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Star Student Report

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Use the Star Student Report to help students understand their performance: how where they are relates to where they need to be. It also gives teachers an opportunity to motivate and encourage their students.

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 “Parent and Other Reports,” select Star Student Report.

Who can do this with default user permissions?

School Network Level Administrators, School Network Staff, School Level Administrators, School Staff, Teachers

  1. On the Star Student Report page, use the Assessment Types drop-down list to choose one Star product to create the report for.
  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.

    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. Dates will be in the current school year. You can select the entire school year (which will include the entire school year up to the current date—this is the default setting), an existing marking period, or custom dates within 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.
  6. Use the Scale drop-down list to choose which scale to use when showing student test scores.
  7. Use the Benchmark Type drop-down list to choose which benchmarks will be shown on the report (KS2 SATs [UK] or NAPLAN [AU], School Network, or School).
  8. Tick any of the remaining options you wish to use before generating the report:
    The tick boxes and options described below. The Update Report button is below them.
    • Static KS2 SATs Benchmark to show how students are expected to perform on the end-of-school-year test if taken on the date of their Star test (this option only appears if KS2 SATs is chosen as the Benchmark Type).
    • Show Domain Scores to show students' domain scores in the learning progression domains.
    • Show SGP to include Student Growth Percentiles.
    • Show Student ID to include student ID numbers.
    • Show Reading Range to show student's reading range (ZPD or Lexile®). Note: This option only applies to Reading products; if Star Maths was chosen earlier, this option will not be shown
    • Show Useful Terms to Know to include a list of terms and their definitions on the report.
    • Hide Students without Data to exclude students without any test data from the report.
  9. When you are finished selecting the options you want, select Update Report.
  10. The data shown on the report will vary based on the options you have selected; the following example shows data for a student's Star Reading assessments.
    An example report for a student's Star Reading assessments.
    • The top part shows the student's name, ID (if that option was selected), most recent test date, year, school, and the subject for the chosen product.
    • Below that is the score of the student's most recent test (on the selected scale), the benchmark category that score puts them in, and their Percentile Rank. Also shown (if the relevant options were selected) are the student's Reading Range (ZPD) and the student's SGP (with a bar chart indicating if the student's growth is considered Low [SGP 0–33], Typical [SGP 34–66], or High [SGP 66–99]).

      notes on national benchmarks

      • The Benchmark Category Level will be shown by the Scaled Score. If KS2 SATs was chosen for the Benchmark Type, that will be the name shown by the Scaled Score:
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      • Additionally, if KS2 SATs was chosen for the Benchmark Type and the Static KS2 SATs Benchmark option was selected earlier, the dashed line shown on the chart represents what the benchmark will be at the time of the KS2 SATs test; there will be a diamond on the line corresponding to each of the student’s tests for easy comparison. The testing windows are shaded in the chart, and tests in the table are sorted first by the testing windows, then by date.
        An example graph, where KS2 SATs was the chosen benchmark and Static KS2 SATs Benchmark was a selected option. A dashed line runs horizontally across the graph.
    • Next is a record of the student's test activity: all tests taken with the selected product within the chosen dates are included. The data is shown as both a table and a graph.
    • Domain scores and the student's level of mastery in those domains (Beginning [0–59 percent], Developing [60–79 percent], or Secure [80–100 percent]) are shown at the bottom if that option was selected.
    • Finally, the useful terms to know are listed if that option was selected.
  11. You can change any of the options you have chosen and select Update Report to regenerate the report.
  12. Select the PDF icon at the top of the page or the Print or Save button above the first student's report to create a PDF of the reports.
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