Assessments

Describes the extent to which a student's growth trajectory estimates they are "on-track" to demonstrate a foundational understanding of grade-level standards by the end of that academic year.

The growth metric in Renaissance Star is the Student Growth Percentile (SGP) which compares a student's growth to that of his or her academic peers nationwide. These peers are students in the same grade with a similar achievement history on Star assessments.

SGP is measured on a scale of 1-99. Lower numbers indicate lower relative growth, and higher numbers indicate higher relative growth.

Describes the extent a student's level of academic content knowledge at a point in time.

The performance levels associated with this indicator are: Urgent Intervention, Intervention, On Watch, At/Above Benchmark.

Star Assessments have benchmarks in place to support the comparison of norms to a predetermined criterion. The 10th, 25th, and 40th percentile ranks have been identified as widely used criteria for classifying students in a progression from needing urgent intervention to achieving target levels of proficiency.

This quadrant combines the academic readiness measure with the growth measure to describe the extent to which students are growing as expected to demonstrate understanding of grade level standards.

The four locations in the quadrant reflect the interaction of the academic readiness and growth measures with the percent of student represented in each area.

• High Growth / Grade Level or Above (upper right)
• High Growth / Below Grade Level (upper left)
• Low Growth / Below Grade Level (bottom left)
• Low Growth / Grade Level or Above (bottom right)