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See how your students are progressing toward mastery Arkansas standards. Star Reading is highly predictive of performance on state reading tests.
Only for Windows and Macintosh users; Chromebook and iPad users no action required. Prevents students in Arkansas from using the internet and other software while taking Star tests.
READING, MATH, EARLY LITERACY, AND CUSTOM ASSESSMENTS
Guide more growth for every student using Star Assessments, the most comprehensive K–12 interim and formative assessment suite available. Universal screening, progress monitoring, goal-setting data, and instructional resources are proven to help move Arkansas students forward.
See how your students are progressing toward mastery Arkansas standards. Star Reading is highly predictive of performance on state reading tests.
Get more than a score. View students’ mastery of specific skills or standards, what they’re ready to learn, and related instructional resources.
Star Reading is highly rated by the National Center on Intensive Intervention (NCII) for academic screening and academic progress monitoring.
Maximize instructional and practice time with assessments that takes on average student only 20 minutes to complete—less time than NWEA and others.
For Arkansas educators
How much progress are students making in reading and math nationwide? How much are they growing at each grade level? Get the answers in the new edition of Renaissance’s How Kids are Performing Report and see a snapshot of k-12 academic performance and growth.
Approved by The Arkansas Department of Education
In partnership with the Arkansas Department of Education (ADE) Star Assessments have been approved as a K–2 and 3–8 assessment solutions. Arkansas educators partnering with Renaissance can:
Learning progressions define a coherent and continuous pathway along which students move incrementally through states of increasing competence. Every incremental state builds on and integrates the previous one as students accrue new levels of expertise with each successive step in the progression.
A learning progression:
Renaissance learning progressions also feature:
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Renaissance offers many assessment tools to meet the varying needs of students and their teachers.
Trusted by educators and researchers nationwide
Committed to Early Learning
In the early grades, students develop the reading and math skills that form the foundation for their future learning. Star Early Literacy and Star CBM allow you to quickly identify every learner’s strengths and weaknesses and accurately assess students’ development so that you can better target instruction and intervention to each learner’s specific needs.
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Learn more about kick-starting early reading growth with Star Early Literacy
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Get first-hand insight into K–3 students’ strengths and instructional needs.
Better Together
We’re continuing to build on our commitment to early learning by adding Star CBM—curriculum-based measures that assess students on the building blocks of reading and math. Using Star Early Literacy and Star CBM together provides valuable perspectives for a more holistic view of student performance.
Give students their best possible start when you pair Star Early Literacy with Lalilo.
Supporting your age 3 to grade 3 readers throughout the entire instructional cycle.
Give teachers the answer to “What do my students need next?”
Enhanced Analytics
Strengthen your multi-tiered system of support (MTSS) implementation with interactive district-level to whole-child data management.
Your Arkansas team
Debra Simpson,
Account Manager
Maria Steele,
Executive Customer Success Manager