Florida Department of Education



2017–2018 Florida Kindergarten Readiness Screener (FLKRS) Star Early Literacy Preview Webinar

Webinar Transcript

May 3, 2017

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I want to welcome everyone to our webinar presentations today, which will cover the new Florida K-Readiness screener, or FLKRS, which is now going to be Star Early Literacy. Before we get started, I want to give you a quick note on how to post questions for the presenters to answer.

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Once you’ve logged into the session, you should be able to see a questions panel on your screen on the right-hand side, which you can use to submit your questions during the session. We have session support staff that will be compiling the questions for the presenters during the Q & A session at the end of the webinar. If by chance we don’t get to answer your question, or you have additional questions after we’ve finished up, you’ll still be able to submit them to me, Ed Croft, at Ed.Croft@. Or, if you have technical questions about the system platform for Star Early Literacy, there’s also a contact email for Renaissance Learning at FLKReadiness@. And if you didn’t get those emails, don’t worry. We have a slide, slide 11, which contains our contact emails, which you’ll be able to see.

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Florida Department of Education wants to welcome Renaissance Learning Incorporated as Florida’s selected contractor for implementation of the new FLKRS instrument, which is the Star Early Literacy assessment.

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Also with us today on the panelist side, we have Vince Verges, Director of Assessment at the Florida Department of Education; Cassandra Grayson, who is a Program Manager with FDOE and the Division of Technology and Innovation, and she has been providing excellent project support for the new FLKRS program. They have me, Ed Croft, Program Specialist with the FDOE’s Bureau of K-12 Student Assessment. And last but not least, Tracy Daw, who is Renaissance Learning’s Director of Project Management, who is going to be our main presenter for this afternoon’s webinar.

Before we get to the main topic of the webinar, which is the Star Early Literacy system, we thought it would be helpful to give you some background information on Florida’s adoption of the new FLKRS instrument. The topics covered here are briefly going to include, of course the statutory requirements for FLRKS, the procurement process that we used to award the contract, some milestones that are going to be coming up very quickly this year for implementation of FLKRS, also some brief information on State Board rule development that will be implementing details of how the new FLKRS assessment will be used in calculating the Kindergarten Readiness Rate. And some contact information on key FDOE program areas that work with FLKRS, as well as department and vendor contacts for implementation of FLKRS.

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On to the Statutory Requirements for Florida Kindergarten Readiness Screener. The statute is not new; it has been in place for several years. It is section 1002.69, which requires that every kindergarten student that is enrolled in kindergarten will be assessed by the kindergarten screening instrument within their first 30 days of school. The screener is also required to be based on performance standards that are adopted by the department in compliance with section 1002.67, Florida Statute, which is really for the VPK program and those standards for the Florida early learning and developmental standards for 4-year-olds. The screener is also to be used for calculating the kindergarten readiness rate, which includes the readiness rate for students who were enrolled in a voluntary prekindergarten education program, or VPK. And it’s also worth noting that the new assessment is going to replace the previous FLKRS assessment, which was the Work Sampling System, or the WSS.

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Couple notes about the procurement process. So, as we know now, Renaissance Learning Incorporated has been selected as the contract for the new FLKRS. In seeking a new FLKRS instrument to replace the Work Sampling System, the FDOE did review responses from competing testing organizations and selected Renaissance Learning as the winning respondent from three finalists. Renaissance Star Early Literacy assessment is going to be the single screening instrument used to meet the statutory requirements for FLKRS. So will be the only assessment we need to use for that purpose. Star Early Literacy proved to be an attractive product for several reasons. One, it’s essentially ready to go as an instrument for meeting the FLKRS requirements. It’s already aligned to Florida standards, and it is already in use in several Florida school districts in evaluating kindergarten students.

