Disastrous results for iready

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This is horrible test that gives you things above grade level and waits for you to fail to put you on an appropriate level. I had to sit with my kid and prevent him from choosing randomly. Many things he had no idea about.
The horrible thing is that it is used for math tracking in our district! Otherwise I wouldn’t care one bit.
Let the teacher handle it and relax and tell your kid not to rush but don’t sweat it. Thank you for the work you do!

Yes, the test is adaptive, that's how it works. Your kid knows this already, he knows how the test works. You didn't help him, you made him cheat.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This is horrible test that gives you things above grade level and waits for you to fail to put you on an appropriate level. I had to sit with my kid and prevent him from choosing randomly. Many things he had no idea about.
The horrible thing is that it is used for math tracking in our district! Otherwise I wouldn’t care one bit.
Let the teacher handle it and relax and tell your kid not to rush but don’t sweat it. Thank you for the work you do!

But that's the way adaptive tests work! How can it detect the kids who are above grade level without asking questions that are above grade level? Heck, how can it accurately detect what kids know without potentially asking them things they haven't seen? If kids have no clue what the question is asking, they're supposed to choose randomly/get it wrong.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This is horrible test that gives you things above grade level and waits for you to fail to put you on an appropriate level. I had to sit with my kid and prevent him from choosing randomly. Many things he had no idea about.
The horrible thing is that it is used for math tracking in our district! Otherwise I wouldn’t care one bit.
Let the teacher handle it and relax and tell your kid not to rush but don’t sweat it. Thank you for the work you do!

Accurate tracking? Quelle horreur!

But you stepped in, so that he'll be in the advanced track. That's what lawnmower parents do.

[Anonymous]

Our child just switched to private. In math way ahead. In language arts dismally behind.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:kid should not be in AAP.

Who are you to decide? Our child was referred by school and we only answered questions no other parent work was submitted.

Child was writing at 3rd grade level in 1st grade per teacher. I am respiratory therapist intubating covid patients since March and husband also essential worker.
My dad lost his cousin to covid. Since March it is stressful and we were not able to guide our kids. Kids sense the stress in home. As I said teacher said test was rushed. All this is due to Pandemic.

Signed by OP.

Whi is she to decide?? A jealous b.i.t.c.h!!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think a lot of AAP parents hate iready because it shows just how ordinary their kids are. If your kid is scoring below grade level or at a lower percentile, it must be that the test is flawed and not that your kid isn't particularly advanced.

I am sorry your kid didn't get into AAP - too bad. Op's child is in and nothing you say and no test will change that. Booo-hoo! Get over it!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is horrible test that gives you things above grade level and waits for you to fail to put you on an appropriate level. I had to sit with my kid and prevent him from choosing randomly. Many things he had no idea about.
The horrible thing is that it is used for math tracking in our district! Otherwise I wouldn’t care one bit.
Let the teacher handle it and relax and tell your kid not to rush but don’t sweat it. Thank you for the work you do!

Yes, the test is adaptive, that's how it works. Your kid knows this already, he knows how the test works. You didn't help him, you made him cheat.

I just said “I know you know this. Try to remember and think and choose the answer that makes the most sense”.
This is a learning opportunity for learning test taking strategies and practicing good habits. Always use paper and pencil etc

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is horrible test that gives you things above grade level and waits for you to fail to put you on an appropriate level. I had to sit with my kid and prevent him from choosing randomly. Many things he had no idea about.
The horrible thing is that it is used for math tracking in our district! Otherwise I wouldn’t care one bit.
Let the teacher handle it and relax and tell your kid not to rush but don’t sweat it. Thank you for the work you do!

But that's the way adaptive tests work! How can it detect the kids who are above grade level without asking questions that are above grade level? Heck, how can it accurately detect what kids know without potentially asking them things they haven't seen? If kids have no clue what the question is asking, they're supposed to choose randomly/get it wrong.

Kids should start at grade level or a bit below and work their way up (or down)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is horrible test that gives you things above grade level and waits for you to fail to put you on an appropriate level. I had to sit with my kid and prevent him from choosing randomly. Many things he had no idea about.
The horrible thing is that it is used for math tracking in our district! Otherwise I wouldn’t care one bit.
Let the teacher handle it and relax and tell your kid not to rush but don’t sweat it. Thank you for the work you do!

Accurate tracking? Quelle horreur!

But you stepped in, so that he'll be in the advanced track. That's what lawnmower parents do.

Nah, this was a practice one. I couldn’t have helped him even if I wanted - if he didn’t know he didn’t knkw. The problem was that he KNEW a lot of things but he would just try to not even think (like do standard algorithm operations etc).

[Anonymous]

Anyway, the point is the test is bad because it discourages you, and I am not even sure how accurate it is because some answers can be guessed and guessed right.
I don’t know what happened to the good old assessment of what one had been already exposed to!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My kid also fiinished their reading iready test quickly, maybe in 30-40 minutes (5th grade). I was expecting it to go on for a long time because last year my kid had taken 2 days to finish the test. I feel my kid may have bombed the test but I don't know the score and the teacher has not sent any email. Is it possible the test was short this year?

Same. Both my 5AAP kid and my 2nd grader finished in less than 45 minutes. I thought it would be longer.

Haven't heard from either teacher. I don't know.

My 6th grade AAP took FOREVER to finish his iready. I told him he isn’t meant to know everything. I saw him struggling with it. I want to say it took him 3 days to finish math and 2 days for reading. It felt like hours. I don’t know if he was goofing off and just saying he was doing iready or it really took him that long. Definitely much longer than 30-45 min.

[Anonymous]

My kid decided it would be fun to just randomly click answers on the Math iReady.
My 6th grader did the reading iReady in 60 minutes, my 4th grader took about 2 hours.

[Anonymous]

Then there is my second grader who has told us parents have been seen on the screen this week all during the times they were taking both iReady screeners. Sitting next to the kids reading things for them. That is going to be a great assessment of where the kids are at! I’m being sarcastic. As if the teacher does know!

[Anonymous]

Pap, if your child rushed and there is a rush flag in his/her score, the teacher can re-assign the iReady to do over. I wouldn’t worry eithbway, though. It’s not a disaster. It won’t affect AAP status at all. It’s just one piece of info and we know it’s not necessarily reliable when taken from home. It can easily be reset though if you’d like the child to take it again. We do this all the time.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This is horrible test that gives you things above grade level and waits for you to fail to put you on an appropriate level. I had to sit with my kid and prevent him from choosing randomly. Many things he had no idea about.
The horrible thing is that it is used for math tracking in our district! Otherwise I wouldn’t care one bit.
Let the teacher handle it and relax and tell your kid not to rush but don’t sweat it. Thank you for the work you do!

Such a crappy test. My son rushed through the entire thing. I didn’t intervene, he most likely got at least half wrong. You live and learn. He is a bright, clever kid, I am not worried.