I-ready testing -- why hoard the results?

[Anonymous]

II agree it is not right or helpful that schools don’t share iready results with parents sooner. The teachers/school has the results, and the results are used to identify if a student needs intervention group or support. Parebts should have prompt access to that information. The results are uploaded to SIS or mailed home much later- sometimes 2 months later.

This is something to complain to school board about and to the principals. We will need a change in policy from higher ups.

It’s the same for SOLs. Schools have the results much sooner (months) than parents. That’s not ok.

[Anonymous]

I would reach out to the school's testing coordinator (usually the assistant principal in elementary school). I was able to get the results immediately with a conference with the teacher available if requested.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I would reach out to the school's testing coordinator (usually the assistant principal in elementary school). I was able to get the results immediately with a conference with the teacher available if requested.

This would be my approach too.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:II agree it is not right or helpful that schools don’t share iready results with parents sooner. The teachers/school has the results, and the results are used to identify if a student needs intervention group or support. Parebts should have prompt access to that information. The results are uploaded to SIS or mailed home much later- sometimes 2 months later.

This is something to complain to school board about and to the principals. We will need a change in policy from higher ups.

It’s the same for SOLs. Schools have the results much sooner (months) than parents. That’s not ok.

Just do FERPA requests. They have to hand over the data and it makes more work for them. To me that's a two points in favor of making the request

[Anonymous]

I'm elsewhere but I think teachers don't particularly care about these results except for how it affects their employment.
My kid has done poorly on iReady (60th percentile) and for some reason he is in the highest reading and math groups. I asked if he needed to go to the resource room and his teacher said no way. When I brought up iReady she just shrugged it off and said it doesn't mean much! She cited that the kids rush through to get to the games at the end! Why are we wasting time with this?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:II agree it is not right or helpful that schools don’t share iready results with parents sooner. The teachers/school has the results, and the results are used to identify if a student needs intervention group or support. Parebts should have prompt access to that information. The results are uploaded to SIS or mailed home much later- sometimes 2 months later.

This is something to complain to school board about and to the principals. We will need a change in policy from higher ups.

It’s the same for SOLs. Schools have the results much sooner (months) than parents. That’s not ok.

Just do FERPA requests. They have to hand over the data and it makes more work for them. To me that's a two points in favor of making the request

If you don't want to irritate people, always work your way up the chain before pulling out the big guns.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm elsewhere but I think teachers don't particularly care about these results except for how it affects their employment.
My kid has done poorly on iReady (60th percentile) and for some reason he is in the highest reading and math groups. I asked if he needed to go to the resource room and his teacher said no way. When I brought up iReady she just shrugged it off and said it doesn't mean much! She cited that the kids rush through to get to the games at the end! Why are we wasting time with this?

I put minimal weight in iReady. We have to it because there are state requirements on completing these diagnostics to measure growth.

[Anonymous]

My DC at a DCPS elementary did their beginning of year i-ready assessments the past 2 weeks or so. They received their scores at the end of each assessment (they told me the score). I am also able to check their i-Ready progress/scores by logging into their i-Ready account via clever.

Teachers will also share a print out of the scores and what grade level they are at for conferences next month.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:II agree it is not right or helpful that schools don’t share iready results with parents sooner. The teachers/school has the results, and the results are used to identify if a student needs intervention group or support. Parebts should have prompt access to that information. The results are uploaded to SIS or mailed home much later- sometimes 2 months later.

This is something to complain to school board about and to the principals. We will need a change in policy from higher ups.

It’s the same for SOLs. Schools have the results much sooner (months) than parents. That’s not ok.

Just do FERPA requests. They have to hand over the data and it makes more work for them. To me that's a two points in favor of making the request

If you don't want to irritate people, always work your way up the chain before pulling out the big guns.

If they don't want to be irritated, they should share the data in a timely manner

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My DC at a DCPS elementary did their beginning of year i-ready assessments the past 2 weeks or so. They received their scores at the end of each assessment (they told me the score). I am also able to check their i-Ready progress/scores by logging into their i-Ready account via clever.