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Also, it’s worth noting that the current contract is a three-year contract, with an option for three, one-year renewals. Some milestones to keep in mind as we’re coming up on them rapidly. These include some June regional train-the-trainer sessions on the Star Early Literacy platform. You can see the locations and dates there on the first bullet, June 13 through June 22, in the five cities of Tampa, Miami, Orlando, Tallahassee, and Jacksonville. These regional train-the-trainer sessions are designed for district-level staff who in return will train school-level staff who will be administering the assessments. Our morning sessions at those locations are really pretty much filled up now, but we do have a few openings for the afternoon sessions. If you want more detail on the train-the-trainer sessions, you might want to look at an email that was sent out from Victoria Ash on March 21. You could also contact me, Ed Croft, at the email address there, Ed.Croft@. The testing window that we’re planning for FLKRS is going to open on July 10, 2017n and will close on October 20, 2017. This window is designed to accommodate variation of school districts and schools and their start date. Again, keeping in mind that by statute, schools are required to test their kindergarten students within the first 30 days of their respective start date on FLKRS.

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We do have some additional dates to note. There’s a conference, annual conference for Florida Association of MIS Directors, or FAMIS conference, is going to be held this year in Daytona Beach. Nice area. It’s going to be from June 27 through June 29, and we have reserved slots for Renaissance Learning to do a presentation on system requirements and setup for the Star Early Literacy platform. That presentation is scheduled to be on June 27t and will start at about 12:30. For more details to come so you may want to check the website, and the URL here is provided on the slide that you see. So that would be very useful I think for people who are interested in the setup for Star Early Literacy.

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Also, a note on State Board rule development. There is a current Florida Administrative Code rule that addresses kindergarten readiness rate calculation amd the requirements for that calculation to evaluate accountability for VPK providers. The rule is 6M-8.601. It’s expected to maintain that rule number as the rule is updated to account for the new FLKRS instrument, Star Early Literacy, and how that is used to calculate the readiness rate for Kindergarten students. We don’t yet have the benchmark score that determines what readiness is on the new test; that will be coming of course. And for the latest development, latest information on rule development, you can also go to the website maintained by the Administrative Code and Register, and that is at . You can go there and type in the rule number in the search field and pull up the latest information on the rule.

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Finally, the next couple slides give you some good links for key FDOE program areas and contacts that have been involved with FLKRS in the past and/or will continue to be involved with FLKRS as it has an impact on their particular program areas. The first area there is the Florida Office of Early Learning; it’s got a URL there. For contacts in that office, you can click on the link that’s provided and pull up individual contacts for the people that are particular, have particular interests in FLKRS are the staff members that work in the VPK area of the Office of Early Learning. And they are involved in providing advisement for revision of the rules on the kindergarten readiness calculation. Also, the Just Read, Florida! office has in the past had involvement with FLKRS, with regard to the Progress Monitoring and Reporting Network, or PMRN. That’s been involved with past administration with FLKRS. It’s worth noting that the PMRN will no longer be utilized to record or report future FLKRS data. The public schools may continue to utilize PMRN to monitor student progress in reading in grades 3 through 12 using the FAIR-FS. There is an email for the Just Read, Florida! office there at the bottom bullet, and also a contact phone number.

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Finally, when it comes to questions you might have about implementing the FLKRS in the next few months I’m probably going to be your initial go to contact. So you’ve got my email address there at the first bullet. That’s Ed.Croft@. Also, Cassandra Grayson at FDOE is providing a lot of program support for FLKRS implementation, and we have Cassandra’s email address there at Cassandra.Grayson@. Vince Verges is an acting contract manager for the FLKRS contract at the DOE, and you have his contact address here as well. And for Renaissance Learning, Renaissance Place has set up an email address for questions pertaining to technical issues with the setup, and that is flkreadiness@. They’re also able to field additional questions you might have about getting set up to administer Star Early Literacy. So, I think that covers the introductory part of today’s presentation, and now I’d like to turn it over to Tracy Daw, who will be giving you the nuts and bolts of the Star Early Literacy platform.

