Renaissance Accelerated Reader review
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
We use the Renaissance Accelerated Reader program for our English regular and English Honors courses at High School level. Teacher's get very detailed information as to how are students are doing in terms of reading and improving on fluency and accuracy in learning to understand and interpret books. There is grade levels in place for the books and by testing at certain grade levels we can fully see where the students need the most help and where improvements can be made. The Renaissance Accelerated Reader program has helped a lot in the past few years by giving us more insight as to where students need to be in terms of reading fluency and basic reading knowledge.
Pros
- Gives details on the fluctuation throughout the years since starting the program
- Let's teachers use the program as a guide so they can adjust to the students reading needs better
- Improves the student's learning skills in the classroom with better reading fluency and accuracy
Cons
- Understanding the graphs for first time users
- Separating the children based on reading level
- Giving details on how and where specifically students would need to improve to bring up scores
Return on Investment
- Positively increased the reading level of students
- Given students the opportunity to increase reading fluency
- Negatively affected kids who were already struggling to read by making them see the bad test scores with little to no improvement
