Longitudinal Report
Who can do this with default capabilities?
District Level Administrators, District Staff, School Level Administrators, School Staff, Teachers
The Longitudinal Report uses Star Early Literacy assessment data to compare growth for the same group of students across multiple years (the "growth" version of the report), or a specific grade level (different students) across multiple years (the "cross-sectional" version of the report). This report is also available to customers in states where linking has been completed and customers in states participating in the Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO)/Renaissance Learning R&D consortium.
Method 1—From the Star Early Literacy Enterprise Home Page
- Click Star Early Literacy on the Home page, then click Enterprise Home.
- Select your school from the School drop-down list, if necessary.
- Click either Growth or Cross Sectional
.
- Click Growth for a report that measures growth for a single grade of students across multiple years.
- Click Cross Sectional for a report that measures growth for multiple grades during a single year.
Method 2—From the Star Early Literacy Reports page
- Click Star Early Literacy on the Home page, then click Reports.
- Select your school from the School drop-down list, if necessary.
- Click Longitudinal on the Select Report page.
- On the Longitudinal Report page, click either Growth or Cross Sectional .
- Click Growth for a report that measures growth for a single grade of students
across multiple years.
- Click Cross Sectional for a report that measures growth for multiple grades during
a single year.
Method 3—From the Screening, Progress Monitoring & Intervention page
- Click Star Early Literacy on the Home page, then click Screening, Progress Monitoring & Intervention.
- If necessary, use the School drop-down list to choose your school.
- Click Longitudinal under "Reports" in the gray sidebar on the left side of the screen
.
- On the Longitudinal Report page, click either Growth or Cross Sectional
.
- Click Growth for a report that measures growth for a single grade of students across multiple years.
- Click Cross Sectional for a report that measures growth for multiple grades during a single year.
- Select the options
you want to customize for this report on the Report Options page. When you customize this report, you can choose these options:
Choose a school to run the report for; district level administrators and district staff can select All Schools.
Choose either a single grade, All Grades, or click Select Specific Grades to the right of the drop-down list to select multiple grades.
Choose the version of the report you want to print: the Cross-Sectional version, or the Growth version.
If you choose the Growth version of this report, you may also check the Only include students who tested in all timeframes box to exclude certain students from the data.
The Growth version of the Longitudinal Report tracks the same group of students as they progress from one grade to the next. It is possible that some students joined this group after it began taking Star Early Literacy assessments (for example, by transferring in from another school), or it may be possible that some students missed an assessment. Checking the Only include students who tested in all timeframes box will remove those students from the data in the report.
Choose the number of school years (Last 2 Years-Last 5 Years) and which time of year to use for comparison—either Aug 1 - Sep 30 (Fall) or Apr 1 - May 31 (Spring).
Click Update 
to see how your choices affect the data shown in the table. After changing any of the options, click Update for the refreshed data to appear. (While the data is updating, you can click Cancel to stop the update.)
If you only wanted to see the data (without having to print the report), click Done 
. Otherwise, click Print 
to print the report.