IReady test

[Anonymous]

I just got my child's scores from the teacher. Is it normal for scores to decrease from Fall to Winter? I mean is it a steady progression from low (in first grade) to high (in 6th grade) or is each test separate like getting a 90/100 on one test and an 85/100 on the next?

[Anonymous]

They should generally go up, but my kids have had decreases before. If your kid seems to generally be learning then it’s probably a testing fluke.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I just got my child's scores from the teacher. Is it normal for scores to decrease from Fall to Winter? I mean is it a steady progression from low (in first grade) to high (in 6th grade) or is each test separate like getting a 90/100 on one test and an 85/100 on the next?

The iReady score is a compilation of like six different knowledge areas. So I've seen students take a big dip in one knowledge area and it affected their overall scores, even if they went up in one or two of the other areas. That big dip could be anything. They rushed, they got distracted, or maybe there is a learning loss. It's too hard to tell unless you get more information from the teacher who has all the reports. (ES Teacher)

[Anonymous]

iReady is a disaster - every teacher my child has had has said that they pretty much ignore the iReady scores because there are so many flaws. Last year, our FCPS school didn't use iReady and were told that they weren't going to be using it anymore. It's only back this year because it's online and easy to use for DL. I would hope that it goes away once kids are back in the building.

[Anonymous]

I'm a teacher and I we don't really use the i-Ready for much. We give it to the class in the fall and then forget about it until we have to give the DRA to those who scored under the 50th percentile. Then we give it in the winter to those students to see if they improved in the percentile ranking. Rinse and repeat.

[Anonymous]

How do you judge whether your students are learning or not without IReady?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:How do you judge whether your students are learning or not without IReady?

Please tell me this is sarcasm.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How do you judge whether your students are learning or not without IReady?

Please tell me this is sarcasm.

No - what I mean is I'm trying to find out whether my child has learned anything this year. What measurement would I use?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How do you judge whether your students are learning or not without IReady?

Please tell me this is sarcasm.

No - what I mean is I'm trying to find out whether my child has learned anything this year. What measurement would I use?

The answer is no, he hasn’t learned anything unless you’ve been supplementing with pencil, paper, workbooks or textbooks.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How do you judge whether your students are learning or not without IReady?

Please tell me this is sarcasm.

No - what I mean is I'm trying to find out whether my child has learned anything this year. What measurement would I use?

The answer is no, he hasn’t learned anything unless you’ve been supplementing with pencil, paper, workbooks or textbooks.

Ask your child what they are doing in school and listen. Take a look at their work in the school folder. Take a look at your kids emails that include assignments and Teachers returning assignments.

DS is in third and had been learning. They have done multiplication and fractions. They have written "books", essentially five paragraph essays with each paragraph called a chapter. He has produced sheets on different types of cycles for science. His Level II pullout is doing some coding and he is having fun tweaking the code for a video game.

I don't need i-Ready to tell me he is learning, I see what he is doing. I ask him what he is doing.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How do you judge whether your students are learning or not without IReady?

Please tell me this is sarcasm.

No - what I mean is I'm trying to find out whether my child has learned anything this year. What measurement would I use?

The answer is no, he hasn’t learned anything unless you’ve been supplementing with pencil, paper, workbooks or textbooks.

Ask your child what they are doing in school and listen. Take a look at their work in the school folder. Take a look at your kids emails that include assignments and Teachers returning assignments.

DS is in third and had been learning. They have done multiplication and fractions. They have written "books", essentially five paragraph essays with each paragraph called a chapter. He has produced sheets on different types of cycles for science. His Level II pullout is doing some coding and he is having fun tweaking the code for a video game.

I don't need i-Ready to tell me he is learning, I see what he is doing. I ask him what he is doing.

+1. By this measure I know that my third grader has been learning most of the year, while my first grader only recently started learning (not her teacher's fault, the first grade curriculum is extra slow this year and the teacher's usual differentiation strategies had to be tweaked due to DL).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How do you judge whether your students are learning or not without IReady?

Please tell me this is sarcasm.

No - what I mean is I'm trying to find out whether my child has learned anything this year. What measurement would I use?

The answer is no, he hasn’t learned anything unless you’ve been supplementing with pencil, paper, workbooks or textbooks.

Stop projecting. Plenty of children have been learning via DL, they're just not vocal here on DCUM. Our kids are learning, so we have nothing to whine about.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How do you judge whether your students are learning or not without IReady?

Please tell me this is sarcasm.

No - what I mean is I'm trying to find out whether my child has learned anything this year. What measurement would I use?

The answer is no, he hasn’t learned anything unless you’ve been supplementing with pencil, paper, workbooks or textbooks.

Ask your child what they are doing in school and listen. Take a look at their work in the school folder. Take a look at your kids emails that include assignments and Teachers returning assignments.

DS is in third and had been learning. They have done multiplication and fractions. They have written "books", essentially five paragraph essays with each paragraph called a chapter. He has produced sheets on different types of cycles for science. His Level II pullout is doing some coding and he is having fun tweaking the code for a video game.

I don't need i-Ready to tell me he is learning, I see what he is doing. I ask him what he is doing.

I literally sit next to him every day. I don't need your hot parenting tips to "discover" what they've been learning. It ain't happening.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How do you judge whether your students are learning or not without IReady?

Please tell me this is sarcasm.

No - what I mean is I'm trying to find out whether my child has learned anything this year. What measurement would I use?

The answer is no, he hasn’t learned anything unless you’ve been supplementing with pencil, paper, workbooks or textbooks.

Ask your child what they are doing in school and listen. Take a look at their work in the school folder. Take a look at your kids emails that include assignments and Teachers returning assignments.

DS is in third and had been learning. They have done multiplication and fractions. They have written "books", essentially five paragraph essays with each paragraph called a chapter. He has produced sheets on different types of cycles for science. His Level II pullout is doing some coding and he is having fun tweaking the code for a video game.

I don't need i-Ready to tell me he is learning, I see what he is doing. I ask him what he is doing.

My particular concern is math. I can see that he has done the work but when I ask him something in real life - that he worked on in the fall, for example, he can't tell me. I'm not sure he is retaining anything. I know when I try to learn online, I'm so distracted that I don't remember anything. I know kids are different and I'm a dinosaur but shouldn't a kid be able to multiply with a paper and pen if he has done it online?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How do you judge whether your students are learning or not without IReady?

Please tell me this is sarcasm.

No - what I mean is I'm trying to find out whether my child has learned anything this year. What measurement would I use?

The answer is no, he hasn’t learned anything unless you’ve been supplementing with pencil, paper, workbooks or textbooks.

Ask your child what they are doing in school and listen. Take a look at their work in the school folder. Take a look at your kids emails that include assignments and Teachers returning assignments.

DS is in third and had been learning. They have done multiplication and fractions. They have written "books", essentially five paragraph essays with each paragraph called a chapter. He has produced sheets on different types of cycles for science. His Level II pullout is doing some coding and he is having fun tweaking the code for a video game.

I don't need i-Ready to tell me he is learning, I see what he is doing. I ask him what he is doing.

I literally sit next to him every day. I don't need your hot parenting tips to "discover" what they've been learning. It ain't happening.

Then why do you care about your kid's iReady scores? What's the point of asking if you already think your kid isn't learning anything?