Student Login Activities - STAR Testing

With the increasing use of computers in elementary school classrooms, it has become commonplace for students to have to login to an online resource in order to complete class assignments. For instance, the students in the first grade classroom use STAR Testing, an online assessment resource produced by Renaissance.  To access this resource, students must login to the site and then select the area in which they will be tested (math, reading, etc.).  They login by using their lunch number as their username and the letters "we" (acronym for the school name) as the password.  STAR testing is used for a variety of things on the administrative level. For more information about it, please consult Renaissance. However, a teacher's primary concern with it is to determine what students know and how they as educators should best proceed in order to help students get where they need to be academically.