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Renaissance Star Assessments

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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.

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Renaissance Star Assessments Technical Details

Deployment TypesSoftware as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based
Operating SystemsUnspecified
Mobile ApplicationNo

Frequently Asked Questions

FastBridge Learning, NWEA MAP Suite, and Lexia PowerUp Literacy are common alternatives for Renaissance Star Assessments.

Reviewers rate Usability and Support Rating highest, with a score of 9.1.

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:

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

Reviews

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Easy information!

Rating: 8 out of 10
October 21, 2024
BR
Vetted Review
Verified User
Renaissance Star Assessments
6 years of experience
  • Grade level equivilency
  • Shows clear information to parents
  • Creates small groups with targetting skills to work on

Star Renaissance

Rating: 9 out of 10
April 27, 2024
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
Renaissance Star Assessments
10 years of experience
  • rigor
  • easy to use
  • reminders

Testing Rigor

Rating: 9 out of 10
April 22, 2024
AE
Vetted Review
Verified User
Renaissance Star Assessments
5 years of experience
  • Easy to use
  • Staggered question rigor
  • Reminders

GREAT PRODUCT!!

Rating: 10 out of 10
April 16, 2024
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
  • Access to reports
  • Easily administered
  • Quick results

Love Renaissance

Rating: 8 out of 10
January 26, 2024
RS
Vetted Review
Verified User
Renaissance Star Assessments
3 years of experience
  • Multiple examples
  • Continue the progress individually
  • Children can work at the own pace

Star Assessment and Renaissance make Students, Teachers and Parents Partners in Literacy Success!

Rating: 10 out of 10
November 27, 2023
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
Renaissance Star Assessments
7 years of experience
  • provides usable, easy to understand teacher and family reports
  • tests required grade level standards
  • links assessment with Nearpod lessons
  • provides individual company support
  • easy and fast to administer during a busy day school day
  • provides an opportunity to pause the test if needed

Renaissance Star Assessments is Out of This World

Rating: 9 out of 10
October 30, 2023
LS
Vetted Review
Verified User
Renaissance Star Assessments
15 years of experience
  • 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.

Great Tool

Rating: 10 out of 10
October 08, 2023
MK
Vetted Review
Verified User
Renaissance Star Assessments
2 years of experience
  • Reports are easy to utilize
  • Assessments fit into a manageable timeframe
  • Questions are aligned well with what they are said to be measuring

STAR Assessments Are Super!

Rating: 10 out of 10
March 20, 2023
RP
Vetted Review
Verified User
Renaissance Star Assessments
12 years of experience
  • Offers updated data.
  • Offers reports that identify which standards students need practice in.
  • Allows up to make student grouping decisions.

Renaissance Star Assessments help guide all readers to being a star reader!

Rating: 10 out of 10
January 25, 2023
MT
Vetted Review
Verified User
Renaissance Star Assessments
2 years of experience
  • The Star Screening Report gives a quick snapshot of students who are below a set goal.
  • The Instructional Planning Student Report gives specific learning needs for each child.
  • The Star Family Report helps parents see the progress their children are making.

Star Assessments Review

Rating: 8 out of 10
November 03, 2022
MM
Vetted Review
Verified User
Renaissance Star Assessments
1 year of experience
  • Data
  • Synchronization with Freckle
  • Adaptive Tests

Great!

Rating: 8 out of 10
May 25, 2022
CC
Vetted Review
Verified User
Renaissance Star Assessments
2 years of experience
  • Progress Monitoring.
  • Show what students master or need improvement in.
  • Show students how they have improved and what level they are currently in.

Assessment Suite - Quick, Reliable, and Easy to Use

Rating: 10 out of 10
May 05, 2022
RS
Vetted Review
Verified User
Renaissance Star Assessments
10 years of experience
  • We have the flexibility to set our own benchmark windows. We set three as a district that are mandatory (BOY, MOY, and EOY). Then we add two more optional windows between the benchmarks for schools that need more data on specific students and/or grade levels. However, if needed, teachers can administer an assessment to students at any time of year to gather individual student data, even outside the windows.
  • Renaissance is continually improving and adapting to the changing needs of schools. They have recently added Curriculum Based Measures for the elementary grades. These progress monitoring probes track students’ developmental growth with short one minute measures (i.e. letter sounds, oral reading, rapid automatic naming, numeral recognition, addition, subtraction, and multiplication). Item level scoring and reports provide teachers with specific skill insights to determine appropriate next steps.
  • The easy to access and read reporting suite allows the district as well as schools and teachers to make informed decisions based on data. With the Star Screening Report, it’s easy to see which students are on track and which students may be at risk in reading, math, and early literacy. The Star State Performance Report is also another favorite because you can easily see which students are on track to meeting state proficiency requirements.
  • In addition to the Star assessments, Renaissance has also created an extremely large library of resources that connect the assessment with instruction giving teachers immediate access to instructional resources aligned with their students’ data.
  • We also utilize Renaissance’s Custom Data Integration services. It’s an automated process that populates student/staff/class data into Renaissance by syncing directly with our SIS. This means when a student moves in/out, it automatically syncs and no need to add/delete student accounts.

Star Assessment

Rating: 9 out of 10
March 23, 2022
SB
Vetted Review
Verified User
Renaissance Star Assessments
8 years of experience
  • Diagnostics
  • Informed Instruction
  • Personalized Reading Levels
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