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What is Renaissance Star Assessments?
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…
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What is Renaissance Star Assessments?
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…
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What is Renaissance Star Assessments?
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 Custom (K–12); and Star CBM, with curriculum-based measures for reading (K–6), lectura (K–6), and math (K–3).
Renaissance Star Assessments Features
- Supported: Renaissance Star is supported by 93 scientific research studies and reviews on its reliability and validity.
- Supported: Student Growth Percentile (SGP) is Renaissance Star 360’s® measure for growth data, even as summative exams and benchmarks change. SGP gives a view of student growth over time by comparing a student’s previous test scores to current test scores, then measuring that growth alongside academic peers’ growth.
- Supported: Renaissance Mastery Model automates the tracking and reporting of student data from a wide variety of sources, and converts that data into a unified measure of mastery, helping educators make timely and informed decisions about all students’ learning.
- Supported: Renaissance Star Reading, Star Math, and Star Early Literacy are available in Spanish to help determine the best instruction to meet the needs of Spanish-speaking English Learners.
Renaissance Star Assessments Competitors
- FastBridge Learning
- NWEA MAP Suite
- Lexia PowerUp Literacy
- Scantron
- Pearson aimswebPlus
- MasteryConnect
- DIBELS Next
- Cognia (formerly Measured Progress and AdvancED)
Renaissance Star Assessments Technical Details
| Deployment Types | Software as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based |
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| Operating Systems | Unspecified |
| Mobile Application | No |
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FastBridge Learning, NWEA MAP Suite, and Lexia PowerUp Literacy are common alternatives for Renaissance Star Assessments.
Reviewers rate Support Rating highest, with a score of 9.
The most common users of Renaissance Star Assessments are from Mid-sized Companies (51-1,000 employees).
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Valuable Information and Alignment: Many users have stated that Renaissance Star Assessments provide valuable information about students' reading levels and progress over time. They appreciate that the assessments are aligned well with what they are said to be measuring.
Adaptive Tests for Customized Assessment: The adaptive tests feature of Renaissance Star Assessments has been praised by users. It adjusts the difficulty level of questions based on students' performance, providing a customized assessment experience.
Integration and Tracking with Other Platforms: Users find the data synchronization feature of Renaissance Star Assessments with platforms like Freckle and Nearpod to be helpful. This allows for seamless integration and tracking of student performance, as well as assigning lessons tailored to each student's needs.
Missing Features: Several users have expressed their desire for various improvements to the software, including a live view of students testing and the ability to flag questions answered too quickly. Some users also want to see results without having to refresh the form and suggest a trend line starting from the second test. Additionally, users would like to share improvements or problems with students and have a breakdown of data by strand.
Difficult Navigation and Reports: Users have found it challenging to navigate the reports page and suggested a step-by-step manual to explain the data. Some users feel that it takes too many steps to get the desired report and want similar reports for Spanish as are provided in English. They also mention that different reports show inconsistent data, making it confusing for them. Furthermore, they find the graphs inconsistent and confusing to read.
Technical Issues: Many users have reported technical issues with the software, such as slow performance, frequent hang-ups, and difficulty creating PDFs or exporting data to Excel. Some users have experienced crashes that resulted in the loss of an entire class's results. These technical difficulties not only impact user experience but also hinder productivity when using the software.
Users commonly recommend the following regarding Renaissance Star Assessments:
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Periodically retaking the test to gather progress data: Users suggest regularly administering the assessments to monitor and track students' progress over time. By periodically retaking the test, educators can gather valuable data on how students are advancing in their learning.
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Taking advantage of the reports: While some users find the reports in Star Assessments tricky to master, they emphasize their value and usefulness with experience. These reports provide educators with detailed insights into students' strengths, weaknesses, and areas for improvement.
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Applicability for diverse student populations: Users find Star 360 to be a versatile tool suitable for students of all ages, grades, and abilities. They highlight its ability to provide real-time information based on national standards and district achievements, allowing educators to tailor instruction and support to individual student needs.
