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Reading, math, early literacy, and custom assessments

Discover the quickest, most-reliable assessment designed for Arkansas educators

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.

Now approved for K–2 assessments and 3–8 assessments by the Arkansas Department of Education

Accurate

See how your students are progressing toward mastery Arkansas standards. Star Reading is highly predictive of performance on state reading tests.

Targeted

Get more than a score. View students’ mastery of specific skills or standards, what they’re ready to learn, and related instructional resources.

Trusted

Star Reading is highly rated by the National Center on Intensive Intervention (NCII) for academic screening and academic progress monitoring.

Quick

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

Stay up to date with exclusive resources and events

K-2 Guidance for Star Assessments in Arkansas
Focus Skills Workbooks for Literacy and Math
CDI Best Practices for Arkansas
Visit the Arkansas Live Binder site to keep up with the latest PD plans and schedules. Arkansas districts, you will also find more Renaissance resources to assist with your implementation.
Register for Renaissance-U
- The State Department of Arkansas has a special resource section for Arkansas educators.
- If it’s your first time logging in to Renaissance-U, please click here.
- For returning users:
  - Important: If you already have an account, login here with your unique username and password.
  - Please note: If you previously started training and/or partially completed a course, you want to login into your original account. Creating a new account may require you to start your training from the beginning.
- You can view previously recorded professional development sessions in Renaissance-U.

How Kids Are Performing

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.

View the report

Approved by the Arkansas department of education

Chart a path toward growth for students

Supporting Arkansas educators

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:

Save time with one-time set up to maintain accurate school records
Track historical data and growth of students across the state with ease
See data in one central system that shows performance across your district and within each school and classroom
Assess the building blocks of reading and math with Curriculum-Based Measures

Learn more about ADE partnership

Learning progressions

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:

Supports each student’s K-12 journey
Identifies which skills to teach
Answers the question, “What’s next?”

Renaissance learning progressions also feature:

A teachable order of skills in context of your state’s standards
Focus skills
Focus Skills at key points in the development path
Data-based guidelines for personalizing instruction
Ideas for teaching skills, including ELL support

Learn more

Read our brochure

Renaissance offers many assessment tools to meet the varying needs of students and their teachers.

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AssessMinutes videos

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AssessMinutes – Focus Skills

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AssessMinutes – Learning Progressions

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AssessMinutes – Why Test Scores Fluctuate

Trusted by Educators and Researchers Nationwide

Decades of research prove the reliability and validity of Star–in just 20 minutes

Committed to early learning

Create a strong foundation

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.

SEL Flyer

Learn more about kick-starting early reading growth with Star Early Literacy

Download SEL flyer

Star CBM Flyer

Get first-hand insight into K–3 students’ strengths and instructional needs.

Download Star CBM flyer

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.

Download the Booklet

Additional resources

Develop Strong Foundational Literacy Skills for All

Give students their best possible start when you pair Star Early Literacy with Lalilo.

Download the Star Early Literacy and Lalilo flyer

Developing early readers

Supporting your age 3 to grade 3 readers throughout the entire instructional cycle.

Download the Developing Early Readers booklet

Accelerate instruction with the Star Assessments to Nearpod connection

Give teachers the answer to “What do my students need next?”

Download the Star and Nearpod Connection flyer

Enhanced analytics

Interactive, real-time visualizations for districts

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All Arkansas districts partnering with Renaissance as part of the ADE Ready for Learning Assessment program will experience interactive real-time data visualizations that give you new ways to easily access, sort, and view your assessment data over time.

Strengthen your multi-tiered system of support (MTSS) implementation with interactive district-level to whole-child data management.