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Consolidated Summary Report

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The Consolidated Summary Report summarises scores for one Star product.

How do I get to this page?

  1. Log in to Renaissance.
  2. 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.)

  3. On the Administrator tab on the Reports page, under “Customisable Reports,” select Consolidated Summary Report.

Who can do this with default user permissions?

School Networks Level Administrators, School Networks Dashboard Owners, School Networks Staff, School Level Administrators, School Staff

  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 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.

    Examples of the pop-up windows that appear when the Schools or Classes links are selected. In each case, a search field at the top lets you search for specific schools or classes; a box above the listed schools or classes 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 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.

  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 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
  6. 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.

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


    If the selected subject is Maths, you will not need to select a scale (Star Unified Scale is the only one available and will be automatically selected).

    Use the Average Type drop-down list to choose if you want to see mean (average) scores or median scores.

    Tick Hide Sections Without Data if you want to omit sections of the report that have no data in them.
  8. Once you are done choosing report options, select Update Report.

  9. 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:

      The message states: 'This report is still generating. Very large reports could take about an hour depending on site traffic. Rather not wait?' The 'Skip screen view and return later for a PDF' button is at the bottom.

      ... 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.
  10. Once the report is generated, it opens at the bottom of the page. The view will differ based on how you grouped the students in step 5—the example below is grouped by school network, then schools.
    In this example report, three tables are shown: one showing data for each school in the school network, one showing Percentile Rank distribution throughout the school network, and Reading Age distribution throughout the school network.
    The summary of the scores for the chosen Star product are shown. Each class's mean or median Percentile Rank is used to give them an overall ranking (in the Rank column). The bottom row of the table shows the mean or median scores for all of the selected students.

    Beneath the main table is a PR distribution summary. If the chosen subject is Reading, a Reading Age (RA) distribution summary is also shown.

    When the average Scaled Score is calculated for a group of students, the Rasch scores are averaged first; that average is then converted to the average Scaled Score for the group. This method is more accurate than using each student's individual Scaled Score for the calculation.

  11. You can change any of the options you have selected and then regenerate the report by selecting Update Report.
  12. If the report is more than one page long, use the Previous, Next, and page number links at the bottom () to navigate between pages.
  13. 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.
  14. 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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