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Email TopicSelect Explore on a tile in the District Profile or School Profile dashboards to get more information about your district's or school's high-level results. (School Leaders will see the icon on the School Profile.)
Using Explore, you can:
- Track changes in performance over five years for Star Reading, Star Math, and Star Early Literacy tests or two years for Accelerated Reader, myON, Freckle, Lalilo, and Star CBM data. For Star metrics, this includes strand and standards data. For Accelerated Reader, you can view quiz data by book level, literary category (fiction or nonfiction), or by quiz type. For myON, you can view data by book level or literary category (fiction or nonfiction). For Freckle, you can track practice type data. For Lalilo, you can view data by lesson category for active students and the percent of students practicing the recommended amount of time. For Star CBM metrics, you can view data for specific measures.
Note: The Star data and the Star CBM benchmark data that is shown depends on tests taken in a district screening window. Only tests taken in a district screening window are shown. For Star Reading, Star Math, and Star Early Literacy, only tests taken for schools that use the district screening windows are included. - Support root cause analysis and continuous improvement on your most important metrics with data comparison and filtering options.
- Identify key goal areas, grade levels, or student groups that need attention from educators.
- Export an image of a graph.
- View and export a data table.
- Present your school system's stories of success and growth opportunities in meetings.
For an introduction, watch this brief video. Note that the video uses the previous product name (Schoolzilla Starter).
After selecting Explore, you can choose the years and data to view, to filter by student or by school data, to use other views, or to export data.
Choose the Years and Time Periods to View
Choose to view data for up to five school years for Star data or up to two years for Accelerated Reader, myON, Freckle, and Star CBM data.
For Star Reading, Star Math, and Star Early Literacy data, and for Star CBM benchmark data, this allows you to compare data for specific district screening windows across multiple years. When a year is selected (dark blue), its data is shown; when it is not selected (gray), its data is not shown. You can also select individual screening windows (such as Fall, Winter, or Spring) within years; when a screening window is selected, the text is in dark blue, while when it is not selected, the text is gray.
For most Accelerated Reader, myON, and Freckle data and for Star CBM students assessed data, data is shown for 28-day time periods, and you can compare data for similar time periods across multiple years. When a time period is selected, the text is in dark blue; when it's not, the text is gray.
For Accelerated Reader quizzes passed and myON words read, data is shown by month. Months that are selected are dark blue and bold; those that aren't are gray.
If the learning progressions selected in your Renaissance Learning Standards have been changed, or if the learning progressions that are selected have been updated over the summer, Star standard and domain/strand data from past years will not be available.
Depending on your selections, past data may include only students who are enrolled in active schools in the current school year or both currently enrolled students and those who are no longer enrolled. If you filter or compare by current grade level, Is SPED, EL Status, migrant status, or SPED status, then only students who are currently enrolled in schools in the district and who have the values you select are included. For example, if you filter for students who are currently in 5th grade, then the data will show students who are currently enrolled in schools in the district who are in in 5th grade now; you will see data over the selected years (when the students were in previous grades).
If you filter or compare only by gender or primary ethnicity, the data will include both students who are enrolled now and those who were enrolled in the past so that you can see if there were differences in performance by gender or ethnicity over time. This is also true when you filter or compare by school level and/or school region.
See Student Information and Characteristics for more information.
View Proficiency Data by Standard (for Star Reading, Star Math, and Star Early Literacy Assessment Metrics)
When you go to Explore for a Star Reading, Star Math, or Star Early Literacy proficiency score metric, Renaissance Analytics includes standards-level data based on Star assessment results and Star Custom assessments. This is comprehensive mastery information, including both assessed and probed data. This data can help you see how students are performing today, how their performance has changed over time, and how they likely will perform on state tests in the future. This can help inform instructional and curricular adjustments across the district, in specific schools, with specific grades, or with groups of students.
For district and state proficiency data, to choose to view by standard, use the Content drop-down list, choose Standard, and then check the standards and select Save. To find specific standards quickly, you can type the name in the Content field. Once you save the selected standards, you can see the percentage and number of students who have achieved secure mastery for the standard. Secure mastery for each student represents 80-100% mastery.
The standards that are shown in Renaissance Analytics are those selected in the Learning Standards settings in Renaissance software. If the setting has been changed, or if the learning progression was updated over the summer, data from past years will not be shown.
If you choose many standards, one way to view the data more efficiently is to choose the table link or tile and view the data in table form.
If you prefer to stay in the graph view, you can remove standards from the view. To remove some of the standards, select the x to the right of the standards to clear the selections.
If you hover over a line or point on the graph, you can see more details, including the number of students who have achieved secure mastery.
