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Star Screening Report

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The Star Screening Report graphs students' placement above and below benchmarks based on Star scores. It is used to identify students who are having difficulty reaching benchmarks. Once those students have been identified, you can begin to organize your intervention plan. Students who are not reaching a specific benchmark can be further divided into groups to help you focus your resources on the students who need the most help.

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 Math.
  3. In the drop down-list, select Reports.

    A Star pop-up list on the home page; the Reports link is selected.
  4. On the Star / Assessment tab on the Reports page, under “Screening and Instructional Planning,” select Star Screening Report.

    The Star Screening Report thumbnail.

Who can do this with default user permissions?

District Level Administrators, District Dashboard Owners, District 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:
    The Subject and Assessment Types drop-down lists.
    Subject Available Assessment Type
    Reading Star Reading Enterprise
    Reading Star Early Literacy
    Reading Star Reading Progress Monitoring
    Reading 3rd Grade Reading Proficiency Assessment
    Reading Spanish Star Reading Spanish
    Reading Spanish Star Early Literacy Spanish
    Math Star Math Enterprise
    Math Star Math Progress Monitoring
    Math Star Math Algebra
    Math Star Math Geometry
    Math Spanish Star Math Spanish. Note: You will not need to select an assessment type; Star Math Spanish is the only assessment type and will automatically be chosen.
  2. Use the School drop-down list to select a school.
    One school being selected from the School drop-down list.
    • 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.
    All Classes being selected from the Students drop-down list.
    • 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, check 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, district- and school-level users can select a grade 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 check 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 district- and school-level users can specify a single grade 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 Change Demographics... (or Choose Demographics...)

    The Change Demographics button.


    By default, the "All" option is chosen for Ethnicity, Gender, Language, and Grade Level. To reduce the scope, choose the "Select" option at the top of the appropriate column and then check your selections in that column.
    All ethnicities, all genders, two languages (English and Hmong), and three grade levels (grades 2, 3, and 4) have been selected.

    In the example above, the user has selected two Languages and three Grade 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 check 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.

    Two characteristics have been selected. The Apply and Cancel buttons are at the bottom.
    In the example above, the user selected two Characteristics (ADA and ESL). Because any is selected, the report will include students who are ADA, ESL, or both. If all had been selected, only students who are both ADA and ESL 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 drop-down list to choose how you want the information in the report to be grouped: by classes/groups or grades. Use the Screening Window drop-down list to choose the dates you want to generate the report for (custom dates or an existing screening window). If you select Custom, use the calendars to select a range of dates or type them in the fields using m/d/yyyy format; then select Apply to use the dates you have chosen or Cancel to close this pop-up without saving your selection.

    The Group By and Screening Window drop-down lists. The pop-up calendar for custom dates is open, with the Apply and Cancel buttons in the upper-right corner.

    If schools use their own unique date ranges within a district 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.

    Three Fall screening windows, with three different date ranges to differentiate them (9/1 to 9/10, 9/10 to 9/20, and 9/20 to 9/30).

  6. If necessary, use the Scale drop-down list to choose which scale you want to use for the scores on the report.

    Use the Benchmark Type drop-down list to choose which benchmark you want to measure students' scores against. Note: For Star Early Literacy, Star Early Literacy Spanish, Star Math Spanish, and Star Reading Spanish, the State benchmark is not available.

    The Scale and Benchmark Type drop-down lists.

    notes on the scales and benchmarks

    • A student's Scaled Score and benchmark placement are calculated from a Rasch score. Individual Scaled Scores are associated with a range of Rasch scores, so there may be (rare) minor differences between a student's Scaled Score and their benchmark placement.
    • The Lexile® Scale will not be a selectable option if the report is being run for Star Early Literacy Spanish, Star Math English, or Star Math Spanish.
    • The Star Enterprise scale is only available in Mississippi; however, if the Star Scale Transition Preference is set to Show Unified Scale Only for sites in Mississippi, the Star Enterprise Scale will not be an option in this list.
    • You can search for your state's linking study in the Renaissance Research Library.
    • For states where Renaissance has completed linking studies with end of course (EOC) assessments, the EOC cut scores will be an available Benchmark Type when the selected Assignment Type is Star Math Enterprise (English).
  7. Check Static State 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. It uses the actual cut scores aligned to the state test levels (no time adjustment). If this option is not checked, the report will show if students are on track by using current, time adjusted cut scores to better account for student learning that is yet to occur before the state test date arrives (this option only appears if State is chosen as the Benchmark Type).

