Mercer Mettl Coding Assessments vs. Renaissance Star Assessments

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Mercer Mettl Coding Assessments
Score 9.0 out of 10
Mid-Size Companies (51-1,000 employees)
Mercer | Mettl's Integrated Coding Assessment Platform, along with its suite of digital tools (categorized as Mercer | Mettl Hack) is used to hire and develop the best coders and build high performing coding teams. Mercer Mettl Hack aims to enable organizations to hire, skill and engage coding talent.…N/A
Renaissance Star Assessments
Score 9.1 out of 10
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Star Assessments are a suite of assessments for reading, math, and early literacy, in both English and Spanish, boasting users among over 30,000 schools. Star Assessments helps educators to gain accurate insights into student learning, growth, and achievement—so they can help all learners reach their full potential. The full Star Assessment suite includes the computer-adaptive Star Reading (K–12), Star Math (K–12), and Star Early Literacy (pre-K–3) assessments; a formative assessment tool, Star…N/A
Pricing
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Free Trial
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Free/Freemium Version
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Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional DetailsCustomized Pricing as per the client's requirement
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User Ratings
Mercer Mettl Coding AssessmentsRenaissance Star Assessments
Likelihood to Recommend
9.0
(1 ratings)
9.1
(71 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
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(0 ratings)
9.1
(9 ratings)
Usability
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(0 ratings)
9.1
(9 ratings)
Availability
-
(0 ratings)
8.2
(2 ratings)
Performance
-
(0 ratings)
8.2
(2 ratings)
Support Rating
-
(0 ratings)
9.1
(15 ratings)
Online Training
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(0 ratings)
7.3
(1 ratings)
Implementation Rating
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8.2
(4 ratings)
Configurability
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(0 ratings)
9.1
(2 ratings)
Ease of integration
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(0 ratings)
8.8
(3 ratings)
Product Scalability
-
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8.2
(2 ratings)
Vendor post-sale
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8.2
(2 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale
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8.2
(2 ratings)
User Testimonials
Mercer Mettl Coding AssessmentsRenaissance Star Assessments
Likelihood to Recommend
Mercer Mettl
It is well suited for doing a pre screening of candidates on certain assessments. Whenever you post a requirement, you get lot of applications, so the initial screening on the technical skills can be done by giving them a skilled assessment, which will help us to filter candidates better and this also saves the time of the actual interviews as they would get better screened candidates.
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Renaissance Learning
Renaissance Star Assessments are great for students who already know English and know how to use a device, especially a tablet. The children can listen to the question, choose an answer, then move on to the next question. These assessments are less appropriate for students learning English as a second language. Since the questions are in English, and most students primarily speak another language, they do not understand the questions and get many of them wrong. As a result, they score low and it appears as if the child has not been learning when in fact the low score is due to a language barrier. I think there should also be some type of block to choosing an answer until after the question is presented because some children like to press answers before the question is finished and then try to move on. I think having the answers be unclickable before the question is finished would be a benefit for the children to pay more attention to the question.
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Pros
Mercer Mettl
  • Coding challenges selection based on skill sets
  • MCQ selection from the library based on skill sets
  • Adding marks for each question
  • Ordering the questions in the assessment
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Renaissance Learning
  • Renaissance Star Assessments gives me a look at each student as an overall reader.
  • Renaissance Star Assessments shows me the areas of which my students are struggling.
  • Renaissance Star Assessments is linked with Nearpod, so I can assign lessons based on what each student needs.
  • Star CBM helps me see whether my students' fluency is improving or not.
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Cons
Mercer Mettl
  • Improve more library questions
  • Provide ease to add additional questions
  • Integration with other tools
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Renaissance Learning
  • The graphs for each subject are not consistently the same. (ie. some graphs are by 5s and some are by 50s.) It's very confusing to read them.
  • The questions are not rigorous enough for state standards.
  • Different reports will show data that does not align. If 'state' is chosen, then all reports should show the same data. The Parent Report will show the child in 'green', but every sub-skill is in 'red'. That is super confusing for parents and teachers.
  • All reports should be based on the same score, but they are not. It is like comparing apples to oranges on the same child.
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Likelihood to Renew
Mercer Mettl
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Renaissance Learning
Star Assessments and Renaissance is the best educational products at this time. They are found worldwide, easy to use and informational for districts teachers and families. Information will follow a student if they change districts and give previous information to new districts and teachers
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Usability
Mercer Mettl
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Renaissance Learning
It is very user friendly and intuitive. I have had minimal training on the system and was able to access many of the features. I was able to easily create student accounts and set up testing for our students. I was able to find appropriate reports that provide the right data for our team and our parents.
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Reliability and Availability
Mercer Mettl
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Renaissance Learning
It’s wonderful
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Performance
Mercer Mettl
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Renaissance Learning
I absolutely love this program
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Support Rating
Mercer Mettl
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Renaissance Learning
I have been very happy with the support. By phone or email I have found the support very good and they get back to me quickly. This survey however is wa6 overdone, expecting me to come up with 50 words on each question. It becomes very repetitive and very laborious.
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Online Training
Mercer Mettl
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Renaissance Learning
I just feel this way.
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Implementation Rating
Mercer Mettl
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Renaissance Learning
When presenters show us how to use the program they need to have a full class size of data. During training, there were only 5 or 6 sample students. Classes are more like 25 and that makes the training more realistic to have similar data to what we will use.
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Alternatives Considered
Mercer Mettl
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Renaissance Learning
Renaissance Star Math Assessment provided a proven data collection tool. This was also being used at the lower grades in our district, so it made sense to continue with its use to provide a more reliable and accurate picture of our students entering the middle school. The continuation of the data trail should continue to help their overall growth.
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Scalability
Mercer Mettl
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Renaissance Learning
Great overall program with lots of advice in implementation
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Return on Investment
Mercer Mettl
  • It helped us to pre screen candidates based on their skill sets
  • Helps to reduce time in talent hiring
  • Helps to streamline your talent process
  • Reduces wastage of time of the interviewer by giving them proper pre screened candidates
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Renaissance Learning
  • It has positively impacted student time to learn by reducing testing times and allowing more time for instruction
  • The reduced testing time also positively impacted our schools by freeing the computer labs and making the planning and creation of testing schedules easier. This has allowed more computer lab use for education and learning.
  • It has negatively impacted the time and effort required by support staff, administrators, and some teachers by requiring more time spent on looking up results or going to multiple spots and manually combining results because a larger group couldn't easily be made.
  • Another negative impact on our district is that it has also taxed those few educators with more technical ability and data knowledge moreso than other programs. The need to create/summarize/write programs to deal with full, raw data export files since the smaller, more specific reports and summaries are not downloadable into a format that can be manipulated easily (pdf only, not csv exports), and to constantly back up data exports and to have to search through them when the State wants results on past students etc.
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