The Consolidated Assessment Proficiency Report provides statistics on the number and percentage of students who did and did not participate in Star assessments and the number who are proficient based on the value you select. You can use this report to identify sub-groups of students who need help and to anticipate achievement on upcoming state tests.
How do I get to this page?
- Log in to Renaissance.
- On the Home page, select Reports; in the drop-down list, select Administrator. (Note: If you would normally only have access to administrator reports, there will be no drop-down list; selecting Reports will take you directly to the Administrator tab.)
- On the Administrator tab on the Reports page, under “Customisable Reports,” select Consolidated Assessment Proficiency 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
- Use the Subject and Assessment Types drop-down lists to choose the assessment types to include in the report. Note: Only Enterprise assessments are included in this report. The assessment types available will change depending on the subject chosen:
Subject Assessment Types Reading Star Early Literacy Reading Star Reading Maths Star Maths If you select Maths as the subject, you will not need to select an assessment type (Star Maths Enterprise is the only assessment type for that subject).
- Use the Students drop-down list to select either a single school or choose All Schools to select all the schools in the school network.
- School administrators and school staff can only select their own schools.
To select specific schools or classes, 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 school or class.
- School administrators and school staff can only select their own schools or classes in their own schools.
Once you have made your choices, select Save Selection at the bottom of the pop-up window. -
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.
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).
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. - Use the Proficiency Type drop-down list to choose which score you want to use to measure student proficiency: Percentile Rank (PR), Student Growth Percentile (SGP), or NRSS (Norm-Referenced Standardised Score). These scores range from 1–99; use the At/Above Proficiency Score drop-down list to set the cutoff score for proficiency.
If you select Student Growth Percentile (SGP), the procedure for selecting the time frame the report covers differs from what is described in step 6 below.
- Use the School Year drop-down list to choose which school year you want to see data for: the current year or a prior school year.
- After selecting a school year, use the Timeframe drop-down list to narrow the time span further.
- To view SGPs from within the selected school year, choose the testing windows under "Current or Selected Year" that you want to measure growth between: Autumn to Spring, Autumn to Summer, or Spring to Summer.
- To view SGPs between the selected school year and the school year before it, choose the testing windows under "Compare to Previous Year": Summer to Autumn, Autumn to Autumn, or Summer to Summer.
- To view current SGPs for students, select Latest Test (Current SGP). Current SGP will be calculated for students who have taken at least two tests in different testing windows, using the most recent test in the past 18 months and a test from a previous window. Note: Selecting this option will cause the School Year drop-down list to be removed, as it is no longer necessary.
See the help for SGP for more information.
- Use the School Year drop-down list to choose which school year you want to see data for: the current year or a prior school year.
- Use the Group By and Then list drop-down lists to determine how the data in the report should be arranged.
The Group By choice you make hierarchically determines the Then list options available. For example, if you choose to group by Teachers, you can only list by Classes or Students.
For some customers in larger school networks, the options in the Group By and Then list drop-down lists are limited to the following:
Group By Then list School Network Schools School Network Years Schools Years - If you did not select SGP as the proficiency type earlier, 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.
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.
- Under the Group By drop-down list, tick Hide Sections Without Data if you want sections of the report without test data to be omitted.
- Once you are done choosing report options, select Update Report.
- What happens next depends on the complexity of the report and the amount of data being compiled to create it.
- In most cases, a "loading..." message will appear while the report is being created:
... and then the report will open on the screen (skip ahead to step 10). - In some cases, a "Generate Report" message will appear. When this happens, you can either wait for the report to be completed (skip ahead to step 10), or you can select Skip screen view & return later for a PDF to leave this screen.
You will go to the "My Created Reports" tab—a " Generating PDF" message in the Actions column means the report in that row is still being generated. (Refresh this page or return to it later to see status updates.)
When the report is ready, select Download PDF in the Actions column to download the report as a PDF file. (You can skip the remaining steps below.) Completed reports will remain available for 14 months after they are created.
- In most cases, a "loading..." message will appear while the report is being created:
- Once the report is generated, it opens at the bottom of the page. The view will differ based on how you grouped and listed the students in step 5—in the example below, the data is grouped by Classes, then listed by Students.
In the example above, since the data is listed by student, each individual student's participation rate and proficiency level is shown.
If different options had been selected in step 5 (for instance, group by Schools, then list by Teachers), the average participation rates and proficiency levels would be given, as shown below:
Regardless of whether you are viewing data for the current school year or prior school years, the students’ current year will be shown on the report (this includes CSV versions of the report; see below).
- You can change any of the options you have selected and then regenerate the report by selecting Update Report.
- If the report is more than one page long, use the Previous, Next, and page number links at the bottom () to navigate between pages.
- 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.
- To return to the Reports page, select either Back to Reports or the report icon at the top of the screen.