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Alright, Thanks Ed. I’ll introduce myself again, I’m the Director of Project Management from Renaissance Learning. I’m responsible for working with Ed, Cassandra, and Vince on the implementation of the K-Readiness assessment. I appreciate everybody who has called in today to listen and for those who are going to hear this on-demand. Hopefully we can answer a lot of your questions; I actually already see some questions coming in, so appreciate that. Keep those questions coming. As Ed mentioned, when we get to the end of my presentation, we’re going to hopefully have some time to answer as many questions as you have. If you have more questions, please feel free to submit those to flkreadiness@. We’re going to be putting together an FAQ after the webinar with all the questions that come in and any other questions that might be specific to Florida K-Readiness. We’ll be making those available to you, so stay tuned for that. One other thing I wanted to mention. There will be a website, a webpage set up that’s specific to the Florida K-Readiness assessment. It’s going to be a dedicated website. I call it a one stop shop, if you will. We’ll have resources there; we’ll have recorded webinars; we’ll have manuals and so forth. We’ll even set aside a part or a section of that website where you can access your district’s Renaissance Place Florida K-Readiness site if you’d like to do that. So stay tuned for more information on that as well.

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At Renaissance, we are very passionate and very committed to our mission, which is, “To accelerate learning for all children and adults of all ability levels and ethnic and social backgrounds, worldwide.

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I’m going to be covering these bullets here in the sessions today. First we’re going to be talking about setting up the Renaissance Place site for K-Readiness screener. For those of you who are not familiar with Renaissance products, whenever I talk about Renaissance Place or RP, that’s referring to the assessment platform. It’s one platform for students to get in and take the assessments, for test administrators and teachers and so forth to get in and set up their students and look at reports and so forth. So, the Renaissance Place platform is a web-based application where we’re going to be taking that K-Readiness screener. I’m going to give you a quick overview of the Star Early Literacy assessment; we’ll then move on to what the student experience is going to look like. I’ll take a look at the reports that are available. And those of you who are current Renaissance Place customers or users, you know there are a lot of reports available. What I did was earmark those reports that are going to be very specific to the K-Readiness assessment. It’s essentially like a one-and-done if you will. The purpose is to test these students at the beginning of the school year, a one-time assessment, so I’ve got some reports that will give you information specific to the purpose of this assessment. We’ll walk through those for student, class, school, and district. After that we’re going to take a look at the support and resources that are going to be available to you, and then I mentioned with any time we have remaining we’ll go through and answer some of these questions, as many of the questions we can that are coming in.

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So, setting up Renaissance Place.

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There’s a lot of districts and schools right now that are currently using our products. We will be setting up a K-Readiness specific Renaissance Place site for every district in the state. So even if you have a district-level RP site, or Renaissance Place site, we will be setting up for the purposes of this assessment for reporting to state and so forth, a dedicated K-readiness, RP, site for that purpose. Rostering the students is going to be one of the big hurdles that we need to jump over, but I think that we can get that coordinated and handle that successfully. There is going to be three options for that. So for districts and schools that have active Renaissance products for next school year, for the 2017-2018 school year, we will be able to take their K student roster information, not all the data, their assessment data, but their K student roster information, and we will move that over to, copy that if you will, and put that into their district K-Readiness site. So their students will be set up and ready to go. One thing that I want to point and, I’m going to reference this several times throughout the webinar, it is a requirement that you need to have a Florida identification ID for those students. So, we need to have that state Florida ID plugged in for each one of those students. So, when we, if you don’t have those Florida IDs in your student information system or in your existing Renaissance Place site, we need you to get those IDs for those K students and get that plugged in so when we submit that data to the state, we need to have those unique identifiers for them. So, again, when we move your students from your existing site, to the K-readiness site, if those IDs aren’t there, we’ll need to get into the K-Readiness site and plug in those state IDs. So, option number 2, if you are a district or school that is not currently using Renaissance Place or Renaissance Products, there’s two options for you. One of them is submitting a roster template, and I’m going to go through what the steps of that looks like. And then there’s manually entering K student information directly into Renaissance Place. That’s something that probably everybody, whether you’re an existing customer, or existing user or not, you’re going to have students who register late or come in late, and you’re going to have to manually enter those into the site and I’ll show you how to manually do that as well.

