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Reading – Percentile Rank Goal

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How do I get to this page?

  1. Log in to Renaissance.
  2. On the Home page, select Star Reading or Star Early Literacy; in the drop-down menu, select Manage Goals & Benchmarks.
  3. On the Goals & Benchmarks page, select Set a Goal.
    The Set a Goal button.

Who can do this with default user permissions?

  • District Level Administrators: can work with goals for all students in the district
  • School Level Administrators: can work with goals for all students in their own school
  • Teachers: can work with goals for their own students

Goals are set at the individual student level. When you set a Percentile Rank goal for Reading, you set a target Percentile Rank that you want the student(s) to reach and a time frame for them to achieve that goal.

Scaled Score (SS), Percentile Rank (PR), and Student Growth Percentile (SGP)

Scaled Scores (SS) are calculated based on the difficulty of questions in a student's test and the number of correct responses. They can be used to compare student performance over time and across grade levels. Star Reading Scaled Scores range from 0–1400; Star Early Literacy Scaled Scores range from 300–900.

Percentile Ranks (PR) is a norm-referenced score that indicates the percentage of other students nationally who obtained scores equal to or lower than the score of a particular student. Percentile Rank scores range from 1–99.

Student Growth Percentile (SGP) compares a student's growth to that of his or her academic peers nationwide. Lower numbers indicate lower relative growth, and higher numbers indicate higher relative growth. SGP scores range from 1–99.

For more information, see “Benchmarks and Cut Scores” (for Star Reading on the Enterprise scale, Star Reading and Star Early Literacy on the Unified scale, or Star Early Literacy on the Enterprise scale), and What is Student Growth Percentile?

  1. On the Set a Goal page, use the School , Class , and Students drop-down lists to choose which students to set the goal for.
    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.
  2. In the "Type of goal" section , use the drop-down lists and select Reading for the goal category and Percentile Rank for the goal type.
    The Set a Goal page: Reading is the selected goal category, and Percentile Rank is the selected goal type.
  3. After you make those selections, the "Set goal options" section of the page will open. Select the Goal start and end dates drop-down list and choose the marking period during which the students should be working towards this goal (the dates for the marking periods are also shown next to their names).
    The user has chosen to select custom start and end dates for the goal. A pop-up calendar is open, allowing the user to choose the dates. The dates can also be entered in the fields above the calendar. The Apply and Cancel buttons are in the upper-right corner of the pop-up window.

    If you choose a marking period, the goal time period will be tied to that marking period; if changes are made to the marking period, the goal time period will change with it.

    You can also select Custom... and then set a custom date range instead of using a marking period. Enter start and end dates in the fields by using the calendars to select a range of dates; then select Apply to use the dates you have chosen (or Cancel to close this pop-up without saving your selection).
  4. Enter a name for the goal or intervention .
  5. Select the student activities that apply towards achieving the goal .
    In this example, Reading is the goal category, and Percentile Rank is the goal type. The user must select which tests will apply towards this goal: Star Early Literacy Enterprise, Star Reading Enterprise, and or Star Reading Progress Monitoring. Levels for goal calculation follow; the Apply button is at the bottom.
  6. Initially, you will set a single goal level for all the selected students (but you will be able to change individual student goals later if you wish). Select one of the levels presented here: 40 PR or 60 PR .
  7. Once you have set the goal options, select Apply .
  8. At the bottom of the page, you will see a table with all the selected students—each student's Percentile Rank (from their most recent test) is shown. Each field in the Goal column will have the goal value you selected earlier; you can change the value for any student if you wish.
    The Goal fields with the calculated Percentile Ranks. The Save Goals button is on the left.

    If the selected PR goal level is below the PR from the student's latest test, a Below latest test message will appear in the Goal column, indicating that a higher goal needs to be set for that student.

    Students who already have a Reading Percentile Rank goal set for a time period that overlaps this one will appear in bold in this table, with an asterisk following their names, and a separate table below will list the overlapping goals for those students.

    You can still set new goals for these students, or, if you prefer, you can go back and edit or delete the existing goals on the Goals & Benchmarks page. If you don't want to set new goals for these students or change the existing ones, choose Change Selection at the top of the page and deselect the students who have overlapping goals.

    For guidance in choosing a Percentile Rank, see “Benchmarks and Cut Scores” for Star Reading on the Enterprise scale, Star Reading and Star Early Literacy on the Unified scale, or Star Early Literacy on the Enterprise scale.

  9. Once you have set Percentile Rank goals for all the students, select Save Goals (or select Cancel to leave this page without saving these goals).
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