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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]my second grade DS has 95 math, 95 reading. I am told they don't care a hoot about iready scores for AAP though and he bombed the NNAT so........[/quote]

My kid got 132 NNAT but only 75 percentile for both math and reading.  I don’t put much stock in iready but who knows.[/quote]

Smart kids could very well not be doing well in school for a variety of reasons. Unless you have reason to believe that your kid flew through the test, I would be worried that my smart kid scored in the 75th percentile. Gaps like that are how they start to identify LDs and other learning issues. [/quote]

I am going to throw a huge boulder of Salt on the i-ready. If you look at the percentiles, they were not re-normed for this year's cohort. So, the scores basically reflect what where a student's gaps where in a cohort that DID NOT have 18 months of distance learning. I don't have an apples to apples comparison. My guess is if it was re-normed (looking at my kids scores and teammates kids' scores, the percentiles would be MUCH lower across the board). The contractor didn't do this because it's insanely expensive to re-norm tests every year and the county contract didn't require them to do this (because pre-covid, there would be no reason to randomly re-norm a standardized test).

If anything, my view is that the scores are useful to identify gaps in knowledge (kid needs help with X domain) but I would in no way rely on them as a valid measurement of a kid's intelligence, ability to learn, need to accelerate.

Honestly, my opinion is that kids who scored well did well during distance learning. That's pretty much it. Kids who didn't struggled. But I have no idea why those kids did well or struggled. To me, this makes the i-ready for of a tool as it was claimed to be used for -- identifying gaps in knowledge. It does NOT explain why those gaps exist nor does it explain why some kids don't have such gaps.

-second grade teacher home with a sick toddler today :)[/quote]

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