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This additional assessment, once we fine tune its administration, takes, on a national average, 20 minutes three times per year. We are also postponing the participation of Kindergarten students on this assessment until winter as we consider the best ways to contextualize and administer this in a way that is mindful of the challenges associated with assessing our youngest students.  \nUltimately, BUSD’s Educational Services Division believes that the level of specificity we will receive from these assessments regarding very specific reading challenges, when coupled with our core Teachers College Reading and Writing Project (TCRWP) curriculum and a newly adopted phonics component, will provide a holistic, complementary, and structured approach to early literacy that positions us for improving or sustaining the learning of all the students we are responsible to serve.  \nThe questions below reflect queries we have received from staff and anticipate from the community as we move forward.  \nQ: Why do we need another way to measure students’ reading ability?  \nAfter multiple years of looking at data and visiting classrooms, the Educational Services team feels that we need additional and more specific information about the root causes of reading struggles for our youngest students in order to better direct resources and make more informed decisions about support options.  \nAdditionally, the frequent disconnect we see between outcomes on TCRWP assessments and the SBA lead us to believe that another specific data point will be useful in supporting kids and understanding our broader literacy challenges in deeper detail.  \nFurthermore, the earliest non local assessment data in reading we get is from the SBA at the end of 3rd grade. With some persistent gaps between TCRWP and SBA scores, we need an earlier benchmark to effectively support our most underserved students.  \nQ: Is this STAR Reading Assessment a Dyslexia Screener?  \nNo. STAR is a universal screening tool that we feel will deepen our understanding of specific reading levels and specific reading and literacy challenges of all students. Students who reveal certain challenges on the STAR screener can then be assessed in greater detail relevant to possible concerns around dyslexia.  \nQ: Why not just use a low score on TCRWP (our core language arts program) asthe screener for dyslexia?  \nTCRWP does not test for phonics or phonemic awareness. For this reason it is an unreliable screener for dyslexia. The STAR assessment provides much more specific information about every reader and is a better predictor of scores on other external assessments.  \nQ: Couldn’t our new phonics component be used as a screener?  \nThe assessments for Fast Track (phonics program) do measure some of what would be needed to flag potential dyslexia, but those brief assessments are incremental and apart of each series of lessons. STAR is comprehensive and adaptive, and STAR is also K 8 where Fast Track (phonics program) is K 3.  \nQ: What is the dyslexia screener in BUSD?  \nThe District is currently leaning towards using DIBELS. It is included in the International Dyslexia Association’s list of recommended assessments.  \nIt will be used for select students following the STAR screening, students whose assessment of discrete skills might warrant a screening for potential challenges like dyslexia.  \nIt is important to note that DIBELS, not the STAR Reading Assessment, is the dyslexia screening tool.  \nQ: Will this STAR 360 Reading Assessment take the place of current curriculum as the primary data source from which intervention decisions are made?  \nNo. This wa","cbCaijhpDuO0qaWS","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaijhpDuO0qaWS","pdf",135042,"English","# STAR Reading Assessment: Questions and Answers\n## Purpose and Need\n## Relationship to Dyslexia Screening\n## Use Compared to Current Curriculum Data\n## Alignment and Related Assessments\n## Assessment Data Domains","[{\"question\":\"Why is BUSD adding STAR Reading Assessment to its literacy instruction?\",\"answer\":\"BUSD wants more specific information about the root causes of reading struggles in younger students and a clearer data point to complement TCRWP outcomes and SBA results. 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