Goals and Benchmarks – Star Help

On the Goals & Benchmarks page, you can see the Star goals that you have set for your students, and you can choose to set new goals or view or edit benchmarks for Star test scores.

How to Get to the Goals & Benchmarks Page

Log in to Renaissance.
On the Home page:
- Renaissance Next: Select Star in the sidebar, then select either Star Reading, Star Early Literacy, Star Math, or Star Spanish.
- Legacy Mode: Select either Star Reading, Star Early Literacy, Star Math, or Star Spanish.
In the drop-down list, select Manage Goals & Benchmarks.

If the software goes back to the Home page after you choose Manage Goals & Benchmarks, you do not have the user permissions required to view or manage goals.

Setting New Goals

Goals can be set for students' Star Reading, Star Early Literacy, and Star Math scores, both English and Spanish (Scaled Scores, Percentile Ranks, and Student Growth Percentiles).

To set reading practice goals for the quizzes that students take in Accelerated Reader, see Accelerated Reader Goals (Record Book). To set reading certification goals, see Accelerated Reader Certifications (Record Book).

To set new Star goals for your students, select Set a Goal.

The Set a Goal button.

Viewing and Editing Benchmarks

To see the benchmarks that are being used for Star tests, and to make changes if necessary, select View or Edit Benchmarks.

The View or Edit Benchmarks button.

For more information, see one of the following:

Viewing/Editing School Benchmarks

Viewing/Editing District Benchmarks

Viewing Estimated Cut Scores (for State Tests)

Viewing Goals

At the bottom of the Goals & Benchmarks page, you can see the Star goals that you have already set for the selected students. District administrators can view goals for any class or students in any school. School administrators can view goals for any class or students in their school. Teachers can view goals for their classes and students.

First, use the School, Class, and Students drop-down lists to choose which students' goals you would like to see.

The School, Class, and Students drop-down lists.

You can only choose a single school or class at a time; if you only have access to a single school or class, you will not need to make a selection.
For students, you can use the Select All / Clear All link at the bottom of the drop-down list to check or uncheck all the students at once.

Use the check boxes to choose whether to see goals that are upcoming (the goal time period has not started), goals that are in progress, and/or goals that are completed (for which the end date has passed).

The Upcoming, In Progress, and Completed check boxes; all three have been selected.

At the bottom of the page, each type of goal that you have set will be listed. (Since students can only have one goal of each type at a time, goal types will only be listed once for each subject.)

To see the status of a goal type for the students, select the arrow to the left of the goal type name.
The Goal Status page, showing the goals for all students in a specific class. The arrow to the left of the goal has been selected. For each student's goal, the subject, start and end date, goal score, actual score, and status are shown. The Edit and Delete links are in the far right column of each student's row.

For each type of goal, you will see the subject, the date range (and the marking period name if you chose a marking period), the goal, the student's actual performance, and the status.

For goals that are in the future (the time period has not started yet), the status will be Upcoming. If the goal has started, but the end date hasn't arrived yet, the status is In Progress. After the end date, the status shows whether the student has achieved the goal (Achieved or Not Achieved).

These types of goals may be included:

Goal Category	Goal Type	Student Activities That Can Apply to This Goal
Reading	Percentile Rank	Star Reading Enterprise Star Reading Progress Monitoring Star Early Literacy
Reading	Scaled Score Enterprise - Star Early Literacy	Star Early Literacy
Reading	Scaled Score Enterprise - Star Reading	Star Reading Enterprise Star Reading Progress Monitoring
Reading	Scaled Score Unified	Star Reading Enterprise Star Reading Progress Monitoring Star Early Literacy
Reading	SGP - Star Early Literacy	Star Early Literacy
Reading	SGP - Star Reading	Star Reading Enterprise Star Reading Progress Monitoring
Reading Spanish	Percentile Rank	Star Reading Spanish Star Early Literacy Spanish
Reading Spanish	Scaled Score Enterprise - Star Early Literacy Spanish	Star Early Literacy Spanish
Reading Spanish	Scaled Score Enterprise - Star Reading Spanish	Star Reading Spanish
Reading Spanish	Scaled Score Unified	Star Reading Spanish Star Early Literacy Spanish
Reading Spanish	SGP - Star Early Literacy Spanish	Star Early Literacy Spanish
Reading Spanish	SGP - Star Reading Spanish	Star Reading Spanish
Math	Percentile Rank	Star Math Enterprise Star Math Progress Monitoring Star Math Algebra Star Math Geometry
Math	Scaled Score Enterprise - Star Math	Star Math Enterprise Star Math Progress Monitoring Star Math Algebra Star Math Geometry
Math	Scaled Score Unified	Star Math Enterprise Star Math Progress Monitoring Star Math Algebra Star Math Geometry
Math	SGP - Math	Star Math Enterprise Star Math Progress Monitoring
Math Spanish	Percentile Rank	Star Math Spanish
Math Spanish	Scaled Score Enterprise - Star Math Spanish	Star Math Spanish
Math Spanish	Scaled Score Unified	Star Math Spanish
Math Spanish	SGP - Star Math Spanish	Star Math Spanish

You can edit a specific student's goal by selecting Edit at the end of the row for a student. On the Edit Goal page, you can make your changes, and then select Save Goals.
The Edit link.

You can also delete a student's goal by selecting Delete in the row.

You can see students' progress toward goals in the Goal History Report.

Students cannot see their progress toward Star test goals.