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[quote=Anonymous][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]

DP. My kid clearly has some gaps - on math it was the stuff they explicity said they would cover asynchronously last year (data and measurement, which were basically off curriculum for all ES grades). In language arts it was phonological awareness, which I've always been concerned about and the school ignores because we do the work at home to catch up.[/quote]

Another major reason to not take the iready as gospel. What's interesting is many of the math topics I taught in the weeks right after giving the iready.  Seriously, though. This test is useless beyond helping me know where gaps are in a student's knowledge at that particular point in time -- and it's impossible to tell whether there is a learning issue here that would require SPED or if it's plain old the kid struggled during distance learning. Or Both! They have nothing to do with AAP, even prior to COVID. And it's a single snapshot.

The thing I get stressed about is that I am struggling on grouping kids. I'm constantly assessing and trying to figure out where the kids are growing and where they need help. Reading has been interesting because I have over 10 kids who were reading at a K level basically in August and cleared a DRA 14-16 in five weeks. That's a huge amount of growth and those kids' iready scores are already useless to me. If I don't continually push and assess them, I'm going to miss their growth and opportunity to push their learning. The iready is useless here.

It's another reason why testing is ridiculous.

-PP (teacher)[/quote]

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