Disastrous results for iready
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Anonymous
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For all of you waiting for iready results, here's a warning. The school will do nothing at all to interpret your child's scores for you or give you any guidance. If your child scores off-the-charts high, they'll gaslight you into thinking that scores like that are normal and that everything is fine as is. They don't want you to ask for any services, even if your child clearly needs something beyond what is normally provided.
Likewise, if your child scores lower than expected, they'll come up with some excuse or gloss over that, because they don't want to deal with parents asking questions or getting upset. If the teacher already thought that your child belongs in gen ed and not AAP, and then the iready scores confirm that, the teacher isn't going to say so. You'll need to use the percentile charts and placement levels posted online to get any idea of what the scores really mean. |
Anonymous
I can't remember if OP said that her kid was principal placed. A low iready could be disastrous for a principal placed kid if they remove the kid from the AAP classroom. If the kid is solidly in AAP, then the score won't have any impact. Kids who are below grade level and fail SOLs still can't be booted out of AAP. |
Anonymous
| One should only care for results if they mean change in placement or some such. Otherwise it is just another practice for your child if done right, a meaningless thing if done wrong. |
Anonymous
Or a low score could indicate the long summer slide and academic regression from closing schools in March. Just a thought. |
Anonymous
| How are people getting their kids' iReady scores? Do some schools routinely release this information? |
Anonymous
yep, Principal place and level III scores matter. Level IV centrally placed are there whether or not they can keep up |
Anonymous
Of the two schools my kids attended, one school automatically gave the scores in the 1st Q report cards. The other school was reluctant to give scores even when I requested them. I had to push a bit for them to release my kid's scores to me. |
Anonymous
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How do you know the percentile?
I just received our iready results for my 4th and 6th graders. They both scored higher than the fall window expected range but there is no percentile. My 6th grader did better than my 4th. My 6th grader took forever taking his iready test. My 4th grader finished in an hour. |
Anonymous
https://www.irwinelementary.org/ices/images/fy20/iReadyNorms.pdf |
Anonymous
Do these percentiles seem off? My 3rd grader was overall “on grade level” in Math and overall “above grade level” in Reading but had a higher percentile in Math. |
Anonymous
That makes sense, though. Kids who read a lot are often above grade level in reading. In math, usually kids need to be doing outside tutoring to be above grade level. So, it's reasonable that a larger percent of kids are above grade level readers than above grade level mathematicians. |
Anonymous
So you coached your kid to get a better score? |
Anonymous
She was at the 99th percentile in Math though according to this and “on grade level.” That can’t be right, can it? |
Anonymous
| How do you know what your child's score is? It's not like ready tells you at the end how you did. |