Benchmark Status for Matched Groups Additional descriptive statistics that can be helpful to understand student beginning-of-year (BOY) scores are the Benchmark Status distributions for each grade (Figure 7a-b). As expected, most students selected for intervention scored in the Urgent Intervention or Intervention groups on Star Literacy. Over 80% of third-ffth graders were Below Benchmark on FAST.
Table 7a. Star Literacy Benchmark Categories for Beginning of Year
Number of Students
Urgent Intervention
At/Above Benchmark
Grade
Condition
Intervention On Watch
Treatment
34
38%
32%
24%
6%
1st grade
Comparison
32
31%
50%
12%
3%
Table 7b. Star Reading Benchmark Categories for Beginning of Year
Number of Students
Urgent Intervention
At/Above Benchmark
Grade
Condition
Intervention On Watch
Treatment
33
64%
21%
6%
9%
2ndgrade
Comparison
81
63%
30%
7%
0%
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