Overall, users highly recommend Renaissance Star Assessments as a practical and effective tool for educators to monitor student progress and help them achieve their highest potential.
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March 03, 2022
Renaissance 360 is 360 degrees of amazing
Score 9 out of 10
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This program is an amazing resource for both students and teachers to see the progress of the students throughout the school year. The data is extremely accurate and very close to the individual's achievements in their math progress. I am very curious to see how close my students projected Parcc scores are when they come out in the spring being this is my first year using this program.
- Data management.
- Teacher incentives such as rewards.
- The tests are easy to monitor.
- More prizes.
- Fewer reports and more detailed response to the tests.
- More training on how to use all of the different reports.
- Individual student Data
- Grouping
- Class data
- Great resources
- Positive for data collection.
- Student progress.
- Let’s teachers know what they should work on with individual students and as a whole class.
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 terminology that lets them know how their child is progressing or not progressing throughout the year.
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The business functions that these people represent are the administrators and the teachers. I only put 100 but it would be much more if the parents were included into this total as well. The parents are not technically part of the business but they do use this as well to track their child’s math progress. I guess that the students that look at the data could also be included as well.
9
Our curriculum coordinator is the go to person for this program. A group of 8 teachers from the different grade levels also are being trained to support the teachers on their grade level with questions and how to use the data from the assessments in their classroom. I am one of the teachers in that group and I have been to multiple webinars by renaissance 360 people and they are very informative and rewarding.
- Data management
- Student progress
- Student monitoring
- Parcc score projections
- Parent communication letters
- MANY different types of data management charts
- Assign the individual students asignrmrnts
- Parcc scores
- Ongoing data management
No
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I would not
- Implemented in-house
No
Change management was a minor issue with the implementation
InFont jnow
- None
- Online training
No
No - we have not done any customization to the interface
No - we have not done any custom code
No
I am not in charge of purchassss
No
Like I have stated the data that comes from these assessments is incredibly useful.
- Data driven
- Individual support
- None
No
- Math
- Reading
No
- Not sure
I don’t know
- File import/export
No
No
I was not
No
No
- Student improvement
- Student improvement
No
No
April 01, 2021
Renaissance Star 360...A Complete Program in One
Renaissance Star 360 is a complete mathematical and reading program that is used district-wide. We use the data that it provides to help steer assessment, to document student growth, and to guide instruction. With the program being aligned to the Oklahoma Academic Standards, we are able to document our coverage of the standard material. GREAT TOOL!
- Renaissance Star 360 encompasses all the new Oklahoma Academic Standards which is helpful in documenting the requirements.
- Renaissance Star 360 allows for immediate data and feedback on where the teacher should start with intervention techniques and strategies.
- It illustrates a student's growth pattern for the teacher, administration, and parents. It takes away the guessing game of where a child is performing.
- It is a great tool for individualized instruction.
- There is a lot of data to filter through.
- The online reports could be combined.
- It is a great tool for individualized instruction. I would like to keep the AM tho.
- Our test scores have increased dramatically.
- It is a great tool for individualized instruction.
- It has proved to be the most beneficial program ever!!
Renaissance and its constant looping is a better program than Study Island. I am so sad to lose the AM version next year tho.I just don't forsee a program that can mirror what benefits Renaissance Star 360 offers currently.
math and reading....elementary through high school
Can't afford the upgrade
- math
- reading
- early literacy
- not using
- not using
No
- Price
I wouldn't
- Don't know
- training
- computer capabilities
- Self-taught
No. I think a lot of people would be overwhelmed
Stay up to date with goals and objectives
no
The always are so quick to return calls and always have a fix or explanation for me
- data retrieval
- lots to sift through
- Freckle Math
Easy to do...very user friendly
- no
no
I haven't
Be diligent in learning about what all the program offers.
They allowed us to specifically identify our needs and develop a program that met those needs.
Just to not be afraid to call them all the time. They seriously want you to if you need anything.
No
- Haven't upgraded
- More data with detailed Oklahoma Academic Standards breakdowns and alignment
No
No