Star Custom: Research-Based Formative Assessment Tool
Guide every student to mastery
Formative assessment tool for K–12
With Star Custom, you can support a cycle of informed instruction using quality skill checks aligned to your state standards. You’ll get greater insight into the skills students have mastered and those that need more work—so you better target instruction and move learning forward.
From standard skill to subskill
Get a complete picture of student mastery with easy-to-read reports—so you can make instructional decisions with confidence and improve day-to-day learning gains.
The Renaissance Mastery Dashboard shows how close students are to mastery and indicates whether additional assessments may be helpful.
The Item Responses Report shows how students responded to each item, so teachers can more easily pinpoint exactly where students may struggle.
Test and track mastery in 3 easy steps
How the formative assessment tool works
Decide which skills to assess
You can assess specific reading, math, and early literacy skills using pre-made items and tests aligned to state standards, or test skills in any subject area—including social studies, science, and more—when you author your own test items.
Select and assign skill checks
Once you select (or create) a skill check, it’s easy to assign it to individual students, student groups, or an entire class, so you can check understanding of specific skills. Watch this short video to see the process in action.
Track student progress
Reports and dashboards help you determine which skills students know, how deeply those skills are understood, and where to differentiate instruction.
Multiple-choice items
Star Custom offers two item formats: multiple-choice and constructed response. Automatic scoring and immediate feedback for multiple-choice items help students take ownership of their own learning.
Constructed-response items
Star Custom offers two item formats: multiple-choice and constructed response. Constructed-response items allow students to demonstrate deeper knowledge and understanding of a concept. Rubrics in the software help teachers to score constructed-response items.
Transform formative assessment into actionable insight
A closer look at our formative assessment tool
Unified measure of mastery
Only Renaissance integrates data from multiple Star assessments—including Star Custom, Star Reading, Star Math, and Star Early Literacy—to provide a single, unified measure of mastery. Renaissance’s learning progressions for states then help you determine which skills to teach and track.
Intuitive reports for educators
Do you need to see results for the whole class, an instructional subgroup, or an individual student? Explore how Star Custom reports help provide data-fueled insights to help inform whole-group, small-group, and one-on-one instruction on a day-to-day basis.
Included with the full Star Assessments suite!
Star Custom is only available as part of the full Star Assessments suite.
FAQs about our formative assessment tool
Understanding Star custom
Approved by administrators and teachers globally
Teachers really appreciate the ability to develop short quizzes that students can typically complete in just 10 or 15 minutes. Star Custom is a very effective method for monitoring progress on the specific standards where a student might be struggling—as well as ensuring that no one gets left behind as the class moves on to the next skill level.
Sherrilynn Bair, Curriculum Director, Snake River School District
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Want to learn more?
A Renaissance representative can provide you with a more detailed understanding of Star Custom and Renaissance student assessment tools