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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I am not impressed.  I know some kids do iReady at home to get skilled at iReady.  So, you can game the test  and some kids do.  Are they more skilled at reading and math?  No. And instead of reading at home or solving logic games, they are doing iReady.

I have seen wild swings on iReady with my child; swings that their model said was not possible.  So it works for some kids and not for others.  My child is three grades ahead in one subject so that may be the issue.  But regardless, it is a blunt tool like most edtech but I am not sure that it teaches the kinds of skills that our kids need to become curious learners.

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I agree it becomes less useful the further ahead your child is. It only scores them three grades above their current grade even if their score is in the range for an even higher grade. But when they are on grade level I think it can be useful, especially for math, to repeat what they need reinforced. [/quote]

The placement is weird if your kid is far ahead (because it seems aimed at actually justifying placing a child in a different level class, where it then makes sense to have a higher bar for acceleration than for staying in your actual class year, rather than assessing objective grade level). However, because of how the test works, a single mistake way above grade level has a much bigger effect, so scores way above grade level swing much more wildly as well. I have a kid who is 1 grade level ahead-ish and her scores are much more consistent (marching upwards in expected small jumps most of the time) than my kid who is 2-3+ grade levels ahead where we get wild leaps and then small falls and then wild leaps again. He got scores 15 points apart two days apart, which was a 2 grade level difference because the bands are so narrow for 2+ grade levels ahead, which is insane and nonsensical. [/quote]

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