Star Reading | Renaissance | Assessment Integration

Renaissance Field

Rethink Field

Mapping Points

Logic for Rethink Set Up

ScaledScore

Scaled Score

• Scaled Score is seen by user as a heading and beneath it is the scaled score for the student.

• Used in Student View as part of graphs and charts.

• Scaled scores are different for each grade so graphs need to reflect a starting and ending range that shows the user scaled scores that particular grade and student. (See outside link to Renaissance Benchmark Cut Scores).

Renaissance Field Information:

Scaled Score of student’s Star Reading test (0-
1400); this is the Enterprise Scale.
Integer

Grade

• Users see The Star ELA Tab when a student has taken the Star ELA test in the year selected.

• Star Reading given to students in grades 3 and older.

• Given a student has taken the Star Reading, then we will show the Star Reading Tab.

Renaissance Field Information:

Grade level of the assessment taken (this may be
adjusted in Renaissance).
Varchar(20)

GradeEquivalent

Grade Equivalent

• Grade Equivalent is seen by user as a heading and beneath it is a grade equivalency for the student.

• Used in Student View as part of graphs and charts. (See image: Grade Equivalent)

• Grade equivalency is provided for each season of the test and is part of data collection specific to the seasons.

  • See below for: ScreeningPeriodWindowName, ScreeningWindowStartDate, ScreeningWindowEndDate

Renaissance Field Information:

Grade Equivalent (GE) value. Grade Equivalent
scores range from 0.0 to 12.9+. They represent
how a student’s test performance compares with
that of other students nationally. A GE score
preceded by a “greater than” sign (>) is a capped
score. GE scores in excess of three grade levels
above the student’s actual grade are capped,
meaning that such GE scores are shown as “>
[student’s actual grade level + 3].” This prevents
the misinterpretation that students with

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Field Description
excessively high GE scores are capable of work
at those higher grades.
Text

PercentileRank

Percentile Rank

• Percentile is seen by user as a heading and the student’s percentile is shown beneath it in the Student View

• Used in several areas including: Student View, Classroom View, Account Settings

• Percentile Rank (PR) is used to determine the benchmarks categories for Renaissance (At / Above = PR 40, On Watch=PR 25-39, Intervention=PR 10-24, Urgent Intervention=PR below 10) so we are stuck with them for the corresponding text equivalent.

  • We allow users to adjust the Tier levels based on these benchmarks (See image: Settings).

Renaissance Field Information:

 Percentile rank (PR) value. Norm-referenced
score provides a measure of student’s reading
ability compared to other students in the same
grade nationally; it indicates the percentage of the
students nationally who obtained scores equal to
or lower than the score of the student. Scores
range from 1 to 99.
Integer

ExtraTime

• Shown on Student View

• Extra time is a heading with either of the following responses given:

  • Yes

  • No

Renaissance Field Information

“Yes” if the student was given extra time to complete the test.
varchar(3)

Empty State

• Given the value is null or left empty, then we will not show the heading nor the value beneath it on the Student View.

ScreeningWindowStartDate

• Screening window start date is not shown to the user but is used to determine what information is contained within each of the seasons.

• Used to determine the start date for each of the tests: Fall, Winter and Spring.

• In addition, our settings allow users to change Tier designation BEFORE the testing window begins for Star Early Literacy, Star Literacy and Star Math. (See: Settings)

• See Star Early Literacy for image in settings.

Renaissance Field Information

Start date of screening window (blank if outside of
window).
This will only be populated as long as the school
the assessment is linked to is tied to a screening
window on the site and the assessment taken falls
within that window.
Varchar(max)

ScreeningWindowEndDate

• Screening window end date is not shown to the user but is used to determine what information is contained within each of the seasons.

• Used to determine the end date for each of the tests: Fall, Winter and Spring.

• See Star Early Literacy for example of an empty state in the Student View.