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So rostering your students, like I mentioned there is going to be that Florida K-Readiness webpage, this is going to be one of the resources that is available. If you’d like us to email you this template, send an email to the flkreadiness@. We can send it to you. It’s a spreadsheet; there’s going to be two tabs in that spreadsheet. The first tab is just simply a list of column definitions; it gives you basically just a list of all the data elements that we need. Some of them are optional. If you see here an entry criteria that says blank, it’s an optional data element that we need. But I’ll point out a couple of them here for example: student ID. This one right here is your district-based ID. We don’t necessarily need that, but if you want to put it in there for running reports in your own site, that’s fine. If you look at the student username, that one is also optional; if it’s left blank in the roster and we upload that into the Renaissance Place website, a username will automatically be generated for that student. And the format for that username is the first letter of the first name and the first four letters of the last name. It’s a really nice format, but there are some limitations. For example, if you’ve got a very large school, you’ve got a lot of kindergartener students in your school, and you’ve got a John Smith and a Jane Smith, the username is going to be the same. So, the way we remedy that when we import your roster, we will put a 1 at the end of one of those usernames. Probably not a big deal just because of the fact that these are kindergarten students; you’re going to have a teacher, a proctor, or a test administrator helping get these students logged into the site. So, you’ll probably be okay with that. Another option would be to take your state ID and plug that in as the student username. So, a couple of options there I just want to make you aware of that. I’ll point out again that this Florida education ID is required. We need to get those plugged into the Florida K-Readiness Renaissance Place site for reporting this information to the site. Another area I’m going to point out here is non-participation. The state needs to know if a student is not going to participate; there needs to be a little bit of accountability there as far as why they didn’t participate. There are several characteristics in the Renaissance Place site that are already set up. I’ve actually captured the majority of them that I think these students would fall into. So, if your student isn’t going to participate and they have one of these disabilities or one of these characteristics, just make sure and enter the code for that characteristic into your roster. If you are a district or school with or that are currently using the product, you will need to get into the Florida K-Readiness RP site, and if you’ve got those students that fall into the non-participation category, to get in and check those characteristics so we can submit that data to the state.

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So, that’s the first tab of the rostering template. This is the second tab. I took and separated this out so you wouldn’t have to strain your eyes to see really small, but these are the columns and the rows. You need to enter this information for each one of the students.

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When you’re ready to submit your template, this is what the process looks like. You’ve heard us say this flkreadiness@ several times. Just simply send an email to us. Say, I’m ready to submit my template; include your district name. We will then send you an email with information on how to upload that roster. Now, don’t email these templates to it. We cannot accept these rosters through email; that would be a violation of FERPA. So if you email it, it will just be deleted. We have set up a very secure transfer process through an SFTP site. It’s so secure as a matter of fact that, if we accidentally gave you the wrong district information or you gave us the wrong district information, if you logged in to upload that roster, even if there were files there, you cannot download those files. All you can do is write your roster to that SFTP site. So send us an email. Say your template’s ready. Give us your district name. We will send you an email with the URL, the username, and password. Simply upload your file to that site, and we’ll get that imported into your Florida K-Readiness RP site. I encourage you to try to get it all done in one shot, one roster. You can submit the roster several times. Individual schools can submit their rosters, but try to do it all in one shot. Because if we get multiple rosters coming in, you run into the possibility of duplicate students. An example of why you might want to submit a roster a second time is if you entered, transposed a number or something on the roster the first time. You say, “Well, I’m going to correct that and submit the roster again.” If you do that, that’s going to create a duplicate in your site, and we’ll have to sort those out. So if you for some reason submit a roster, there was an error, we’ll want you to get into the Renaissance Place site and edit that student and fix it there.

