iready math

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote: For
example, a scale score in the 500s does NOT mean that a student’s grade-level placement is fi fth grade.

Well, obviously. Reading comprehension is your friend. People are debating what "Level 5" means. Not what a score in the 500s means. No one on this thread, other than apparently you, has made any conclusions about raw score/100 equalling grade level.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:
Look at Grade 7 Overall Math score , lowest score is 100 and corresponds to Level K. Do you think a 7th grader child scoring 100 is so bad in math that his/her skills are Kindergarten level? If so how did he managed to clear 1st,2nd ...6th grade? Is this even possible?
In the same scenario a kindergartner scoring 800 would be at Grade 3 math, better than 7th grader?

Is it even possible for a kindergartner to score that high? Likewise, just how deficient in math skills would a 7th grader need to be to score a 100? Both of these would be extreme cases and not remotely plausible for a regular child in public school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: For
example, a scale score in the 500s does NOT mean that a student’s grade-level placement is fi fth grade.

Well, obviously. Reading comprehension is your friend. People are debating what "Level 5" means. Not what a score in the 500s means. No one on this thread, other than apparently you, has made any conclusions about raw score/100 equalling grade level.

Duh, you need to befriend reading comprehension! Scaled scored is used to determine child level (from the placement chart) which is then translated to Grade! This is how parents are claiming their child is at 6th Grade Math. Looks you need to read entire thread before understanding what you are your answering!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: For
example, a scale score in the 500s does NOT mean that a student’s grade-level placement is fi fth grade.

Well, obviously. Reading comprehension is your friend. People are debating what "Level 5" means. Not what a score in the 500s means. No one on this thread, other than apparently you, has made any conclusions about raw score/100 equalling grade level.

Duh, you need to befriend reading comprehension! Scaled scored is used to determine child level (from the placement chart) which is then translated to Grade! This is how parents are claiming their child is at 6th Grade Math. Looks you need to read entire thread before understanding what you are your answering!

Yes. Your link merely stated that the first digit of the scaled score does not correspond to grade level. Well, obviously that is the case. It does not in any way state or suggest that a scaled score which is converted to Level 4 or Level 6 or whatever doesn't imply grade level correspondence. Clearly, you haven't read a lot of the iready documentation, readily available on the iready website.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

iReady shows palcement level
Chart: http://www.aps.edu/assessment/i-ready-documents/i-ready-placement-tables

Look at page 2 second table. this is where the range falls. Either child is Early-Mid-Late-Above Grade (report does not say which grade)

From the link you provided: Placement levels The placement level is the practical day-to-day language that helps teachers determine what level of skills to focus on with a particular student. Placement levels can be simply "Level 4," or can be ranked as early, mid, or late Level 4. Placement levels indicate where students should be receiving instruction, either online or in the classroom.

So, a fifth grader placing at "Level 5" and a third grader placing at "Level 5" would both be appropriately instructed using "level 5" materials.

But then this would contradict the that iReady tests only one level above. How can it it give Level 5 (which parents translates as grade 5). This is in line with DRA/MRA which stops at one grade level above. These is FCPS guidelines and I have heard it from a center school teacher.

[Anonymous]

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I amd the PP with second paragraph. I just posted my thought one post above why I don't think that is the case.

You seem very defensive about the validity of iready. So, how did your kids perform on it? Is your main gripe that you're convinced your children are above grade level, but iready said otherwise? That seems to be the theme on this forum.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:
But then this would contradict the that iReady tests only one level above. How can it it give Level 5 (which parents translates as grade 5). This is in line with DRA/MRA which stops at one grade level above. These is FCPS guidelines and I have heard it from a center school teacher.

Advanced 2nd graders are getting questions involving adding fractions, multi-digit multiplication, using protractors, and the like. How would you interpret this?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
Look at Grade 7 Overall Math score , lowest score is 100 and corresponds to Level K. Do you think a 7th grader child scoring 100 is so bad in math that his/her skills are Kindergarten level? If so how did he managed to clear 1st,2nd ...6th grade? Is this even possible?
In the same scenario a kindergartner scoring 800 would be at Grade 3 math, better than 7th grader?

Is it even possible for a kindergartner to score that high? Likewise, just how deficient in math skills would a 7th grader need to be to score a 100? Both of these would be extreme cases and not remotely plausible for a regular child in public school.

iReady creators thinks both scenarios are possible otherwise why bother about the levels? There is no way KG scoring 507-800 can be at Grade level 3. Hence Level 3 does not translate to Grade 3

[Anonymous]

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There are many kids in this forum who scores WISC of 130+. Here is modern IQ ranges for various occupations
http://www.iqcomparisonsite.com/occupations.aspx
Do you think this child is smarter than engineers/lawyers/doctors? These tests are relative to age hence Level 5 can not translate to Grade 5 math.

What point are you trying to make here? Your chart shows that the 75th percentile for every single occupation is well below 130, and very few occupations even have people at the 95th percentile for that profession above 130. But FWIW, I'm both an engineer and a lawyer , and yes, my child is smarter than I am.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:
iReady creators thinks both scenarios are possible otherwise why bother about the levels? There is no way KG scoring 507-800 can be at Grade level 3. Hence Level 3 does not translate to Grade 3

Well, I guess if you say so. FWIW, my kid who scored 4+ grade levels ahead also had a perfect score on the cogat quantitative, hit the ceiling on the wisc fluid reasoning index, and has been tested at the base school as being on at least a 5th grade level. But you go ahead and believe whatever you're determined to believe. All snowflakes are equally special in FCPS

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
iReady creators thinks both scenarios are possible otherwise why bother about the levels? There is no way KG scoring 507-800 can be at Grade level 3. Hence Level 3 does not translate to Grade 3

Well, I guess if you say so. FWIW, my kid who scored 4+ grade levels ahead also had a perfect score on the cogat quantitative, hit the ceiling on the wisc fluid reasoning index, and has been tested at the base school as being on at least a 5th grade level. But you go ahead and believe whatever you're determined to believe. All snowflakes are equally special in FCPS

Max level that any child can cross is three level above. Your child must have taken at-home test scoring 4+ level.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:
Max level that any child can cross is three level above. Your child must have taken at-home test scoring 4+ level.

Technically, he's 3 levels above, but his score is more than 40 points higher than the cutoff score for Level 5.

[Anonymous]

I've asked this numerous times in this forum, but has anyone had a child score unreasonably high? It seems like the majority of the angst is that kids are scoring lower than parents think they ought to score.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:
iReady creators thinks both scenarios are possible otherwise why bother about the levels? There is no way KG scoring 507-800 can be at Grade level 3. Hence Level 3 does not translate to Grade 3

Wrong! My kid in K absolutely knew how to do multi digit addition and subtraction, multiplication, division, fractions, and pretty much everything else in the 3rd grade curriculum. Yes, some kids actually are gifted or even highly gifted in math.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
Max level that any child can cross is three level above. Your child must have taken at-home test scoring 4+ level.

Technically, he's 3 levels above, but his score is more than 40 points higher than the cutoff score for Level 5.

So you concluded your DC is in Grade 5!