Renaissance Field Information

End date of screening window (blank if outside of
window).
This will only be populated as long as the school
the assessment is linked to is tied to a screening
window on the site and the assessment taken falls
within that window.
Varchar(max)

ScreeningPeriodWindowName

• This shows as Fall, Winter, Spring in the designs

• We will be combining Star Early Literacy with Star Literacy to show the tier levels in the graph.

• We need to name each of the seasons for ELA:

  • ELA Fall

  • ELA Winter

  • ELA Spring

• Test needs to be given within the testing window in order to count. Field to determine this are: ScreeningWindowStartDate and ScreeningWindowEndDate

• See: Star Early Literacy for future development example that shows multiple years.

Renaissance Field Information:

Name of screening window if test is within the
school’s set screening windows (blank if outside
of screening windows).
This will only be populated as long as the school
the assessment is linked to is tied to a screening
window on the site and the assessment taken falls
within that window.
Varchar(255)

RenaissanceBenchmarkCategoryName

• This shows as the name of the test-Example: Star Reading and is a header for information contained beneath it. -part of the design

• Shown in graphic representation. For example: Urgent Intervention, Intervention, On Watch, At or Above, or N/A

• Suggest account settings so user can decide their own words to put on the graphic to represent their state identification of proficiency categories “standardize customization”

Tiering will be based exclusively on the most recent value of the RenaissanceBenchmarkCategoryName column for each student, where most recent is determined by the CompletedDateLocal column and each student is identified by StudentUserID column.

Renaissance default benchmark categories; these
are standard across all Renaissance customers.
At/Above Benchmark: At/Above 40 PR

Field Description
On Watch: 25 – 39 PR
Intervention: 10 – 24 PR
Urgent Intervention: Below 10 PR

• Need to input cut scores for different types of state tests so that the right graphic shows.

• N/A shows when student did not take the assessment-empty state-not sure if this is a category provided by Renaissance or one we need to create/include if no values are included in the data set

CompletedDateLocal

• Shows in design with the title of the seasons. Contained within each of the tabs for a cumulative view of all the seasons and in column headings.

• Contained in all dashboards-Admin, Classroom, Student.

• We combine the scores for Star Early Literacy and Star Reading to get one graph.

Used for updating the RenaissanceBenchmarkCategoryName. See Column Definitions document for field description.

CompletedDate converted to the time zone
configured for the site where the assessment was
taken. If there is a discrepancy between these two
values, CompletedDate (which is stored as UTC)
is considered authoritative.
Datetime

StudentUserID

• Not sure if this is part of our design that user sees. We show student ID in top part of the design but that may be a different ID than this value.

• Need to map students correctly with number for calculating test results and our Student ID numbers used in Rethink.

• Note the trademark for Renaissance Learning.

• Not the caution for imported/manual entry

Used for identifying specific student for inclusion of most recent CompletedDateLocal and RenaissanceBenchmarkCategoryName

Specified by OneRoster and intended to contain
an optional, machine-readable ID. CDI populates

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Field Description
this with the human-readable ID for an object.
Customers that have imported or manually added
their roster information may not have this value
populated.
Varchar(50)

SATBenchmarkCategory

• This is an assessment type that would show either under the heading: Assessment or alone such as SAT Benchmark

• SAT is for older students--maybe show on a design

• These contain subcategories: each with a cut score

• Levels include: At/Above Benchmark, Below Benchmark

• We would need to show cut scores and write logic:

  • Given StudentUserID has a score equal to or greater than X in the Renaissance Field SATBenchmarkCategory, then we show At/Above Benchmark

  • Link to SAT Benchmark Cut Scores:

    • Link shows multiple content areas

ACTBenchmarkCategory

• This is an assessment type that would show either under the heading: Assessment or alone such as SAT Benchmark

• SAT is for older students--maybe show on a design

• These contain subcategories: each with a cut score

• Levels include: At/Above Benchmark, Below Benchmark

• We would need show cut scores and write logic:

  • Given StudentUserID has a score equal to or greater than X in the Renaissance Field ATCBenchmarkCategory, then we show At/Above Benchmark

  • Link to ACT Benchmark Cut Scores:

    • Link shows multiple content areas