The teachers I know who like it are those who want a quick assessment. I also personally feel like most of them aren't interested in truly KNOWING the child as a reader. Getting a reading level does not guide instruction beyond putting the right book in their hands. And I know more people who disagree with the accuracy of the STAR leveling than agree with it. If I were to use it, I would only use it as a screener to decide who to QRI. The other downside of STAR is that it is almost always connected with AR reading which I abhor. I am a sixth grade teacher and you should hear the collective moan in my classroom from the kids who were forced to use AR in the elementary world. The only students I know who liked it were the highly competitive ones who liked the leveling (they were also the profcient readers) and the competition with points. I do not believe it ever assisted a struggling reader in becoming more proficient.
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