What is STAR? Warren County’s 7th grade Universal Screener All 7th graders take it Assessment identifying individual student needs Replaces GRADE & GMADE
STAR is also… Warren County’s progress monitoring tool for 8 th grade Assessment that continually measures progress of students in identified areas Reading Math Not all 8 th graders take it
Who takes STAR? Students not meeting benchmark on the Universal Screener What’s the 8 th grade Universal Screener? EPAS (EXPLORE, PLAN, ACT) Benchmarks? “College Readiness Benchmarks are the minimum ACT test scores required for students to have a high probability of success in credit-bearing college courses.” Reading: 15 Math: 17
EXPLORE Report
Will I take it? EXPLORE results from last year (as 7 th graders) Math < 16 Reading < 14 Transferred? If not on file, yes Private school? Yes How many? 2/3 of 8 th graders Lots of very high scores
What subjects? Both Reading and Math Why? Data
Is that me? Notified by teacher Curious why? Cafeteria tomorrow