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So that’s the rostering. Like I mentioned before, you’re going to have students probably enroll late, you’re going to enter them into the site, and you’ll want to do that manually.

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Here’s the process for doing that. So, once you log into—you go to the URL. This is the log in screen. You’ll click on teacher/administrator.

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That’s going to take you to the username and password.

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Enter that information. Here is the Renaissance Place homepage. You’ll simply click on users.

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That’s going to take you to another screen where you click on “Add Student.”

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That’s going to bring up a form. Start filling in the information. You can see which fields are required by the asterisk here. There’s some that are required that you don’t have to fill in. Like I mentioned before, the username—if you don’t fill that in, it’s automatically going to generate a username of first letter of the first name, four letters of the last name. As far as password goes, I would recommend that you enter something very simple. ABC, maybe ABC123. Again, as I mentioned before, since this is kindergarten students, you’re going to have a test proctor or a test administrator helping these kids get logged in. A best practice would be just put the same password for each one of these students so that you are, you know, so you can easily get them logged in. If you want to have different passwords, that’s fine. I would just encourage you to keep them simple. I’ll point this out again, state ID is required. Make sure that’s plugged in here. I would not recommend checking the box to change the username at the first log-in since, again, these are kindergarten students and you’ll have a teacher/administrator logging them in. If you got one student, just click save. If you’ve got more than one student, click save and add, and go through the process of getting all these students added into the site.

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Okay, if you’ve got all your students rostered into the site, you’re ready to test them. Let’s—before we show you the student experience,

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let me give you a little information on Star Early Literacy for folks that might not be familiar with that. It is a computer-adaptive assessment. There’s 27 item that assess the early literacy/numeracy skills. It’s designed for students who do not yet read independently, and it’s generally given to students ages 3 to 9.

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There’s three domains that we cover. There’s 10 subdomains, and there’s 42 skill areas that we cover, and you might be asking yourself, “He just told us that it’s a 27-question assessment. How can we assess 42 skill-levels?” Well, it’s what we call IRT, or Item Response Theory. If a student answers a skill level or particular skill successfully, we know that that student with a very high probability knows several other lesser skills, so that’s kind of how that works. We do cover very successfully all 42 skills covered in this page here.

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How does a computer adaptive test work? In Renaissance Place, what it does is it takes a look at that customer’s, or that student’s grade level, and it’s going to start them on a question that’s very basic to the grade level that they’re in. If the student answers that question correctly, it will give them a harder question. If they answer that one correctly, it will give them a harder question. If they answer that incorrectly, easier, harder, easier, and it progresses through the 27 questions until it gets to the end. Now you’ll see on these first few questions here, the standard error of measurement is very high. We don’t know where the student is at based on their first few questions, where they’re at as far as skill mastery, and where they’re at in their learning progression. But you can see as we get to the end of this assessment, we can with very high level of accuracy know exactly where the student is at in their learning progression and what their percentage of mastery is on each one of these skills. So, that’s how the computer-adaptive test works.

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Star Early Literacy is, the scaled score scale is 300 to 900. Ed mentioned that they are going to be setting some benchmarks, scaled score. So you can kind of refer back to this when you’re reviewing the reports. You can know that the scaled score is from 300 to 900. Stay tuned for some information on what some of those benchmarks might be.

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You’ve got your students rostered into your system. I’m going to show you what the student experience looks like. But before I jump into this, there’s a few resources I’m going to show you in a minute here. Before you test your students, make sure that you take the time to. I’m going to show you a resource where you can show the student how to use a mouse. It’s a great exercise, resource. We’re going to have that available on the Florida K-Readiness webpage along with some checklists so that test administrators are ready and the students are ready. When they’re ready to sit down and take that assessment, they’re not worried about the technology. They’re familiar with the technology. They just need to focus on answering the question correctly.

