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[quote=Anonymous]Here's what I've found about iReady as an intervention (not the "diagnostic" assessment):

There is only one study of i-Ready personalized instruction for reading (i-Ready “intervention”) that was commissioned by Curriculum Associates, the company that owns i-Ready (Randal et al., 2020). This study only included “striving learners,” defined as students “who tested two or more grade levels below their current grade at baseline” (Randal et al., 2020, p. 5). Therefore, this study cannot draw conclusions about the effects of i-Ready on students who perform slightly below grade level, at grade level, or above grade level in reading. Further, this study uses only i-Ready diagnostics for the baseline measures and outcome measures, so it is not possible to determine if i-Ready reading intervention improves student performance on anything other than i-Ready. Reported effect sizes ranged from 0.12 to 0.14, which is considered a small effect. Randal et al. (2020) describe the effect sizes as “modest” (p. 8).

In short, we know very little about iReady -- essentially, that for kids who were a bit behind, more iReady may make them slightly better at iReady. [/quote]

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