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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I understand that teachers may find iReady scores of limited interest, but as a parent, I do find it helpful. I hear so little from my kid's teacher about her development. She gets 3s and 4s on her report card and those automated comments on her report card.

My kid fell behind in reading in kindergarten (didn't pick up phonics) and we've been trying to catch up ever since. DL hurt us, too. She's barely reading on grade level after a year of tutoring.

I don't want to be a pest and ask her teacher for feedback on what she needs to work on. We had our teacher conference at the beginning of the year but they don't do more than that at our school. They also don't put test results in Schoology and she doesn't really bring many papers home. So tests like iReady are really all I have to go on to see if she's staying on grade level.
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We have a conference after the first and third report card because we think it is important to know where our kid is and what we can be doing to help him do better. He gets pretty much all 4's but I don't fully buy the grades on the report cards and the comments are useless. I have to talk to the teacher to know where he is and to get a better feeling for the areas he could improve on. It is a part of their job to meet with parents and it is the only way I can get a glimpse as to what is happening in the classroom. The conference is 15 minutes long and has been virtual the last bunch of years. I don't think that is onerous.

I don't trust iReady because I know it is too easily blown off and because I don't know how it is adapting for each kid. DS takes it seriously, he brings home scrape paper with notes on the math problems he wasn't sure of, so it is probably pretty reliable for him. But the percentiles he is compared against are skewed by the classmates in his class (and across the country) who fly through it because they want to be done with yet another test or because they want to play the game. My Teacher friends tell me that it is not helpful for kids with learning issues at some point in time because the kids realize that they should know more then what they do and can tell when the questions get easier, so many kids just stop caring and answer randomly to finish out the test. I would guess the first few times it is useful because the kids are not test savvy, but that doesn't last all that long.

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