    For customers in Florida, if State is the chosen Benchmark Type and Static State Benchmark is checked, an additional option will be available: Show FAST Score (Grades K-2). Checking this option will include FAST scores on the report for students in grades K–2; dashes will be shown for students outside of those grades.

    The Show FAST Score check box.


    Check Show Grade Equivalent if you want Grade Equivalent scores to be included on the report.

    Check Show Testing Location if you want the report to show whether students tested at the school or remotely.

    Check Show Student ID to include student IDs in the report. (Note: For customers in Florida, this option will be Show FLEID.)

    Check Hide Groups Without Data if you want to have groups without any data omitted from the report.
    The check boxes described above.
  8. Once you are done choosing report options, select Update Report.

    The Update Report button.
  9. The report will generate and then open at the bottom of the page. The first part of the report summarizes the data for an entire class in a chart and a table.
    An example report. The chart at the top shows which benchmark categories the students in the class are in. The table at the bottom gives a detailed summary of the students' scores, and tells how many students have and have not tested, and how many tested remotely and at school.
    • For each of the selected classes, you can see how many students have and have not tested, how many of them tested remotely or at school (if you selected that option earlier; "N/A" means either the students' tests were taken before this tracking feature was added to the program or your school/district is not tracking this information), and how many of them are above and below the benchmark category which was set as the minimum proficiency level (defined by the default district benchmark setting and the structure of those benchmarks, or by the state benchmark if you chose Static State Benchmark earlier).
    • You can also see the cut scores (Scaled Scores and Percentile Ranks) that define the benchmark categories.
    • If you have selected State for the benchmark type (in step 6), the Current Benchmark column will change to Static State Benchmark (showing what the cut scores were when the tests were taken) and Percentile Ranks will not be shown:

      The Static State Benchmark column is shown instead of Current Benchmark.
    • Beneath the table is a recommendation on how to interpret this data.
  10. Beneath the initial graph and table, the data is further broken down based on the benchmark categories. You will see the students that fall into each benchmark category, the date of their most recent test, and several scores based on that test (the scores shown will vary based on the assignment type—the examples below show scores from a Star Reading Enterprise assessment).

    The second group of tables, where each benchmark category has its own table, including the students who are in those categories. Additional test scores and test-taking data for each student are shown.

    notes on the scores

    • If you selected a scale earlier, the score in the SS column is shown in that scale.
    • If the following conditions are met: then the Lexile® range will be shown instead of the ZPD.
    • If the report is for Star Math Enterprise (English) or Star Math Progress Monitoring (English) assessments and the Quantile® measure preference has been set to show Quantile® Measures, the report will show Quantile® measures. (At this time, Quantile® Measures are not available for Star Math Spanish, Star Math Algebra, or Star Math Geometry assessments.)
    • Students who have taken a Star Early Literacy Spanish, Star Math Spanish, or Star Reading Spanish assessment and have not been placed in a benchmark category will be listed in a "No Benchmark Data Available" table:

      An additional No Benchmark Data Available category added to the report.
    • Students that have taken a test outside of the selected dates will not be included on this report. If you are not seeing a student on this report but they are appearing on others, please double-check the dates they were tested.
  11. You can change any of the options you have selected and then regenerate the report by selecting Update Report.
  12. 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 version of the report. You can also select the Download Data button above the first table in the report to create a CSV version of the report that you can open in a spreadsheet program.

    csv notes

    For customers in Florida, the name of the Student ID column in the CSV file will be FLEID.

  13. To return to the Reports page, select either Back to Reports or the report icon    at the top of the page.
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