CARS & STARS Online is a digital reading comprehension program based around the repeated application of twelve core reading strategies to make students better readers who can analyse and interpret any text at a high level of understanding.
Because everything in CARS & STARS Online is multiple choice, no teacher marking is required. Students enter their answer into the software for each question, selecting one of four options. Students are able to demonstrate understanding in a succinct way that might not be possible with longer written answers, and teachers are able to forgo the process of reading over and interpreting student responses because the program will tell them if the student has achieved the correct answer by the time they see the student’s progress.
Uniformity of answer selection means all students have the same opportunity to respond correctly, and no student has an unfair advantage over any other. Whereas a student undertaking a written response might be able to understand the concept they’re being asked about but not quite be able to express it in such a way that they can demonstrate their understanding, multiple-choice questions level the playing field for everyone. They also require less time to fill out and offer less distraction from the concepts being discussed than longer written answers.
The main benefit of the multiple-choice approach, however, is to teachers. As previously mentioned, the program marks all responses automatically and so no teacher marking is required. But the real advantage of CARS & STARS Online is how the program then presents these results for expert interpretation and analysis. Teachers, administrators, parents and students alike have equal access to results, which can be viewed for individual students, groups, classrooms and even entire schools. All this is done as an automatic function of the program, whereas such comparison would not long ago have required a lot of manual labour on behalf of teachers.
The multiple-choice options in CARS & STARS Online offer a consistent and simplified, yet powerful way for students to demonstrate their understanding, while making it easier for teachers to view and compare results, instantly.
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.
