Do they count iready scores now?

[Anonymous]

I have a first grader. I was told this was to see kids were doing and progressing. No one ever told us it would be hard to screen for AAP.

[Anonymous]

It's new this year.

[Anonymous]

And it’s ridiculous! IReady should not be used for AAP

[Anonymous]

How do you know iReady is being counted?

[Anonymous]

I ready is going to quickly turn AAP into AARP… old and slow.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I ready is going to quickly turn AAP into AARP… old and slow.

This is a good one

[Anonymous]

I think they look at IReady to see if the scores align with the other test scores. If they are low, they might assume the child was prepped for the other tests.

[Anonymous]

From what I seen this year, yes Iready scores count now.

[Anonymous]

Looking at the small sample of people who were accepted/rejected, it looks like iReady Reading score was pretty influential. That was the one thing that wasn't so great for my child and he was rejected.

[Anonymous]

We went to a seminar about a enrichment summer camp, and the teacher is FCPS teacher and he just casually said "you know, you need iready to be above 90% to get in the AAP."

My personal view is, for an appeal to be successful, the kid needs to have pretty good scores (NNAT/Cogat/Iready), and parent could say how the HOPE or work sample was not reflective of the kid. If you have iready like 85%, appeal might not work much.

I understand there are admitted kids with 85% iready score, and there must be kids who win the appeal with 85% iready score, but 90%+ would be safe.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We went to a seminar about a enrichment summer camp, and the teacher is FCPS teacher and he just casually said "you know, you need iready to be above 90% to get in the AAP."

My personal view is, for an appeal to be successful, the kid needs to have pretty good scores (NNAT/Cogat/Iready), and parent could say how the HOPE or work sample was not reflective of the kid. If you have iready like 85%, appeal might not work much.

I understand there are admitted kids with 85% iready score, and there must be kids who win the appeal with 85% iready score, but 90%+ would be safe.

It really seems like this is true.

[Anonymous]

So, which IReady score(s) are they going to use? All first grade's and fall score of second grade?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think they look at IReady to see if the scores align with the other test scores. If they are low, they might assume the child was prepped for the other tests.[/quote

100 % agreed. I could see only very few percentage of kids would be without preparation. All tutoring centers are now giving excellent tutoring for COGAT/NNAT too. So the only good test for selection would be iready.

[Anonymous]

Agreed if the student is getting 135+ on the CoGAT, they should be getting 99% on the iready. Anything below a 95% is suspicious, and anything below 90% signals prepping. If the HOPE scores are more in line with 90%tile than 99%tile, then I can see why the selection committee would reject.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So, which IReady score(s) are they going to use? All first grade's and fall score of second grade?

Only second grade fall iready score, this year it is test given in 10/2023