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2. What is STAR?  Warren County’s 7th grade Universal Screener  All 7th graders take it  Assessment identifying individual student needs  Replaces GRADE & GMADE

3. STAR is also…  Warren County’s progress monitoring tool for 8 th grade  Assessment that continually measures progress of students in identified areas  Reading  Math  Not all 8 th graders take it

4. Who takes STAR?  Students not meeting benchmark on the Universal Screener  What’s the 8 th grade Universal Screener?  EPAS (EXPLORE, PLAN, ACT)  Benchmarks?  “College Readiness Benchmarks are the minimum ACT test scores required for students to have a high probability of success in credit-bearing college courses.”  Reading: 15  Math: 17

5. EXPLORE Report

7. Will I take it?  EXPLORE results from last year (as 7 th graders)  Math < 16  Reading < 14  Transferred?  If not on file, yes  Private school? Yes  How many? 2/3 of 8 th graders  Lots of very high scores

8. What subjects?  Both Reading and Math  Why? Data

9. Is that me?  Notified by teacher  Curious why?  Cafeteria tomorrow