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Woodburn School Board gets PD on STAR assessments; district to shift which grades take which tests
Summary
At a special board meeting, Renaissance Learning staff briefed Woodburn School District directors on STAR assessment purpose, reliability, and reports. District staff said they will give STAR Early Literacy to K–2 and STAR Reading to grades 3–8 next school year, with teachers able to switch individual students who 'level up.'
The Woodburn School District board on Tuesday evening held a professional development session on the Renaissance STAR assessment system, hearing from Renaissance advisors about how STAR is used to screen students, measure growth and inform instruction. District Director Chrissy Chapman and Renaissance national academic advisor Faith Smith led the presentation and a question-and-answer period.
"My name is Faith Smith, and I'm a national academic advisor from Renaissance Learning," Smith said, describing STAR as an interim screener given three times a year and backed by large normative datasets. She told the board the assessment uses national percentile ranks and linked scaled scores to predict state assessment levels, and said STAR has a deep research base: "We've had over 300 studies done on STAR." The presenters described STAR as a computer-adaptive test that uses…
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