How to Use Individual Student Reports (ISRs) Detailed Student Report

This section discusses Individual Student Reports (ISR), each of which provides easy-to-read performance data on a student’s test. If a student took tests multiple times, an ISR will be available for each test opportunity (an instance of a test the student took). ISRs are useful for sharing performance information with students and their parents and guardians.

Note: ISRs are only available for Interim assessments; they are not available for summative tests.

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How to Generate and Export Individual Student Reports (ISR)

To generate and export an ISR for a test opportunity (an instance of a student taking a test), use the Student Results Generator. Each ISR shows a student’s overall performance on their test plus a breakdown of performance by reporting category. You can select any combination of test administrations (categories assigned to assessments), assessments, and students in order to generate either a single ISR or multiple ISRs at once.

You may want to use the Student Results Generator to simultaneously print large numbers of ISRs.

ISRs can be generated from almost any CRS page.

1. Click the Download Student Results button in the upper-right corner of the page (refer to Figure 36) (refer to Icons).

2. The Student Results Generator window opens (refer to Figure 37).

3. Depending what page from which you open the Student Results Generator, the options available to you may be prepopulated or preselected. (The filters applied to the page have no effect, however.) You can change the selections.

4. In the panel on the left, select Individual Student Report. Always do this before you make other selections. Switching between the Individual Student Report and Student Data File options may revert some selections.

5. If you’re generating multiple ISRs, then under Report Format, choose either a single PDF for all the ISRs, or a ZIP file containing a separate PDF for each one. If you select Single PDF, the Student Results Generator may nonetheless create a ZIP file of multiple PDFs depending on the number of schools, grades, and opportunities included.

6. Under PDF Type, select either a simple or detailed PDF.

7. Optional: If supplemental materials are available, such as a cover page or addendum, select Include under Supplemental Materials.

8. If the test opportunity options are not preselected, or if you want to change them, there are two ways to make selections:

   1. Search for students. In the search field at the upper-right corner, enter up to 5 comma-separated student IDs and click Search. The resulting list of students and all the tests they've taken will replace any previous selections, as in Figure 37. To deselect and clear results, click Clear Search Results.

   2. Use the three accordion sections. (If a student is prepopulated by the Student Portfolio Report, first remove the student by clicking Clear Search Results.) Starting from the left, click the section bars to expand them or use the Next and Previous buttons to navigate. Within each section you must make selections using the radio buttons and checkboxes:

      1. In the Test Administration accordion section (Figure 38), choose a test reason. Test reasons are categories for tests.

      2. In the Select Assessments section (Figure 39), choose any number of tests or grade levels within a single subject.

      3. In the Select Students section (Figure 40), choose students from the expandable school and/or class (roster) options. If you’re a district-level user, you may choose students in up to three schools.

9. Sometimes the list of students is truncated. You can display the entire list by clicking Click to Load More. Note that marking the checkbox for a student in one class (roster) or school also marks it anywhere else the student appears, and the same goes for clearing the checkbox.

10. Optional: To set a range of processing dates for which to generate results, use the filter menu as follows:

    1. Open the Filters menu by clicking Filters Menu button (refer to Icons). The menu displays two date fields, as in Figure 41.

    2. Use the calendar tools to select dates, or enter them in the format mm/dd/yyyy.

    3. Click Apply.

    4. Optional: To revert to including results for all available dates, reopen the filter menu, click Clear Filters, then click Apply. Note that processing date is not always the same as the date a test was taken.

10.  From the Language dropdown list, select a language for the ISR.

11.  Click Generate. Once ISR generation is finished, the Secure File Center contains the new ISR(s) available for download.

Note that if a student took a test multiple times with different test reasons, an ISR will be generated for each test opportunity. If a student took a test multiple times with the same test reason, only the most recent test opportunity will be included. You can create an ISR for another test opportunity by navigating directly to the report for that opportunity. Past test opportunities are marked with a Number Indicating An Older Opportunity icon in reports, starting with the earliest (refer to Icons).

What an ISR Looks Like and How to Read It

An ISR is a PDF file that displays test results for an interim test that a student took. It may consist of a single page or multiple pages. ISR layouts vary according to the type of test. Details of sample ISRs are shown below in Figures 43, Figure 44 and Figure 45.

• At the top of each ISR are the student name and TSDS ID, the names of the test, district, and campus, and any other relevant information.

• Below that is a summary of the student’s performance. An ISR for a scale-scored test displays the student’s performance on a horizontal scale that includes a range of all possible scores.

• Many ISRs include a table detailing the student’s performance in each reporting category (refer to Figure 45).