Because most things in CARS & STARS Online are multiple choice, no teacher marking is required. In the CARS module and most of the STARS and FOCUS Reading modules too, students enter their answer into the software for each question, selecting one of four options. Students can 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 their progress.
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.
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 for multiple-choice questions. Marking is often overlooked when others try to make a full accounting of a teacher’s time. As every teacher knows, it can take a lot longer than they might expect, and a lot longer than it should. With CARS & STARS Online, this time is freed up for literally anything else.
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. CARS & STARS Online saves teachers time and effort – so they can focus on the more important things.
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.
