I-ready testing -- why hoard the results?

[Anonymous]

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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

FERPA requests are an INSANE amount of work for school admin. Why would I do that to them? I can simply request the results from a teacher, principal, or testing coordinator. I can complain to change policy at the top. But no need to waste the principals time and take valuable school resources from others. Just no. Please do not suggest ferpa request. That is not the intent of a ferpa request.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Teacher here. I share IReady Data with parents at conferences.

Our conferences are in mid-October. Almost 2 months after school starting. If my kids need support and they know (checks notes) a month earlier, I am going to be frustrated that I missed out on that time to get support lined up. It takes time to get a tutor on board and it takes time to remediate and get a kid up to speed. The lack of urgency for kids who are struggling is incredibly frustrating.

Agreed. It feels like FCPS doesn't care unless kids have an IEP-this lack of urgency is across the board for students.

We have an IEP for dyselxia and year after year its mid-october before she starts getting reading help (despite what the IEP states). I have to beg for the scores (and the breakouts) early. Beg. Its at the request of our tutor (who is also a FCPS teacher) and finds it to be helpful in either reinforcing what she is seeing of helping her to understand another area that might need some more attention. All this to say, having an IEP doesnt help you either. Its maddening.

[Anonymous]

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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

A lost cause? What a disgusting, vile thing to say about a child. You should be ashamed of yourself.

[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

FERPA requests are an INSANE amount of work for school admin. Why would I do that to them? I can simply request the results from a teacher, principal, or testing coordinator. I can complain to change policy at the top. But no need to waste the principals time and take valuable school resources from others. Just no. Please do not suggest ferpa request. That is not the intent of a ferpa request.

A FERPA request just doesn’t go to the principal and they respond. There is a department at FCPS that deals with this, so you’ll be wasting multiple employees’ time before it gets back to the principal.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Teacher here. I share IReady Data with parents at conferences.

Our conferences are in mid-October. Almost 2 months after school starting. If my kids need support and they know (checks notes) a month earlier, I am going to be frustrated that I missed out on that time to get support lined up. It takes time to get a tutor on board and it takes time to remediate and get a kid up to speed. The lack of urgency for kids who are struggling is incredibly frustrating.

Agreed. It feels like FCPS doesn't care unless kids have an IEP-this lack of urgency is across the board for students.

We have an IEP for dyselxia and year after year its mid-october before she starts getting reading help (despite what the IEP states). I have to beg for the scores (and the breakouts) early. Beg. Its at the request of our tutor (who is also a FCPS teacher) and finds it to be helpful in either reinforcing what she is seeing of helping her to understand another area that might need some more attention. All this to say, having an IEP doesnt help you either. Its maddening.

I am a full-time tutor. It’s a very bad sign that your tutor uses this as even a component for evaluation. Without the passages and knowing which questions they got wrong, it is completely useless for him or her to use as a reference.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Teacher here. I share IReady Data with parents at conferences.

Our conferences are in mid-October. Almost 2 months after school starting. If my kids need support and they know (checks notes) a month earlier, I am going to be frustrated that I missed out on that time to get support lined up. It takes time to get a tutor on board and it takes time to remediate and get a kid up to speed. The lack of urgency for kids who are struggling is incredibly frustrating.

Agreed. It feels like FCPS doesn't care unless kids have an IEP-this lack of urgency is across the board for students.

We have an IEP for dyselxia and year after year it’s mid-october before she starts getting reading help (despite what the IEP states). I have to beg for the scores (and the breakouts) early. Beg. Its at the request of our tutor (who is also a FCPS teacher) and finds it to be helpful in either reinforcing what she is seeing of helping her to understand another area that might need some more attention. All this to say, having an IEP doesnt help you either. Its maddening.

+1 to all of this. Could have written it word for word for my DS.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Teacher here. I share IReady Data with parents at conferences.

Our conferences are in mid-October. Almost 2 months after school starting. If my kids need support and they know (checks notes) a month earlier, I am going to be frustrated that I missed out on that time to get support lined up. It takes time to get a tutor on board and it takes time to remediate and get a kid up to speed. The lack of urgency for kids who are struggling is incredibly frustrating.

Agreed. It feels like FCPS doesn't care unless kids have an IEP-this lack of urgency is across the board for students.

We have an IEP for dyselxia and year after year its mid-october before she starts getting reading help (despite what the IEP states). I have to beg for the scores (and the breakouts) early. Beg. Its at the request of our tutor (who is also a FCPS teacher) and finds it to be helpful in either reinforcing what she is seeing of helping her to understand another area that might need some more attention. All this to say, having an IEP doesnt help you either. Its maddening.

I am a full-time tutor. It’s a very bad sign that your tutor uses this as even a component for evaluation. Without the passages and knowing which questions they got wrong, it is completely useless for him or her to use as a reference.

But are you a teacher? The parent report provides more information than just the score, and we've found it helpful.