With CARS & STARS Online, results are more powerful than ever. And they’re more easily collected, displayed and usefully harnessed, all by a process that occurs automatically and instantly, and which requires no direct teacher intervention to complete.
From within CARS & STARS Online itself, teachers can access instant overviews of student progress that show how well they are progressing through the various levels of the program, and which areas might need to be targeted for remediation. But this simple overview of a single student’s results is only the beginning.
Class teachers can just as quickly and easily bring up an overview of a group of students, or even the whole class. This takes no more time than viewing the results of a single student and allows easy comparison and planning for instruction on a whole-class basis.
School principals, coordinators or administrators with access to the program can also easily see results – and they can go for an even wider picture, viewing them for groups of classes, year levels or even entire schools.
All of this would previously have required a lot of work – to collect the results, then collate them, then tabulate them in a form for easy comparison, and then to combine with the work of many other teachers undertaking the same arduous process. With CARS & STARS Online, it’s automatic – and there if you need it.
The pursuit and use of informed data can like this can make the difference between a good classroom and a great one. Why should teachers be left out of the equation when data is reshaping so many aspects of life in the digital age?
The effective use of data in the classroom can improve instruction and student outcomes, as teachers can better tailor for individual student needs as well as maintaining an ongoing, more accurate grasp of general classroom progress at the same time.
Ongoing, accurate and transferable data collection at every stage of instruction and assessment with CARS & STARS Online allows the teacher to have a total picture of their class and individual students at any time, allowing instant identification of students requiring specialised care or instruction, and making differentiation a constant and ongoing process for every class rather than an afterthought.
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.
