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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You also need to advocate to remove I-Ready scores from teacher’s TAS scores as well. I have to have 80% of my students meet or exceed their stretch goal (go read what I-Ready says about stretch goals). If I have a student well below level or well above level, the content they are being assessed on is essentially I-Ready content. If kids don’t do those lessons, they won’t make the stretch goal. So yes, they will need to do lessons in class. When I didn’t have that goal, we didn’t do lessons, just the diagnostics. [/quote]

As a parent I also really wish this wasn’t the case. I see such a difference in how the EOY test is administered vs the BOY and MOY ones. My kid gets rushed through the earlier ones. For the EOY, DC gets several days if they need it and they are encouraged to take their time. Totally different than the earlier ones. Their school also does special small groups before the EOY to teach some of the iready material that hasn’t come up in class. And the school also does tons of awards and prizes for making goals for EOY. It feels like the teachers deliberately hold back on teaching some the iready-specific stuff until May so that they can show growth. It works because my DC always does the best percentile-wise in the EOY. But I don’t like how differently it’s handled. It feels like they are manipulating the scores because that’s how they are being evaluated. I can’t blame them if that’s the incentive but I wish it weren’t the case. [/quote]

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