Anonymous wrote:iReady is not used in ANY WAY to determine whether a child is eligible for AAP nor is it a particularly good indicator of anything except whether your child is below or at grade level. It's mostly used to identify if a chid is below grade level and needs intervention. It's NOT used for the opposite. You're all insane.

I was told iReady would be one of the data points on AAP eligibility this year.

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Anonymous wrote:Our school doesn’t give parents the scores anymore because they think they are crap.

they are erroneous

I would agree. Any test telling someone they got “well over” the 99th percentile is fos because that’s not how percentiles work. But ok.

hey guys, my daughter scored a 58 percentile on her math winter iready diagnostic, and a 68 percentile for reading, is that good or bad??

iReady is not used in ANY WAY to determine whether a child is eligible for AAP nor is it a particularly good indicator of anything except whether your child is below or at grade level. It's mostly used to identify if a chid is below grade level and needs intervention. It's NOT used for the opposite. You're all insane.

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Anonymous wrote:iReady is a crock of shit. My daughter clicks through and got horrible ready scores. I spoke with her teacher, the reading specialist, and the math specialist and they all said that her actual performance is significantly better than iReady.

Well, any test is a crock of sh!t for someone who just "clicks through." You can't really blame the test for that ....

Your defensiveness about iready is super weird. Every teacher I've talked to has said that iready is useless.

One of the commonly cited issues with the iReady is that kids just click through so that they can get to the games at the end. All of my Teacher friends tell me that the iReady is meaningless for a large group of kids because of the click through issue. They also tell me that there is no way to recover from a mistake. One mistake and it drops to easier questions and there is no way to build up to that same level. So a low score might mean that a kid is missing important knowledge or skill or that the kid misread one question but is probably fine in that area. DS has one area in the reading iReady that this happens to every test. The Teachers tell us they know what is happening because it is one area, it has changed with every iReady, and they don't see any indication of there being an issue in the actual classwork. And he passes advanced on the SOL every year.

None of my Teacher friends think the iReady is particularly useful.

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Anonymous wrote:iReady is a crock of shit. My daughter clicks through and got horrible ready scores. I spoke with her teacher, the reading specialist, and the math specialist and they all said that her actual performance is significantly better than iReady.

Well, any test is a crock of sh!t for someone who just "clicks through." You can't really blame the test for that ....

Your defensiveness about iready is super weird. Every teacher I've talked to has said that iready is useless.

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Anonymous wrote:iReady is a crock of shit. My daughter clicks through and got horrible ready scores. I spoke with her teacher, the reading specialist, and the math specialist and they all said that her actual performance is significantly better than iReady.

Your child might have trouble using computer. You might want to investigate and work on it. I don't think they have paper iReady.

My child uses the computer just fine, she just doesn't want to do these long computer-based tests. We've talked to her about it, we've talked to her teachers about it, she does academic enrichment outside of school, she just doesn't like these tests. It's too bad because most tests nowadays are on the computer.

Anonymous wrote:iReady is a crock of shit. My daughter clicks through and got horrible ready scores. I spoke with her teacher, the reading specialist, and the math specialist and they all said that her actual performance is significantly better than iReady.

Well, any test is a crock of sh!t for someone who just "clicks through." You can't really blame the test for that ....

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Anonymous wrote:iReady is a crock of shit. My daughter clicks through and got horrible ready scores. I spoke with her teacher, the reading specialist, and the math specialist and they all said that her actual performance is significantly better than iReady.

Your child might have trouble using computer. You might want to investigate and work on it. I don't think they have paper iReady.

My kid got incredibly poor scores. I’m not sure why, and since the results came months after the actual test, he doesn’t even remember what happened. He is well above average in reading and math, there is no way those score are accurate.

Some kids get bored with the test. They quickly figure out that wrong answers make it end sooner.

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Anonymous wrote:iReady is a crock of shit. My daughter clicks through and got horrible ready scores. I spoke with her teacher, the reading specialist, and the math specialist and they all said that her actual performance is significantly better than iReady.

Your child might have trouble using computer. You might want to investigate and work on it. I don't think they have paper iReady.

My kid got incredibly poor scores. I’m not sure why, and since the results came months after the actual test, he doesn’t even remember what happened. He is well above average in reading and math, there is no way those score are accurate.

Anonymous wrote:iReady is a crock of shit. My daughter clicks through and got horrible ready scores. I spoke with her teacher, the reading specialist, and the math specialist and they all said that her actual performance is significantly better than iReady.

Your child might have trouble using computer. You might want to investigate and work on it. I don't think they have paper iReady.

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Anonymous wrote:iReady is a crock of shit. My daughter clicks through and got horrible ready scores. I spoke with her teacher, the reading specialist, and the math specialist and they all said that her actual performance is significantly better than iReady.

So your daughter blows though it and that invalidates it?

She doesn't really make an effort therefore she answers questions incorrectly and gets abysmally low scores.

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Anonymous wrote:I'm not in the DCUM area but this discussion strikes a cord - my 4th grader is in the 99th percentile for iready math, again. He got in the 98th percentile on cogAT for quantitative. Still, our school won't place him in the gifted program, because his verbal scores are around the 75%. So freaking annoyed! They let him sit in the classroom bored out of his mind but have a pullout program for kids who scored lower than him on both tests. We do Beast Academy at home now, so whatever. He'll continue to outscore the gifted kids and the school will do nothing for him.

Welcome to FCPS where an IQ test in second grade determines whether or not you are allowed to take advanced classes.

You can re-test and reapply every year.

The test that matters is still an IQ test. Subject matter tests don't matter for level IV

That's not even slightly true. If you're applying in 4th grade or later, then SOL scores (ie subject matter tests), work samples, and GBRS/teacher comments are much more heavily weighted than CogAT. They care less about ability scores and more about demonstrated ability to keep up with AAP standards.

Also, if you want to retest, FCPS gives one free CogAT retest that kids can use any year after 2nd grade.

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Anonymous wrote:I'm not in the DCUM area but this discussion strikes a cord - my 4th grader is in the 99th percentile for iready math, again. He got in the 98th percentile on cogAT for quantitative. Still, our school won't place him in the gifted program, because his verbal scores are around the 75%. So freaking annoyed! They let him sit in the classroom bored out of his mind but have a pullout program for kids who scored lower than him on both tests. We do Beast Academy at home now, so whatever. He'll continue to outscore the gifted kids and the school will do nothing for him.

Welcome to FCPS where an IQ test in second grade determines whether or not you are allowed to take advanced classes.

You can re-test and reapply every year.

The test that matters is still an IQ test. Subject matter tests don't matter for level IV

Anonymous wrote:iReady is a crock of shit. My daughter clicks through and got horrible ready scores. I spoke with her teacher, the reading specialist, and the math specialist and they all said that her actual performance is significantly better than iReady.

So your daughter blows though it and that invalidates it?