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You’re ready to test your students. You log into that Florida K-Readiness RP site. Click on “I’m a student.”

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Enter the username and password.

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You’ll then click on the Star Early Literacy icon. It will take you to a screen where it has several practice items. The purpose of this practice items is to make sure you’re ready to go. It’s an opportunity for you to talk to your students during the practice period. Have them raise their hand if the technology’s not working, if their headphones aren’t working, so that when the actual questions begin on the assessment, they’re ready to go. Once you’re done with the practice questions,

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it will congratulate you and tell you you’re ready to go on the test. This is what the format of the questions look like. You’ve got the three possible answers. Up here in the right-hand corner, you’ll see the rabbit here with its ears bent down. When the ears are bent down, that means the question is being read to the student.

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As soon as the question is done being read, you’ll see it’s ears pop up, and you’ll see a Next button appear. So the students can then select whatever answer they feel is correct. If they inadvertently answered the wrong answer, they can select another one. And when they’re ready to submit, they hit next. Now, if they need to have the question read to them again, just simply click on this little icon and the question will be read again. And when they’re ready to advance to the next question,

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just hit Next. Couple more things, more details on the assessment, all the practice items we talked about. There are time limits for each one of these questions, 90 seconds per question. When there are 15 seconds left, there’s going to be a little timer pop up in the upper bar here of the question, letting the student know there’s a little bit of time left to go ahead and select an answer to move on. If there’s something that happens—if a student needs to use the restroom, they get sick—you can pause or stop the assessment. The difference between the two is if you stop it, for whatever reason, there’s technology issues. The student will come back and start over from question one. If you do resume later, you have eight days to bring that student back in, and it will start at exactly the same question they left off, and they can finish their assessment. Either one of these options you need to enter a monitor password, so the student doesn’t inadvertently launch this and log out by themselves. They’ll have to enter a monitor password and hit ok, and the assessment will exit.

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So, the students have taken the test; you want to look at some of those results. Let’s look at some of these reports here. Like I mentioned, I took and show some reports that would be kind of specific to what you might want to see with this K-Readiness assessment.

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To access those reports, you’ll go back to the Renaissance Place homepage, click on “Early Literacy.”

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Click on “Reports,” and that’s going to take you to the list of reports. From here, you’ll go ahead and select the reports. There are several preferences

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for each one of these reports. You’ll see that it looks like some of these reports I’m showing you are duplicate, but there are preferences for each one of these reports to show you either student, class, or even grade-level information. So, for the student level, there’s three reports you might want to take a look at. The Student Diagnostic, Instructional Planning,

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and a Parent Report. The Student Diagnostic Report is going to show you the student scaled score. It’s going to show you where that student is as far as a literacy classification based on a scaled score range: Early Emergent, Late Emergent, Transitional, or Probable Reader. And then, based on the scaled score, it’s going to show you the mastery of each one of those skills. You can see that this student scored very high.

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The Instructional Planning Report is a nice report. It’s going to show you where that student scored, the scaled score, and then you’ll see this note up here, based on research, 50% of the students at the school level will achieve this much growth. It will show you kind of what the projected growth based on a lot of data that we’ve collected through millions of assessments of where a student starts and where they’re projected to end up. But also, gives you a list of skills that that student, based on where they’re at right now, is ready to learn next. It’s a very useful report for instructional planning.

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There’s a Parent Report that you can send home. It shows you the scaled score, where they’re at for the literacy classification, and a little bit more information about scaled score and so forth. So that’s a nice report you can send home to the parent.

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For the class level.

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A couple of the same reports. The class diagnostic will actually show you across the entirety of your entire class and how they did with regards to, you know, the mastery of the skills.

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The Instructional Planning Report is nice from a class perspective because you can take and group your students in different groups based on how they performed. And it will give you a list of skills for those particular groups

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that you can work on with those students. Then there’s the Screening Report. This is going to show you a nice graphical look at how all your class did with regards to the benchmark categories: Above Benchmark, On Watch, Intervention, and Urgent Intervention.

