Assessment, practice, and insight to propel students forward
Less testing time = more instructional time
Imagine if it took only 20 minutes or less to identify what students know, where they are on a Texas-specific learning progression, and the best next best steps for mastery of the TEKS. Renaissance Star Assessments®, a pre-K-12 assessment suite, delivers the valid and reliable screening, progress monitoring, and student growth data you need to make informed decisions.
The Star assessment suite delivers:
- An assessment highly rated for reliability and validity by key federal institutes, such as the NCRTI, NCII, and NCSPM
- Quick access to actionable real-time data
- Easy-to-read progress reports sharable with students and parents
- Side-by-side domain score reporting in English and Spanish
Renaissance Star Early Literacy®, Renaissance Star Reading®, and Renaissance Star Math® are on the Commissioner’s List of Approved Tests.
Resources:
On-Demand Webinar
- Connecting Assessment to Instruction for English Learners
- Rising to Literacy Challenges with Effective Universal Screening
- Why Success Starts with Great Data
Linking Study
Use data to guide RTI strategies and instruction
With Renaissance® products and services, all learners—of every age and ability level—can be on the path to college and career readiness.
Academic screening and progress monitoring
Renaissance Star Assessments®, allow you to screen students and monitor progress, while also providing Texas-specific learning progressions to guide students toward TEKS mastery. Star is also the only assessment that disaggregates TELPAS data and provides side-by-side domain scores in both English and Spanish.
High-quality practice
Renaissance solutions provide deep, personalized practice that engages and motivates students as they build and reinforce essential reading and math skills.
- myON, by Renaissance, motivates students by providing instant access to a personalized library of thousands of digital books to read online and offline.
- Renaissance Accelerated Reader® engages students in reading practice with fiction and nonfiction texts while strengthening essential skills.
- Renaissance Accelerated Math® empowers students to build their competency with the appropriate amount of standards-based practice—giving every student a healthy dose of math confidence.
A pioneering partnership to power better student outcomes
Renaissance Flow 360® is an innovative program that makes assessment-driven personalized learning a reality. It seamlessly connects Renaissance Star Assessments® to HMH's new Texas literacy programs, a Renaissance Growth Alliance partner. The result is a steady flow of reliable data that can provide insights, organization, and data translation between the two company’s programs—all in one place—to create and track the growth of every student.
- Renaissance Star Assessments provide valid and reliable data to personalize practice and daily reading activities
- HMH Into Reading™ Texas and HMH Into Literacture™ Texas resources are instantly accessed to differentiate instruction within and across classes
- Students are monitored in real-time using mastery reports—organized by TEKS domain, standard, skill, and sub-skill
- A unified view for both teachers and students gives clear guidance to accelerates learning
What does this mean for you? Effortless data management equals more teaching time!
Exciting and engaging reporting provided by Renaissance myON News®, powered by News-O-Matic
With the addition of myON News, powered by News-O-Matic, your students will be delivered five daily, age-appropriate articles on timely topics and current events.
Each article is:
- Written by a professional journalist and reviewed by a child psychologist for appropriateness
- Available in three Lexile levels, so each student can read the same article at their own level
- Accompanied by audio supports and engaging multimedia to further understanding
- Reported in a way that is appropriate for younger grade levels, even when sensitive topics are discussed
- Articles provided in English, Spanish, and French and can be easily changed with the click of a button.
