Star Assessments

Whether you’re teaching in-person, remotely, or a blend of both, use the most comprehensive K–12 interim and formative assessment suite available—universal screening, progress monitoring, and goal-setting data to move every student forward.

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Comprehensive reporting

Essential insights into your students’ learning

Visualize

Interactive data visualizations provide leaders with an enhanced view of Star’s district reporting for more powerful insights. Dig deeper into your data than ever before using Renaissance Analytics’ multiple filters, demographic comparisons, and longitudinal views.

Screen

Make the most of instructional time by knowing who is performing above or at benchmark and who may need additional support or intervention. See valid, reliable data immediately after testing.

Know how students are performing against school, district, or state benchmarks so you can prioritize needs and allocate resources more effectively.

Set goals

Take the guesswork out of setting the right goals to motivate and engage every student. An embedded, research-based goal-setting tool helps teachers set reasonable, attainable goals.

Confidently move students forward with a goal-setting tool complete with step-by-step directions and an intuitive user interface.

Monitor progress

Monitor students’ progress toward goals throughout the school year. Know if students in RTI/MTSS are responding to intervention in time to adjust instruction.

See which students are meeting their goals and determine if students are responding to intervention with easy-to-interpret reports.

Track standards mastery

See who is on track to perform well on your state’s summative assessments. Renaissance dashboards show a unified measure of skill mastery based on your state’s standards.

Data from Star Assessments, along with instruction and practice activities, combine to provide a single, comprehensive view of student progress and growth.

Data from Star Assessments, along with instruction and practice activities, combine to provide a continuous measure to keep students on track to success in your state.

Predict performance

Imagine no more surprises on high-stakes tests! Star Assessments, statistically linked to each state’s summative test, are highly accurate predictors of students’ performance.

State performance reports show which students may be at risk for not meeting state proficiency requirements in time to adjust instruction.

See student growth

Monitor achievement and growth with one report. Student Growth Percentile (SGP) scores show you precisely how much students are growing, showcasing changes in scores between testing events.

Knowing scores increased is not enough. The Star Growth Report uses growth norms and SGP to show if growth was below, above, or on par with expectations.

How it works

Why Star is quick and accurate

Computer-adaptive testing

Star Assessments are computer-adaptive tests, meaning each student’s testing experience is unique. For new students, Star starts at grade level—or at the level set by their teacher. For returning students, Star picks up at the level they left off.

Automatic adjustments

When a student answers a question correctly, Star automatically selects a more difficult item to be the next question. When a student answers a question incorrectly, the opposite occurs and the next item is less difficult than the current one.

No repetition

The system understands how skills relate to one another—and that a student correctly answering advanced items doesn’t need to be tested separately on the basic component skills. For example, a student who aces complex algebra questions won’t see items testing basic addition skills.

Accurate results

By adapting to students and eliminating unnecessary questions, Star can accurately measure student performance and growth with fewer items and less time. Complete results are immediately available for educators via interactive, easy-to-read reports.

A Closer Look

Dive deeper into Star

ACT & SAT

Star data is linked to the ACT and SAT college entrance exams. You’ll know as early as sixth grade which students are on track for meeting college expectations.

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SGP

In addition to achievement, Star measures growth via a Student Growth Percentile. Learn what SGP is, how it’s measured, and why it matters.

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Learning progressions

Star leverages empirically validated learning progressions to help you keep all students on track for your state’s grade-level standards.

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Approvals

Star has been approved by more than two dozen states as a sole assessment solution or as part of an approved list.

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We’ve moved from a focus on teaching to a focus on learning. What are our students learning? Star Assessments are the vehicle that has let us implement that idea.

Mary Jo Podratsky • Principal, Divine Mercy Catholic Academy

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