How long is an IREADY test supposed to take?

[Anonymous]

My favorite part of iready- many teachers have not been trained on how to interrupt the results.

[Anonymous]

It took some of my kids a really long time and it told me nothing I didn’t already know. It gets harder as you go and some kids sit there forever trying to figure out the answer, and then happen to guess the right answer, and then they have to keep going. Someone is making a lot of money on this.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There should be a time limit. This is ridiculous. Same with MAP testing. If kids need more than an hour they don’t know the material.

It sounds like the system is calibrated so that the kids who have more mastery of the material take longer. The idea is that the test keeps asking questions until the child gets enough answers wrong. It helps teachers know where individual children are in their education so that each child receives an appropriately challenging education. The kids who are taking multiple hours to finish are the kids who are more advanced.

Except in most FCPS elementaries the K-2 has very little to challenge kids who are more advanced no matter how they do on I-ready. My dd scored way ahead and yet her 2nd grade teacher says she is "on level". Everyone in the class is "on level" or "below level" because she never teaches above that level.