IReady test

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Anonymous wrote:How do you judge whether your students are learning or not without IReady?

Please tell me this is sarcasm.

No - what I mean is I'm trying to find out whether my child has learned anything this year. What measurement would I use?

The answer is no, he hasn’t learned anything unless you’ve been supplementing with pencil, paper, workbooks or textbooks.

Ask your child what they are doing in school and listen. Take a look at their work in the school folder. Take a look at your kids emails that include assignments and Teachers returning assignments.

DS is in third and had been learning. They have done multiplication and fractions. They have written "books", essentially five paragraph essays with each paragraph called a chapter. He has produced sheets on different types of cycles for science. His Level II pullout is doing some coding and he is having fun tweaking the code for a video game.

I don't need i-Ready to tell me he is learning, I see what he is doing. I ask him what he is doing.

I literally sit next to him every day. I don't need your hot parenting tips to "discover" what they've been learning. It ain't happening.

Then why do you care about your kid's iReady scores? What's the point of asking if you already think your kid isn't learning anything?

I don't care and I didn't ask the original question.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How do you judge whether your students are learning or not without IReady?

Please tell me this is sarcasm.

No - what I mean is I'm trying to find out whether my child has learned anything this year. What measurement would I use?

The answer is no, he hasn’t learned anything unless you’ve been supplementing with pencil, paper, workbooks or textbooks.

Ask your child what they are doing in school and listen. Take a look at their work in the school folder. Take a look at your kids emails that include assignments and Teachers returning assignments.

DS is in third and had been learning. They have done multiplication and fractions. They have written "books", essentially five paragraph essays with each paragraph called a chapter. He has produced sheets on different types of cycles for science. His Level II pullout is doing some coding and he is having fun tweaking the code for a video game.

I don't need i-Ready to tell me he is learning, I see what he is doing. I ask him what he is doing.

What school folder? I have a 2nd grader in FCPS and we don't have a folder. My kid does assignments in Google and turns them in and we never get any feedback. There are no written assignments other than what she does online, and once the kids learned how to use the dictation tool. all "writing" stopped. She just talks at her computer and uses that. There's no handwriting assignments given by my kid's teacher.

Honestly, I-Ready scores are all I will have to go by, and even those I have to specifically ask for.

[Anonymous]

It’s normal. Kids have “off” testing days. We want to see improvement by the end of the year ideally but you also might not see that if they were already on level or high coming into the year. Generally the schools care most about seeing improvement in kids who were below level at beginning of year.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How do you judge whether your students are learning or not without IReady?

Please tell me this is sarcasm.

No - what I mean is I'm trying to find out whether my child has learned anything this year. What measurement would I use?

The answer is no, he hasn’t learned anything unless you’ve been supplementing with pencil, paper, workbooks or textbooks.

Ask your child what they are doing in school and listen. Take a look at their work in the school folder. Take a look at your kids emails that include assignments and Teachers returning assignments.

DS is in third and had been learning. They have done multiplication and fractions. They have written "books", essentially five paragraph essays with each paragraph called a chapter. He has produced sheets on different types of cycles for science. His Level II pullout is doing some coding and he is having fun tweaking the code for a video game.

I don't need i-Ready to tell me he is learning, I see what he is doing. I ask him what he is doing.

What school folder? I have a 2nd grader in FCPS and we don't have a folder. My kid does assignments in Google and turns them in and we never get any feedback. There are no written assignments other than what she does online, and once the kids learned how to use the dictation tool. all "writing" stopped. She just talks at her computer and uses that. There's no handwriting assignments given by my kid's teacher.

Honestly, I-Ready scores are all I will have to go by, and even those I have to specifically ask for.

I have a second grader in FCPS, too. I have user ID and her password and I asked her if I can look at her work at the end of the day, and before she turns it in on Mondays. So every evening, I take 5 minutes to look at her google slides and make sure she did her work and see if there's anything she needs help with. Today, for example, she didn't adequately capture the main idea of the book they read, so I explained again what her teacher means when she asks for the main idea and why identifying facts beforehand is helpful. Last week my husband helped her understand some math problems with larger numbers. It doesn't take that long and it makes a big difference.

