Friday, September 23, 2016

STAR SCREENER ACCOMODATIONS from Lysette

This was sent in an email to Principals on 9/23 

Ongoing progress monitoring is the key to determining whether current intervention efforts are effective and where corrective action is needed.  Please remember that per RtI district guidelines, progress monitoring of tiered students should occur every 4 weeks with STAR Reading and STAR Early Literacy as it is done for Math.   

In addition, there have been questions about the use of oral accommodations on STAR.  We understand that the BOY screener has already been administered, but please adhere to the following going forward:   
    
1. Students with IEP/504 plans which call for additional time can use the built in extended time option for reading and math.
2. Students with IEP/504 plans which call for oral administration can use the built in audio feature for math only. 
3.  Because this is a normed referenced test and we want to maintain the validity of the results, the recommendation from Renaissance is to not read the test items to students.  However, if the universal screener is specifically addressed in a student’s IEP/504 plan to be read aloud to the student, then the plan should be followed as outlined.

Please share these procedures with the appropriate members of your staff.

Thank you for all the work you do!


Lysette Reeves, M.Ed.

RTI, Dyslexia & 504 Specialist

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