Overall Satisfaction with Renaissance Star Assessments
Star Assessments are a great tool to use for progress monitoring. In our building, we use STAR assessments in our language arts and math lab settings. If we believe a student should be placed in a lab class, we will often have them take STAR to have another piece of data to review. STAR assessments are used by our SPED and lab teachers. We are looking to add it as a resource for all of our Tier 2 students as part of our data for MTSS.
- Breaks down assessment proficiency by skill.
- Tracks progress and helps students create new goals.
- Grade equivalency scores are not accurate, great for progress monitoring but not for actual ability level.
- No area to score writing - Would like to see it look more like state standardized tests.
- Has helped given us more data on our students.
- Skill subsets have allowed us to focus more on areas of need.
They are two different products so it is difficult to compare them. We use STAR assessments to progress monitor. Accelerated Reader helps track what books students have read, if they comprehended them, and allows them to earn points. The Accelerated Reader is a better fit for a school-wide program to help track reading progress across all students. STAR assessments are a useful tool when you want to track reading or math progress for students multiple times during the school year.
Do you think Renaissance Star Assessments delivers good value for the price?
Yes
Are you happy with Renaissance Star Assessments's feature set?
Yes
Did Renaissance Star Assessments live up to sales and marketing promises?
I wasn't involved with the selection/purchase process
Did implementation of Renaissance Star Assessments go as expected?
Yes
Would you buy Renaissance Star Assessments again?
Yes