iready winter math score is lower than fall score - how?

[Anonymous]

I didn't read the whole thread, but my 4th grader dropped 17 points (MAP test, not iReady). The teacher casually mentioned in the fall it was in the morning, in the winter it was administered in the afternoon. Especially for an ADHD kid (my kid) time of day makes a big difference especially since he's medicated and meds are starting to wear off by then. In other subjects his scores increased, and those were administered in the morning.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I was just looking at the dates on this thread. It started in 2018 and each year or two the same topic is complained about. Nothing is changed. The students still take the Istupid test with poor, meaningless results that no one uses. Insanity.

They are used if there's an issue. Most kids don't have an issue, but they can be very helpful when there is one.

Rubbish. I’ve had Sped head and AP agree that for some kids the results are absolutely meaningless.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I was just looking at the dates on this thread. It started in 2018 and each year or two the same topic is complained about. Nothing is changed. The students still take the Istupid test with poor, meaningless results that no one uses. Insanity.

They are used if there's an issue. Most kids don't have an issue, but they can be very helpful when there is one.

Rubbish. I’ve had Sped head and AP agree that for some kids the results are absolutely meaningless.

+1, many kids just click through the entire test.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I was just looking at the dates on this thread. It started in 2018 and each year or two the same topic is complained about. Nothing is changed. The students still take the Istupid test with poor, meaningless results that no one uses. Insanity.

They are used if there's an issue. Most kids don't have an issue, but they can be very helpful when there is one.

Rubbish. I’ve had Sped head and AP agree that for some kids the results are absolutely meaningless.

+1, many kids just click through the entire test.

We were just joking that my kid's 6th grade AAP class must have done this. The entire class just got in trouble because for most of the class their scores on one section dropped - and the teacher seems pretty good.

[Anonymous]

DC scored 40 points lower in the winter than in the fall on reading and bragged about it. Some of the kids are sick of doing it 3x a year and don't try. We had a discussion.

[Anonymous]

The diagnostic is so stupid, it says that it will "understand what you are good with and give you the 'the right lessons'. The score is way below your grade level and the lessons that it thinks are ' right' for you are too easy and a waste of your time.

[Anonymous]

My 2nd grader took it today and said it was super hard with multiplication and division they hadn’t even worked on in class yet? Did anyone else’s early ES kid report similar?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My 2nd grader took it today and said it was super hard with multiplication and division they hadn’t even worked on in class yet? Did anyone else’s early ES kid report similar?

I believe that the test scales based on how kids answer. If your child gets enough right it starts to ask questions about more advanced material until the child gets consecutive answers wrong. DS normally comes home reporting questions with terminology or symbology he has not seen before. It is normally material that is a few years ahead of his grade level.

[Anonymous]

Don’t assume a great score either. My child reported above grade level content and consistently had terrible iready scores

[Anonymous]

Our previous AART told us that iReady is an adaptive test, testing kids on above grade content. She even explained the scores but I didn’t catch it fully.

[Anonymous]

I’ve administered this test to over a thousand kids in multiple grade levels. The only time a kids score goes down is I. These circumstances . . .

Kid stops caring about school for several months (only common in upper elementary)

Student has had interrupted schooling (ie sick or left country and came back)

Student rushed or blew off test. In this case their test will be flagged and they will need to retest.

If your son/daughters score when down then you and the teacher should be concerned and take action to correct their course quickly.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I’ve administered this test to over a thousand kids in multiple grade levels. The only time a kids score goes down is I. These circumstances . . .

Kid stops caring about school for several months (only common in upper elementary)

Student has had interrupted schooling (ie sick or left country and came back)

Student rushed or blew off test. In this case their test will be flagged and they will need to retest.

If your son/daughters score when down then you and the teacher should be concerned and take action to correct their course quickly.

I strongly disagree with this.

I teach and in my class -- EVERY YEAR since the i-ready has been used, I've seen 90 percent of the kids score lower in the fall than they do in the prior spring and also a good 50 percent have some sort of dip (beginning, middle, end).

It's not helpful, but I can't DRA and don't have much time to individually assess, so it is what it is. I tell parents all the time, they might know more about their children's reading ability than me because this test is so flawed.

[Anonymous]

So you just proved my point. Having no school falls under reason 2, interrupted schooling. Students are never as sharpe in the Fall as they are I. The Spring on any test, not just the iReady.