iready tests

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:My 2nd grader is always strong in math (90-99%) but barely passing reading. (65%) She struggled in reading last year.

She had reading tutoring all summer long and it seemed to be working. She was reading above reading level books by herself. And yet she still bombed the Fall reading iready. I don't get it.

Is that the 65th percentile? I don't think that's "barely passing".

A student doesn't "pass" or "fail" the iReady screener, right?

Right, it means they are in the 65%ile which is above the national average.

[Anonymous]

I say this all the time but I-ready was the first concrete evidence we had that our daughter was really struggling with reading, phonemic awareness and vocabulary. The teacher and reading specialist kept telling us everything was fine and I-Ready was like nope not fine. She got a severe dyslexia diagnosis and the school seemed shocked (they were incompetent).

[Anonymous]

My kids score all over the place on I-ready. Sometimes it's higher in the fall than the spring - sometimes they are outstanding and sometimes they are barely scraping by. This is 4 kids we are talking about so I don't know if it's the test or the kid but something is wrong there.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My 2nd grader is always strong in math (90-99%) but barely passing reading. (65%) She struggled in reading last year.

She had reading tutoring all summer long and it seemed to be working. She was reading above reading level books by herself. And yet she still bombed the Fall reading iready. I don't get it.

Is that the 65th percentile? I don't think that's "barely passing".

A student doesn't "pass" or "fail" the iReady screener, right?

Right, it means they are in the 65%ile which is above the national average.

Where I come from, "at or slightly above the national average" is basically failing.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I think it's stressful for many kids to encounter a testing situation where they are deliberately being asked questions about stuff they haven't been taught yet. I get the premise but for the kids it is confusing and they don't like it. Especially kids who are used to doing well on tests and pay attention and prepare just so they will do well.

Hopefully parents can somehow explain the concept to their kids in such a way that the kids don't feel stressed when they get to the questions they have no way of knowing the answers to.

It sounds stressful to me and I wouldn't like it - but my kids don't care. It doesn't bother them.

They only get the more advanced questions if they answer easier questions correctly. It's trying to find their ceiling. What is stressful is if they are quite advanced but also prone to making dumb mistakes it can make the test last a very long time. My ADHD kid who is advanced in math and tends to hyperfocus was told she could keep taking the test until it ended or leave with the rest of their group. She liked doing the test better than the alternative and I guess it went on for several hours because she would make dumb mistakes on a few easy questions and then have to build all the way up to advanced again. The teacher laughed about it with us in the conference that my kid held the record by far for the most questions that she had ever seen. (They had a set up where they went for their iready tests in small groups and she just lasted through all the waves).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My 2nd grader is always strong in math (90-99%) but barely passing reading. (65%) She struggled in reading last year.

She had reading tutoring all summer long and it seemed to be working. She was reading above reading level books by herself. And yet she still bombed the Fall reading iready. I don't get it.

Is that the 65th percentile? I don't think that's "barely passing".

A student doesn't "pass" or "fail" the iReady screener, right?

Right, it means they are in the 65%ile which is above the national average.

Where I come from, "at or slightly above the national average" is basically failing.

Lol no it isn’t. Do you understand percentiles? She didn’t get “a 65%.” She scored better than 65% of test takers. Now you can say that’s not good and sign her up for tutoring or whatever. But the school is going to look at that result and say she’s doing fine and on grade level … which is 100% true.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My 2nd grader is always strong in math (90-99%) but barely passing reading. (65%) She struggled in reading last year.

She had reading tutoring all summer long and it seemed to be working. She was reading above reading level books by herself. And yet she still bombed the Fall reading iready. I don't get it.

Is that the 65th percentile? I don't think that's "barely passing".

A student doesn't "pass" or "fail" the iReady screener, right?

Right, it means they are in the 65%ile which is above the national average.

Where I come from, "at or slightly above the national average" is basically failing.

Lol no it isn’t. Do you understand percentiles? She didn’t get “a 65%.” She scored better than 65% of test takers. Now you can say that’s not good and sign her up for tutoring or whatever. But the school is going to look at that result and say she’s doing fine and on grade level … which is 100% true.

Looks like you’re not getting it. The PP doesn’t want an “average” kid. Average in this country practically means failing.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My 2nd grader is always strong in math (90-99%) but barely passing reading. (65%) She struggled in reading last year.

She had reading tutoring all summer long and it seemed to be working. She was reading above reading level books by herself. And yet she still bombed the Fall reading iready. I don't get it.

Is that the 65th percentile? I don't think that's "barely passing".

A student doesn't "pass" or "fail" the iReady screener, right?

Right, it means they are in the 65%ile which is above the national average.

Where I come from, "at or slightly above the national average" is basically failing.

Lol no it isn’t. Do you understand percentiles? She didn’t get “a 65%.” She scored better than 65% of test takers. Now you can say that’s not good and sign her up for tutoring or whatever. But the school is going to look at that result and say she’s doing fine and on grade level … which is 100% true.

Looks like you’re not getting it. The PP doesn’t want an “average” kid. Average in this country practically means failing.

