Why iReady is dangerous

[Anonymous]

It’s obvious that a lot of you do not know what iready is all about. Our school uses I ready for reading and math. They take a test at the beginning of the school year. It’s an added tool to see where children are at academically. Not only does it tell me the grade level they are on, but what exactly they are struggling with. Up until the Next test, they get on I ready. I can assign them specific skills or iready goes according to the students mastery of material. I have third graders doing 6th grade math on there. I can’t do that in my class. It helps the students that are low and high. The test takes a hour or so. Truly it’s no big deal.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:FCPS is going to stop using iReady next year, just let this thread die.

Maybe. But that math discussion was pretty dang scary. People mixing up translation of a word problem into an equation and strategies for how deconstruct a problem. I cannot believe this is a thing.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:FCPS is going to stop using iReady next year, just let this thread die.

Any word on its replacement?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:iReady is vast improvement on what was there prior. It gives quite a bit of information and catches LDs and deficits MUCH MUCH earlier.

this is REALLY important and any replacement MUST do this as well.

it catches learning disabilities but the teachers and schools don't do anything with what the test catches.

It is still more than my DC got and if IReady had been around when DC was in K, was would have had 2 more years to remediate = plus as far a brain development goes- those are crucial years lost and are showing life long impact.

[Anonymous]

I-ready is a waste of time repeating what you previously learned

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I-ready is a waste of time repeating what you previously learned

DP, You restarted a thread after a year and added no valuable data.

[Anonymous]

i-Ready universal screener testing will probably go away next school year because of HB2027/SB1357.

https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?ses=212&typ=bil&val=hb2027

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:i-Ready universal screener testing will probably go away next school year because of HB2027/SB1357.

https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?ses=212&typ=bil&val=hb2027

This actually states it will continue. It wants a beginning, middle, and end of year assessment and iready fits the bill.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:FCPS is going to stop using iReady next year, just let this thread die.

that's what they said last year, too.

[Anonymous]

Can any teachers weigh in on whether or not the results they get from the iReady are useful to them?

(My DS’s K teacher noted how well he did on the test in the fall, but then said how they don’t put much stock in that test.) Is that the general vibe, but nothing else presently exists?

[Anonymous]

I’m not a classroom teacher but I work with small groups of students. I ready was something I used to see the areas of weakness in the students. These might be 3-5th graders who were struggling in reading. I ready breaks down their scores into phonological awareness, phonics, high frequency words, vocabulary, and comprehension with fiction and non fiction text. I focused a lot on the areas of phonics with the students because it’s just not something that’s addressed with upper grade students. But helping the students I had to understand how to decode what they were reading in turn helped them with their comprehension.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Can any teachers weigh in on whether or not the results they get from the iReady are useful to them?

(My DS’s K teacher noted how well he did on the test in the fall, but then said how they don’t put much stock in that test.) Is that the general vibe, but nothing else presently exists?

DH and I both teach ES grades. We give the iReady and see the score. We don’t use it again or even think about it until we get an email that says every student who scored under the 50th percentile has to take it again. Then we give those kids the iReady, rinse and repeat.