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School level.

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Some more similar reports. The Diagnostic here. It looks like the Class Diagnostic report, but, what this does is, it prints it out for the entire, for all the Kindergarteners

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in your entire school. A Summary Report is going to show you when your students tested, their scaled score, their sub-domain score, and their literacy classification for all your kindergarten students.

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And then, similar to the Class Report, you can run the Screening Report for your entire kindergarten. All your kindergarteners in your school.

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Some district level reports that you’re going to want to look at as a district administrator: Screening Report, Percentage Tested, and Current Score Median.

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Let’s see what they look like. You can see right here that this district has a lot of schools. Each one of these bands represents a school. If you’re in a district that has a lot less schools, three or four, you’ll actually see the name of that school written on that band. But you can come in here and click on any one of these bands, and it will give you information on that school. You’ll see down here in the right-hand corner there’s a little legend that shows you how your entire district did as an aggregate, with regards to the benchmark categories.

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Here is an example of a district with one school. You can click on that band. It will show you information on Urgent Intervention. At or above for example.

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So, in this previous report, if you click on any one of these bands, you can get this information here.

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District Percentage Tested. I really encourage the district assessment coordinators to take a look at this periodically to see if there are schools you need to give a little nudge to, to get your testing done for that school. Again, here’s a district with a lot of schools. You click on any one of these bands and it’ll tell you what that school is and percentage of students tested.

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Very nice report to kind of see how you’re progressing. And then the Current Score Median. This is something you can take a look at either during testing or after testing and see how well each one of your schools did in comparison to the other schools as well in your district.

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Let’s look at the support and resources we have available. If you go back to the Renaissance Place homepage, go to Star Early Literacy, click on resources, you’ll see a lot of great resources in here. “What is Star Early Literacy? Tips for Getting Started.” There’s an abridged technical manual, and we’re going to take a lot of this specific to Star Early Literacy and make that available on the Florida K-Readiness website as well. There’s two resources in here in particular I want to show you. When I talked about getting your students ready to take the assessment, there’s two resources that you should really take a look at to make sure your students and you are prepared to assess your students.

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One of that, one of those, is the introductory video. It’s a very nice tutorial video. It’s very short; it’s about four or five minutes. You can either take your students to a lab and spend fifteen to twenty minutes have them look at this video and have them do hands-on practice, or you can throw it up on the projector in your classroom and have them look at that. We’ve had, we’ve done K-Readiness assessments in other states, and this resource right here has been invaluable in getting the students ready and comfortable and prepared to take the assessment. So, along with this video, we’re coupling that with a little practice session where they can go through and click on three or four questions to get comfortable using the mouse, using the keyboard to answer these questions. That resource is going to be available on the K-Readiness website as well.

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And you can access it through the resources here in Renaissance Place. The second one I want to point out

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is the pretest instructions. I encourage you to print this out. It’s a nice checklist of what you need to do to be ready, for you and your students to be ready to test so that you can test them with a high level of fidelity.

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Technical support. There’s several ways you can reach out to us if you need some technical assistance. Live chat: if you look in the upper right-hand corner here, you just click on the headphones here. It brings up a chat session. You enter your information. The nice thing about this is, is if you access the chat through your Florida K-Readiness RP site, our technical support reps will know that it is a question specific to the K-Readiness assessment. So they can really drill in and help you out with any questions there. Or if you need to call, here is the 800 number. The hours for both the live chat and the phone the number are 7:30am to 8:00pm Eastern Time. If you’ve got a question you want to ask outside of those hours, just go ahead and send an email to support@. Or you can also send that to flkreadiness@ as well. Thank you everybody for attending and thank you, Ed. And thank you, Tracy, for the good information that you provided. Absolutely, thanks everyone, and we’ll go ahead and end the webinar.

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