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[quote=Anonymous]DCPS teacher here. All school should be using the diagnostic assessments for reading and mathematics at the beginning of the year (BOY), middle of the year (MOY), and at the end of the year (EOY). As a teacher it is a great way of finding out where each student is with regards to being on grade level, as well as below or above grade level. It's not perfect but I'd say it has a 90% or higher rate of successfully determining where a student is. Within a month of teaching, or even less, you can easily corroborate this from classroom learning and experience.

The test is adaptive and will offer questions according to the student's ability. I'm at an elementary school and in general they take at least an hour. Any quicker and program flags the student as rushing and might need to retake the assessment. It is not timed. It can more than 2 hours, which means it is spread over two days.

My school has the lessons, I believe all schools should have access to the lessons as there is a definite push from "above" to have students complete lessons assigned to them on their i-Ready pathway. The student pathway is specific for each child's needs so I think all students get challenged wherever they score. They get lessons they need to review or push them forward. I think CAPE are scores are one measure but i-Ready scores, growth from BOY to EOY, are a better measure of student learning. CAPE just tests grade level material. There is a correlation between growth and CAPES scores.

Are the lessons useful? Yes. They introduce new content for students who are above grade level. They review for students on grade level. For students below grade level the lessons try to fill in the wholes. I guess it is substituting for a teacher, but that is what online learning is. All students still get instruction for the day's lesson. These lessons are just a part of the 90-minute block.

The stretch goal is often seen as 1.5 years of growth. It is hard to legitimately reach but students can achieve it with great teaching, hard work by all involved, and determination by the student. I have seen it done. No fudging of numbers. A lot of the time it is the student who does the majority of the work. They are motivated. They do the lessons in addition to all the classwork. A quick search says only 25-35% of students achieve the stretch goal. Yes, my admin wants the stretch goal in my TAS part of IMPACT. It is not 80%. That is almost impossible.

I hope this has helped.[/quote]

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