It’s above average though. And if the kid really is reading above grade level, maybe she just didn’t do well on the test. Either way, it’s mostly just used to flag kids for intervention for scores that are quite a bit below average, so you can score 35th percentile or 99th percentile or anything in between and the test won’t matter at all.

[Anonymous]

Does this get used for aap at all? Or just needing intervention? Seen both here. Anyone know?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My 2nd grader is always strong in math (90-99%) but barely passing reading. (65%) She struggled in reading last year.

She had reading tutoring all summer long and it seemed to be working. She was reading above reading level books by herself. And yet she still bombed the Fall reading iready. I don't get it.

I have a kid in the 70th percentile for reading and it says “approaching expectations”. That’s not on grade level, that is below.

Is that the 65th percentile? I don't think that's "barely passing".

A student doesn't "pass" or "fail" the iReady screener, right?

Right, it means they are in the 65%ile which is above the national average.

Where I come from, "at or slightly above the national average" is basically failing.

Lol no it isn’t. Do you understand percentiles? She didn’t get “a 65%.” She scored better than 65% of test takers. Now you can say that’s not good and sign her up for tutoring or whatever. But the school is going to look at that result and say she’s doing fine and on grade level … which is 100% true.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My 2nd grader is always strong in math (90-99%) but barely passing reading. (65%) She struggled in reading last year.

She had reading tutoring all summer long and it seemed to be working. She was reading above reading level books by herself. And yet she still bombed the Fall reading iready. I don't get it.

Is that the 65th percentile? I don't think that's "barely passing".

A student doesn't "pass" or "fail" the iReady screener, right?

Right, it means they are in the 65%ile which is above the national average.

Where I come from, "at or slightly above the national average" is basically failing.

Lol no it isn’t. Do you understand percentiles? She didn’t get “a 65%.” She scored better than 65% of test takers. Now you can say that’s not good and sign her up for tutoring or whatever. But the school is going to look at that result and say she’s doing fine and on grade level … which is 100% true.

Looks like you’re not getting it. The PP doesn’t want an “average” kid. Average in this country practically means failing.

That is a horrible outlook that is really going to screw with your children’s’ mental health. My mom saw this as a teacher. Some kids really are average, and when they sense that their parents can’t accept them for who they are, the effects can be devastating.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Does this get used for aap at all? Or just needing intervention? Seen both here. Anyone know?

I am told that it is starting to be used around the edges for AAP decisions. I’ve never heard of it working against a child, but I have heard of a great score being helpful to a kid’s application. But the teacher forms/work samples still reign supreme. CogAt too but at the highest SES elementaries, kids with high CogAt but average GBRS are routinely rejected.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My 2nd grader is always strong in math (90-99%) but barely passing reading. (65%) She struggled in reading last year.

She had reading tutoring all summer long and it seemed to be working. She was reading above reading level books by herself. And yet she still bombed the Fall reading iready. I don't get it.

Is that the 65th percentile? I don't think that's "barely passing".

A student doesn't "pass" or "fail" the iReady screener, right?

Right, it means they are in the 65%ile which is above the national average.

Where I come from, "at or slightly above the national average" is basically failing.

Are you a tiger mom?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My 2nd grader is always strong in math (90-99%) but barely passing reading. (65%) She struggled in reading last year.

She had reading tutoring all summer long and it seemed to be working. She was reading above reading level books by herself. And yet she still bombed the Fall reading iready. I don't get it.

Is that the 65th percentile? I don't think that's "barely passing".

A student doesn't "pass" or "fail" the iReady screener, right?

Right, it means they are in the 65%ile which is above the national average.

Where I come from, "at or slightly above the national average" is basically failing.

Lol no it isn’t. Do you understand percentiles? She didn’t get “a 65%.” She scored better than 65% of test takers. Now you can say that’s not good and sign her up for tutoring or whatever. But the school is going to look at that result and say she’s doing fine and on grade level … which is 100% true.

65th percentile is “approaching expectations”, not meeting them. I have a kid with similar scores. They might have scored better than most American kids, but they are not where they should be.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My 2nd grader is always strong in math (90-99%) but barely passing reading. (65%) She struggled in reading last year.

She had reading tutoring all summer long and it seemed to be working. She was reading above reading level books by herself. And yet she still bombed the Fall reading iready. I don't get it.

Is that the 65th percentile? I don't think that's "barely passing".

A student doesn't "pass" or "fail" the iReady screener, right?

Right, it means they are in the 65%ile which is above the national average.

Where I come from, "at or slightly above the national average" is basically failing.

Lol no it isn’t. Do you understand percentiles? She didn’t get “a 65%.” She scored better than 65% of test takers. Now you can say that’s not good and sign her up for tutoring or whatever. But the school is going to look at that result and say she’s doing fine and on grade level … which is 100% true.

65th percentile is “approaching expectations”, not meeting them. I have a kid with similar scores. They might have scored better than most American kids, but they are not where they should be.

It’s approaching the expectation for the end of the academic year. At the end of the year when they take the test again the score should go up.