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…
We use state assessments while I love using Renaissance Star, it is more independent. For 1st graders, are not independent and it is overwhelming. The State testing is broken down into parts and allows the students to slowly work towards reading and comprehension. There is a …
This is the 3rd year we have using the Star Assessments so far we really like it. The other was time consuming and unreliable so we are staying with the Star Assessments.
All Renaissance products are great. They saved me during online teaching during Covid, being able to assess my students and track their progress. The alignment and connections between them make them easy to use and time savers. I have used Star Assessments the longest. I love …
Fast ForWord is a program that allows students to play games while learning and practicing reading skills. I liked this program at first, because it was fun for the students and they loved completing new levels. After time, many of the students lost their motivation. They began …
Renaissance STAR Assessments give the same information (more information, actually) using fewer questions. Our school selected these assessments in order to be able to get benchmarking information on students in an efficient manner and then to monitor progress easily throughout …
Renaissance Star Assessments, Renaissance Accelerated Reader, and Renaissance myOn have been hands down the best products for student success that I have evaluated in the past six years of use. All show the importance of data and data implementation processes within and outside …
Freckle by Renaissance is a great tool to use once the students have taken the Renaissance Star Assessments. You can use the data provided by the Star Reports to assign assignments for your students at the level of their need.
The other assessments are helpful too. However, the first two are not as easy to administer and the last is VERY expensive and the reports are hard to follow.
It is easy to use and the reports are easy to understand. You can show results to students and make a plan on how to improve
Verified User
Professional
Chose Renaissance Star Assessments
NWEA is more rigorous than STAR Assessments. NWEA MAP aligns directly with our state and ACT tests. Our district uses STAR Assessments for benchmark and progress monitoring. We use NWEA MAP for benchmarking. NWEA MAP does not have progress monitoring (math and reading …
Accelerated Reader goes hand-in hand with Renaissance Star Assessments assessments. The program dovetail into each other. The Renaissance Star Assessments informs the student, parent, and teacher what level a child is reading and appropriate materials can be used that are in a …
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 …
STAR and DIBELS correlate well together. Renaissance Star Assessments was selected for our school as it is a preferred state assessment/progress monitoring tool. Parents have a much easier time understanding the STAR Reports as opposed to other assessment tools I have used in …
AR complements the Star Assessments by then giving you tools for testing on individual books in the classroom. When students get a reading level, they then choose books at their level and then test on it. This gives you direct feedback on how well the students are …
Star Reading is far better than any product I have used. It provides adjusting question level while the test is going on. Adjusting to the responses of the learner. It is accurate and compares well to other assessments we use like PM benchmarks and F&P assessments. The ease of …
[My] organization has also worked at using iReady assessments which are a quicker test and a little bit more student friendly. We go back-and-forth between which one we want to use and it is up to the school sites.
I feel that the Renaissance Star 360 Math assessment is an amazing tool to use in the classroom. It gives you so many different types of reports that other similar assessments would not offer. There is a parent section that gives the data to a parent in friendly non-technical …
Last year we used Let's Go Learn. I do prefer this program. The tests are easy to administer and the data is clear and easy to use. We used Renaissance in the past with AR reading and Math. I do miss those programs. It is not a direction the district was going in.
Verified User
Employee
Chose Renaissance Star Assessments
Renaissance Star Assessment works better for progress monitoring over time. It is easy to set up goals and monitor growth. The diagnostic reports can be viewed and printed for use as evidence when needed.
We were looking for an early literacy/math screener for our JK and Kindergarten classes. We looked at FastBridge's assessment for early learners. The presentation was done online and appeared confusing for us. The Renaissance's presentation was also online but was much more …