iready math

[Anonymous]

DC is a second grader and advanced in math, the teacher has been sending home third grade homework just for DC to avoid being bored and losing focus in class which I'm very appreciative of.

DC is in pool because both NNAT and COGAT are above cut off scores by a big margin, and the quantitative section was 99th percentile.

However, DC took iready math this week and keeps saying that the test was really hard. I don't think DC was getting 3rd or 4th math questions or anything.

I don't know what to think of this.

Does anyone have the same experience with iready?

Is it supposed to be this hard?

[Anonymous]

It is a computer adaptive test. That means the better you do the harder it gets

[Anonymous]

It is designed to be challenging. The test adjusts up or down depending on whether the child answers questions correctly or incorrectly.

[Anonymous]

OP here - what I don't understand is DC didn't even get multiplication or division questions that other kids got.

Which means DC was doing addition and subtraction and other easy questions, not getting all correctly so didn't move up to get more difficult questions?

Or DC finished all those multiplication and division questions in the previous test and didn't get those same types of questions.

Trying to figure out what happened but of course I'm getting limited information from a 7 year old.

[Anonymous]

The content ceiling was end of 3rd grade math for 2nd graders at the beginning of the year, and maybe beyond that for the mid year testing. Your child probably was getting 3rd grade math questions.

How high was the iready score from the fall testing?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The content ceiling was end of 3rd grade math for 2nd graders at the beginning of the year, and maybe beyond that for the mid year testing. Your child probably was getting 3rd grade math questions.

How high was the iready score from the fall testing?

The score was not provided by school. We're only told that DC was in 2nd grade level which was pretty shocking to us at that time. DC is not particularly fond of or good at this type of test using computer.

[Anonymous]

My child sounds similar to yours, but he found iready incredibly easy. If you're concerned, talk with the teacher and ask for the full score breakdown. Otherwise, just write the whole thing off as not being important.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The content ceiling was end of 3rd grade math for 2nd graders at the beginning of the year, and maybe beyond that for the mid year testing. Your child probably was getting 3rd grade math questions.

How high was the iready score from the fall testing?

The score was not provided by school. We're only told that DC was in 2nd grade level which was pretty shocking to us at that time. DC is not particularly fond of or good at this type of test using computer.

iReady is going to replace MRA/DRA so that is going to be the only option hence every kid needs to adapt it. iReady tests only one year in advanced. It is possible your child could not solve it due to one or other issue. Nothing to be alarmed about. Questions do get harder since test is adaptive in nature. Ask your DC at what point in test questions got harder?Maybe he can give one example, that can give you some clue. My DC experience was that it started out easy then harder then easy. so may be it was adaptive or simply means my DC knew later and former part of the test.

[Anonymous]

My kid said that the iready math questions seemed like regular math questions and were very straightforward. So, there isn't anything about the format that should pose problems for children who are good with math. Was your child perhaps not being fully cooperative? Does your child possibly have some knowledge gaps?

[Anonymous]

Have you received the scores? If not, wait to see if there’s even anything to be worried about.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The content ceiling was end of 3rd grade math for 2nd graders at the beginning of the year, and maybe beyond that for the mid year testing. Your child probably was getting 3rd grade math questions.

How high was the iready score from the fall testing?

The content ceiling is only supposed to be one grade level above?

[Anonymous]

Since this is a test that is administered in home class, I don't see why you couldn't just ask your child's home room teacher if you have these questions.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Since this is a test that is administered in home class, I don't see why you couldn't just ask your child's home room teacher if you have these questions.

It takes weeks or months sometimes to get complete scores and breakdown so it's premature to ask teachers now who don't necessarily have all the information.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Since this is a test that is administered in home class, I don't see why you couldn't just ask your child's home room teacher if you have these questions.

It takes weeks or months sometimes to get complete scores and breakdown so it's premature to ask teachers now who don't necessarily have all the information.

At the end-of-first-quarter conference, I was handed a sheet that had my child's score breakdowns in each sub category for iready, as well as a composite score. OP should be able to ask the school for this report sheet for at least the fall testing.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP here - what I don't understand is DC didn't even get multiplication or division questions that other kids got.

Which means DC was doing addition and subtraction and other easy questions, not getting all correctly so didn't move up to get more difficult questions?

Or DC finished all those multiplication and division questions in the previous test and didn't get those same types of questions.

Trying to figure out what happened but of course I'm getting limited information from a 7 year old.

How do you know the types of questions the other kids got on their assessment?