Students do not need to be tested on an item on a specific standard in order for Star to generate a score for a standard. Mastery scores are based on the student's grade and the student's Star score. Based on years of testing and decades’ worth of data on how students with the same scale score performed on the set of items each student encountered on the test, Renaissance estimates how all students would perform on all items. Regardless of which items a student interacts with, Star can generate scores for any standard that has any item data in the assessment item bank. Star can estimate a score of every standard even when there is no item in the Star assessment bank. Renaissance has learning progressions for every state, which includes skills for every standard. By using Star item data for a subset of those skills, Renaissance can place every skill, and therefore every standard, on the same scale as Star. Additionally, even if a student is performing two grade levels below assigned grade level, with the data about how other students are performing, scores can be estimated at the assigned grade level.
View Data by Strand (for Star Reading, Star Math, and Star Early Literacy Score Metrics)
Renaissance Analytics also lets you view proficiency data by strand (domain) so that you identify the areas in which students may need more instruction. Select the Content drop-down list, select Strand, check the strands to include, and select Save.
If you hover over a point on the graph, you can see more details, including the percentage and number of students who have achieved secure mastery for the strand. Secure mastery for each student represents 80-100% mastery.
View Accelerated Reader Data by ATOS Book Level, Literary Category, or Quiz Type
For Accelerated Reader, Renaissance Analytics lets you view data by ATOS book level, literary category (fiction or nonfiction), or quiz type (Article, Literacy Skills, Other Reading, Reading Practice, or Vocabulary Practice Quizzes). This allows you to see how students perform based on book difficulty, the type of book, or the type of quiz.
In the Content drop-down list, select one of the options, then check the boxes under that category to choose the type of data to include. When you're done, select Save.
If you hover over a line and time period (dot) on the graph, you can see more details.
Table and distribution views are also available as described below.
View myON Data by ATOS Book Level or Literary Category
For myON, Renaissance Analytics lets you view data by ATOS book level or literary category (fiction or nonfiction).
In the Content drop-down list, select one of the options, then check the boxes under that category to choose the type of data to include. When you're done, select Save.
If you hover over a line and time period (dot) on the graph, you will see specific information.
Table and distribution views are also available as described below.
View Freckle Data by Practice Type
For Freckle, Renaissance Analytics lets you view data by practice type so that you can focus on how students perform in specific areas.
In the Content drop-down list, select one of the options, then check the boxes under that category to choose the type of data to include. When you're done, select Save.
You can also hover over a line and time period (dot) on the graph to see specific information.
Table and distribution views are also available as described below.
View Lalilo Data by Lesson Category
For Lalilo active students and the percent of students practicing the recommended amount of time, Renaissance Analytics lets you view data by lesson category.
In the Content drop-down list, select one of the options, then check the boxes under that category to choose the type of data to include. When you're done, select Save.
If you hover over a line and time period (dot) on the graph to see specific information.
Table and distribution views are also available as described below.
View Star CBM Students Assessed Data by Measure
For Star CBM students assessed, Renaissance Analytics lets you view overall data or data by Star CBM assessment measure. To choose how to view data, select the Content drop-down list and choose either Overall or Assessment. Overall shows you how many students completed at least one assessment of any type in each time period. Assessment shows you how many students completed at least one assessment of each type that you select. If you choose Overall, check the box; if you choose Assessment, check the assessment types that you want to include on the graph. When you're done, select Save.
You can also hover over a line or time period (dot) on the graph to see specific information.
Table and distribution views are also available as described below.
Filter by Student Information or Characteristics or by School Data
Use the Filter By drop-down list to choose whether to filter by grades, EL status, gender, migrant status, primary ethnicity, school level, school region, or school. (Note that only the student data that has been entered in your Renaissance software is available for these filters.)
Depending on your selections, past data may include only students who are currently enrolled or both currently enrolled students and those who are no longer enrolled. If you filter or compare by current grade level, Is SPED, EL Status, migrant status, or SPED status, then only currently enrolled students with the values you select are included. For example, if you filter for students who are currently in 5th grade, then the data will show students who are currently enrolled and in 5th grade now over the selected years (when they were in previous grades).
If you filter or compare only by gender or primary ethnicity, the data will include both students who are enrolled now and those who were enrolled in the past so that you can see if there were differences in performance by gender or ethnicity over time. This is also true when you filter or compare by school level and/or school region.
See Student Information and Characteristics for more information.
Compare By Student Information and Characteristics or by School Data
Use the Compare By drop-down list to choose to compare students by grades, EL status, gender, primary ethnicity, school level, school region, or school.
You can then hover over a point on a line on the graph to see more information as shown below.
Other Views
Take advantage of the other views. For example, select Table to see the data in a table instead of a graph.
Or select Distribution to see distribution graphs instead of trend lines:
Each section of the stacked bars on the distribution graph includes the percentage and number of students included in that segment of results. For instance, in the example above, for Fall 2023-2024 (the last bar in the example), we can see that 208 students, or 32.2%, of those assessed in that district screening window achieved "At/Above Benchmark" for the metric. This helps you deepen your analysis of results and compare percentages across time periods.
Print or Export Data
Whether you're viewing a table or a chart, you can use the two options at the top of the page to export the current view. The camera icon downloads the view as a PNG image file. The CSV icon
downloads a CSV file of data that you can open in a spreadsheet program.