Diagnostic Report

The Diagnostic Report provides an individual skills assessment and other diagnostic information for each of the students you have selected. This report helps teachers determine how to improve their students' performance. It also supports a direct discussion with an individual student's parents or guardians.

Each student's report prints on a separate page. The report includes each student's name, grade, teacher, class, ID, Scaled Score (SS), Grade Equivalent (GE), Percentile Rank (PR), Percentile Rank range, Normal Curve Equivalent (NCE), and recommended Accelerated Math Live library.

The Diagnostic Report also includes:

• charts that show the student's progress toward mastering Numeration and Computation objectives.
• suggestions for how the student can achieve additional growth, especially if the student falls below the 25th percentile.

When you print this report for a student who has taken a Star Math Enterprise test, there are four additional options available: Test Type, Benchmark, Show Skill Area Scores, and Use Trend Score. If a student has taken both a Star Math test and a Star Math Enterprise test, the report will use the data from the most recent test.

1. Click Star Math on the Home page, then click Reports.
2. Select your school from the School drop-down list, if necessary.
3. Click Diagnostic on the Select Report page.
4. 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:
   
   

   Select Students

   Use the drop-down list to choose all the students in a specific class, or click Students, Classes, or Groups to choose specific students, classes, or groups. ("Groups" refers to groups of students that have been created specifically for reporting purposes.)

   • When selecting specific students, you will see a checklist of all students enrolled in Star Math classes. Check each student you want on the report, or check the Student box at the top of the column to select all of them.
   • When selecting specific classes, you will see a checklist of all Star Math classes. Check each class you want on the report, or check the Class box at the top of the column to select all of them.
   • When selecting specific groups, you will see a checklist of all student groups in Star Math classes. Check each group you want on the report, or check the Group box at the top of the column to select all of them.

   Once the desired students, classes, or groups have been selected and saved, you will return to the Report Options page.

   Reporting Parameter Group

   Reporting Period

   The Diagnostic Report shows data from a specific time period. You can use either a marking period that has been set up by a district level administrator/school level administrator for your school, or you can set your own range by choosing a starting and ending date.

   Test Type

   Use this option to choose which kind of test you want to create the report for: Enterprise, Algebra, or Geometry.

   Note: If Algebra or Geometry is chosen, Grade Equivalent (GE), Percentile Rank (PR), and Normal Curve Equivalent (NCE) scores will not be shown on the report, and the Benchmark, Use Trend Score, and Show Grade Equivalent options will not be available.

   Benchmark

   Use this option to see where a student's Scaled Score (SS) stands in relation to a particular benchmark: school, district, or state.

   Note: If Algebra or Geometry is chosen for the Test Type option, the Benchmark option will not be available.

   Use Trend Score

   Choose whether to use the trend score or the student's actual Scaled Score from the most recent test to determine the student's suggested skills.

   Note: If Algebra or Geometry is chosen for the Test Type option, the Use Trend Score option will not be available.

   Show Grade Equivalent

   Use this option to choose whether to show each student's GE score on the report.

   Note: If Algebra or Geometry is chosen for the Test Type option, the Show Grade Equivalent option will not be available.

   Show Skill Area Scores

   Use this option to show a student's skill area scores within each skill area: Numbers and Operations; Algebra; Geometry and Measurement; and Analysis, Probability, and Statistics.

   Show Student ID

   Choose this option to have students' ID numbers included on this report.

   Show Quantile® measures and Quantile® range

   Choose this option to have students' Quantile® measures and Quantile® ranges included on this report. At this time, Quantile® measures are not available for Star Math Spanish, Star Math Algebra, or Star Math Geometry assessments.

   Group By

   Choose how to group the information on the report: by class, grade, teacher, or not grouped.

   Note: This report uses both the Group By and Sort By options; if a Group By option is chosen, it is applied first on the report.

   Sort By

   Choose how to sort information on the report: by students' last names or by their student IDs.

   Note: This report uses both the Group By and Sort By options; if a Group By option is chosen, it is applied first on the report.

   Print Report Options

   Use this option to print a list of the options you've chosen on the report. If you decide to run the report again at a later date, you can refer to this list of options to make sure you're using the same ones.

5. Click View Report when you are finished choosing options.
6. Star Math will generate the report. When it's ready, the report will open in Adobe Reader, or your default PDF reader.