And before you say anything about not having time to do that -- I work a demanding full time job, and I have another kid I need to keep an eye on, yet I manage to take 15 minutes out of my schedule every day to do this.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How do you judge whether your students are learning or not without IReady?

Please tell me this is sarcasm.

No - what I mean is I'm trying to find out whether my child has learned anything this year. What measurement would I use?

The answer is no, he hasn’t learned anything unless you’ve been supplementing with pencil, paper, workbooks or textbooks.

Ask your child what they are doing in school and listen. Take a look at their work in the school folder. Take a look at your kids emails that include assignments and Teachers returning assignments.

DS is in third and had been learning. They have done multiplication and fractions. They have written "books", essentially five paragraph essays with each paragraph called a chapter. He has produced sheets on different types of cycles for science. His Level II pullout is doing some coding and he is having fun tweaking the code for a video game.

I don't need i-Ready to tell me he is learning, I see what he is doing. I ask him what he is doing.

What school folder? I have a 2nd grader in FCPS and we don't have a folder. My kid does assignments in Google and turns them in and we never get any feedback. There are no written assignments other than what she does online, and once the kids learned how to use the dictation tool. all "writing" stopped. She just talks at her computer and uses that. There's no handwriting assignments given by my kid's teacher.

Honestly, I-Ready scores are all I will have to go by, and even those I have to specifically ask for.

I have a second grader in FCPS, too. I have user ID and her password and I asked her if I can look at her work at the end of the day, and before she turns it in on Mondays. So every evening, I take 5 minutes to look at her google slides and make sure she did her work and see if there's anything she needs help with. Today, for example, she didn't adequately capture the main idea of the book they read, so I explained again what her teacher means when she asks for the main idea and why identifying facts beforehand is helpful. Last week my husband helped her understand some math problems with larger numbers. It doesn't take that long and it makes a big difference.

And before you say anything about not having time to do that -- I work a demanding full time job, and I have another kid I need to keep an eye on, yet I manage to take 15 minutes out of my schedule every day to do this.

You have 1. I have 4 children and that time quickly adds up. And my point is that testing can tell whether or not the child is retaining the information. My son literally cannot tell me information that he learned in the fall and certainly not what he was working on in the spring.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How do you judge whether your students are learning or not without IReady?

Please tell me this is sarcasm.

No - what I mean is I'm trying to find out whether my child has learned anything this year. What measurement would I use?

The answer is no, he hasn’t learned anything unless you’ve been supplementing with pencil, paper, workbooks or textbooks.

Ask your child what they are doing in school and listen. Take a look at their work in the school folder. Take a look at your kids emails that include assignments and Teachers returning assignments.

DS is in third and had been learning. They have done multiplication and fractions. They have written "books", essentially five paragraph essays with each paragraph called a chapter. He has produced sheets on different types of cycles for science. His Level II pullout is doing some coding and he is having fun tweaking the code for a video game.

I don't need i-Ready to tell me he is learning, I see what he is doing. I ask him what he is doing.

What school folder? I have a 2nd grader in FCPS and we don't have a folder. My kid does assignments in Google and turns them in and we never get any feedback. There are no written assignments other than what she does online, and once the kids learned how to use the dictation tool. all "writing" stopped. She just talks at her computer and uses that. There's no handwriting assignments given by my kid's teacher.

Honestly, I-Ready scores are all I will have to go by, and even those I have to specifically ask for.

I have a second grader in FCPS, too. I have user ID and her password and I asked her if I can look at her work at the end of the day, and before she turns it in on Mondays. So every evening, I take 5 minutes to look at her google slides and make sure she did her work and see if there's anything she needs help with. Today, for example, she didn't adequately capture the main idea of the book they read, so I explained again what her teacher means when she asks for the main idea and why identifying facts beforehand is helpful. Last week my husband helped her understand some math problems with larger numbers. It doesn't take that long and it makes a big difference.

And before you say anything about not having time to do that -- I work a demanding full time job, and I have another kid I need to keep an eye on, yet I manage to take 15 minutes out of my schedule every day to do this.

My kids in FCPS Es haven’t read books or written about books all year. A book!