Teachers will also share a print out of the scores and what grade level they are at for conferences next month.

FCPS doesn't pay for that level of iReady, I don't think.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My DC at a DCPS elementary did their beginning of year i-ready assessments the past 2 weeks or so. They received their scores at the end of each assessment (they told me the score). I am also able to check their i-Ready progress/scores by logging into their i-Ready account via clever.

Teachers will also share a print out of the scores and what grade level they are at for conferences next month.

My FCPS son who was previously in DCPS told me the iready at his new school doesn't show the score at the end like it did at DCPS. In his words, "probably so that kids can't be all annoying and braggy about their score like saying I got 34575 points!"

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm elsewhere but I think teachers don't particularly care about these results except for how it affects their employment.
My kid has done poorly on iReady (60th percentile) and for some reason he is in the highest reading and math groups. I asked if he needed to go to the resource room and his teacher said no way. When I brought up iReady she just shrugged it off and said it doesn't mean much! She cited that the kids rush through to get to the games at the end! Why are we wasting time with this?

60th percentile is not a poor score. It isn't a home run by any means, but it isn't a poor score. There are other kids whose scores are in the 10th to 30th percentile. Those kids need the most intensive intervention.

Don't teachers also look at more data than just the iReady? Maybe your kid's other scores and his work in class show the teacher that he's doing well overall.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm elsewhere but I think teachers don't particularly care about these results except for how it affects their employment.
My kid has done poorly on iReady (60th percentile) and for some reason he is in the highest reading and math groups. I asked if he needed to go to the resource room and his teacher said no way. When I brought up iReady she just shrugged it off and said it doesn't mean much! She cited that the kids rush through to get to the games at the end! Why are we wasting time with this?

60th percentile is not a poor score. It isn't a home run by any means, but it isn't a poor score. There are other kids whose scores are in the 10th to 30th percentile. Those kids need the most intensive intervention.

Don't teachers also look at more data than just the iReady? Maybe your kid's other scores and his work in class show the teacher that he's doing well overall.

60th means there is something to work with. 10% means either the kid didn't care and raced through answering randomly or that they're a lost cause

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm elsewhere but I think teachers don't particularly care about these results except for how it affects their employment.
My kid has done poorly on iReady (60th percentile) and for some reason he is in the highest reading and math groups. I asked if he needed to go to the resource room and his teacher said no way. When I brought up iReady she just shrugged it off and said it doesn't mean much! She cited that the kids rush through to get to the games at the end! Why are we wasting time with this?

60th percentile is not a poor score. It isn't a home run by any means, but it isn't a poor score. There are other kids whose scores are in the 10th to 30th percentile. Those kids need the most intensive intervention.

Don't teachers also look at more data than just the iReady? Maybe your kid's other scores and his work in class show the teacher that he's doing well overall.

60th means there is something to work with. 10% means either the kid didn't care and raced through answering randomly or that they're a lost cause

The kids scoring in the 60th percentile are on grade level. It is a percentile not a percentage of how they did.

The county only focuses on kids 39th percentile or less.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm elsewhere but I think teachers don't particularly care about these results except for how it affects their employment.
My kid has done poorly on iReady (60th percentile) and for some reason he is in the highest reading and math groups. I asked if he needed to go to the resource room and his teacher said no way. When I brought up iReady she just shrugged it off and said it doesn't mean much! She cited that the kids rush through to get to the games at the end! Why are we wasting time with this?

60th percentile is not a poor score. It isn't a home run by any means, but it isn't a poor score. There are other kids whose scores are in the 10th to 30th percentile. Those kids need the most intensive intervention.

Don't teachers also look at more data than just the iReady? Maybe your kid's other scores and his work in class show the teacher that he's doing well overall.

60th means there is something to work with. 10% means either the kid didn't care and raced through answering randomly or that they're a lost cause

60th percentile means he scored higher than 60% of test takers in the norming data. His score solidly puts him in the average category.