The difference between understanding something and missing it entirely is often the gap between instruction and teacher evaluation. By the time a student is found to have misunderstood a concept they’ve been taught, it can be too late. The wrong idea has already taken root before the teacher has realised it, and it’s now their job to somehow try and shift the incorrect thinking while instilling the correct one at the same time.
But keeping across every student’s progress and understanding can at times be a gargantuan task, especially considering modern class sizes and the pressure of mandated curricula to always be moving on and teaching new things.
CARS & STARS Online is a digital reading comprehension system that provides instant snapshots of learning progress on an ongoing basis. Unlike with old-fashioned instruction where teachers are the gatekeepers of student results – and those tasked with the burden of delivering them to others when asked – CARS & STARS Online allows teachers, principals, parents and especially students themselves to be able to access a complete picture of student progress whenever they want. All relevant stakeholders can access the information directly, meaning anyone with a right to see it can be appraised of learning progress instantly.
Whereas once a principal or coordinator might have had to badger a teacher until they received the results for a student or class, CARS & STARS Online makes this process instant and requires no liaising with anyone else. The teacher isn’t bothered by having to prepare results, because they’re already automatically there in the system, and the coordinator or principal can access them directly themselves without having to even let the teacher know that they’re going to do it. Anyone who has been given access to the results in the CARS & STARS Online program has the same ability to access results data as anyone else.
What’s more, CARS & STARS Online allows teachers, coordinators and principals to have instant snapshots of student, class, level or whole-school progress instantly on an ongoing basis, allowing easy comparison between students or groups without any additional work.
CARS & STARS Online is the easiest way to keep track of results across student cohorts, because it does so automatically without any teacher intervention required and makes them accessible to all stakeholders easily and instantly for quick and direct comparison.
If you are interested in learning more about the CARS & STARS Online subscriptions and how they can help children to achieve better results, then sign up for a free trial to be an integral part of your child’s reading success.
