores).

    An example Star Reading report. The scores from the student's most recent test are shown, along with the score's location on the benchmark bar chart. At the bottom are the domain scores, reading recommendations, and information about the test's duration and fidelity.

    Example report: Star Early Literacy—The example shown below is for a Star Early Literacy assessment. It includes the Lexile® measure instead of a Scaled Score (in this example, Lexile® Scale was selected as the scale), Estimated Oral Reading Fluency, Literacy Classification, and information about the test duration and fidelity. Below that are the sub-domain and skill set scores.

    An example Star Early Literacy report. The scores from the student's most recent test are shown, along with Estimated Oral Reading Fluency, Literacy Classification, and the test's duration. At the bottom are the sub-domain and skill set scores.

    For each student, you will see the date and time of their last completed assessment (of the type you selected earlier). The scores related to that assessment are shown below—they will vary based on the assessment type. Note that for the domain scores, the skills shown are based on the learning standards chosen for your school network.

    You may see one of these messages about the student's test performance in the "Test Duration & Fidelity" section:
    • Non-Reader: A non-reader is a student who took a Star Reading Enterprise assessment and got a Unified Scaled Score lower than 615. For lower-year students, you may want to retest them with Star Early Literacy and/or work on developing a sight-reading vocabulary of at least 100 words before retesting in Star Reading. A score this low may indicate that the student was randomly choosing test responses; consider retesting the student and observing them during the assessment.
    • Short/Long Test Time: The student spent significantly less/more time taking the test than expected. This message appears based on the following testing times:
      Test “Short Test Time” Message Triggered “Long Test Time” Message Triggered
      Star Early Literacy Not applicable. More than 35 minutes
      Star Reading Enterprise Less than 10 minutes More than 40 minutes
      Star Maths Enterprise Less than 10 minutes More than 40 minutes

    notes on the scores

    • The score in the Scaled Score section is shown in the scale you selected earlier.
    • If the following conditions are met:
      then the Lexile® range will be shown instead of the ZPD.
    • Students in year 13 who have only taken Star Maths Enterprise assessments will not see domain scores on the Diagnostic Report. When students move on to year 13, the material studied is generally outside of the domains that are assessed in Star Maths. For that reason, we do not report on domains, as they are typically covered prior to this year.

    • If the report is for Star Early Literacy, the layout will be slightly different (to accommodate the presence of literacy domains).

      Skill sets with a blue arrow next to them are the skill sets the student is ready to learn, based on the student's Scaled Score. If a number less than 40 is displayed for a skill set, it means either that the student was not presented with any test items that measure that skill or that the skill is too advanced for the student to learn at this time.

      The alternative layout for the report is shown, with test results and domain scores laid out in tables instead of panels.

  13. You can change any of the options you have selected and then regenerate the report by selecting Update Report.
  14. Select the PDF icon at the top of the page or the Print or Save button above the first table in the report to create a PDF of the report. You can also select the Download Data button above the first table in the report to download a CSV (comma-separated values) version of the report that you can open in a spreadsheet program.
    The Print or Save and Download Data buttons.
  15. To return to the Reports page, select the navigator icon at the top of the page: .
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