The U.S. Department of Education’s National Center on Response to Intervention (NCRTI), National Center on Student Progress Monitoring (NCSPM), and What Works Clearinghouse (WWC) have each reviewed Renaissance Learning’s tools for Response to Intervention.

STAR Early Literacy received the highest rating of all screening assessments and among the highest ratings of all progress-monitoring tools by the NCRTI, and meets the NCSPM’s criteria for scientifically based progress-monitoring tools.

STAR Math received among the highest-ratings of the progress-monitoring tools reviewed by the NCRTI, and meets the NCSPM’s criteria for scientifically based progress-monitoring tools. (The review of STAR Math as a screening tool by the NCRTI is currently in process.)

STAR Reading received the highest rating of all screening assessments and among the highest ratings of all progress-monitoring tools by the NCRTI, and meets the NCSPM’s criteria for scientifically based progress-monitoring tools.

Accelerated Math is the only progress-monitoring tool reviewed by the NCRTI to be categorized as a mastery measurement tool. Its high marks confirm what teachers nationwide have said all along—Accelerated Math is truly in a class by itself. Accelerated Math is also one of very few tools with published research that meets the standards of the WWC, and it meets the NCSPM’s criteria for scientifically based progress-monitoring tools.

Accelerated Reader is one of very few tools with published research that meets the standards of the WWC, and also meets the NCSPM’s criteria for scientifically based progress-monitoring tools.