Anonymous wrote:IReady was there first real proof that our child had reading issues (we knew it as parents but school said there was no issue) and then when we got the broken down score- it was even worse. So I don’t think the scores are useless and I would push to get the broken down score not just cumulative.

I agree with this. Our teacher last year shared those scores with us and it was extremely helpful to figure what we needed to work on at home. Our teacher this year wouldn't share the score and the school's testing coordinator just released the cumulative score when she released them for the whole school.

IReady was there first real proof that our child had reading issues (we knew it as parents but school said there was no issue) and then when we got the broken down score- it was even worse. So I don’t think the scores are useless and I would push to get the broken down score not just cumulative.

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.

Anonymous wrote:Our school, bull run es, gives them three times a year! Then the teachers say not to worry about the results. (Then-why are they testing them three times, if the results dont matter)

Same like they say don’t worry about Cogat or NNAT, they downplay as much as they can, so parents don’t intervene and god forbid prepare their child

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Anonymous wrote:Teacher here. This assessment stinks for so many reasons and I don’t know any teachers that think it helps understand students at all. Most look at the scores once and disregard. We are required to give it. We watch the kids rush to get to the games or choose any answer just to get it done. They are sick of testing. Pay no attention to it.

I should've read this response before I wrote. Yes, we are tired of your excuses.

Yeah, this is something that every Teacher I know has said since DS was in K. It is a commonly known issue with the test. My favorite was listening to the stories from Distance Learning where my Teacher friends were telling parents they could hear them answering the question for their child or see the parent entering answers for their child.

iReady is a joke, and my kid starts the year in the Spring range the school is aiming for and his scores go up with each test. I have no idea what that tells the Teacher that they don't already know from working with the kids. He has one friend who took 5 days to take the test because the kid has OCD and wants to get everything right and is a really slow test taker. The family finally just told the school the kid wasn't finishing the test because he was missing class to take an assessment. I heard one of my sons friends laughing that it took him 15 minutes to do the test but that he got to play lots of games. All over the place and no way to make heads or tales over what the results mean.

Anonymous wrote:Teacher here. This assessment stinks for so many reasons and I don’t know any teachers that think it helps understand students at all. Most look at the scores once and disregard. We are required to give it. We watch the kids rush to get to the games or choose any answer just to get it done. They are sick of testing. Pay no attention to it.

I should've read this response before I wrote. Yes, we are tired of your excuses.

Our school apparently did iReady in February without telling us because I checked on Parentvue and lo and behold there were winter iReady scores up. My child's score increased but percentiles decreased - so much for the school's "oh, it was the beginning of the school year and kids just weren't up for taking online tests, they all did poorly and their scores will go up in the spring!"

Teacher here. This assessment stinks for so many reasons and I don’t know any teachers that think it helps understand students at all. Most look at the scores once and disregard. We are required to give it. We watch the kids rush to get to the games or choose any answer just to get it done. They are sick of testing. Pay no attention to it.

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Anonymous wrote:DD was probably the only one disliked game at end of each iready session, she said the it was scary and refused to proceed.

Which school(s) gave iReady more than just in the fall?

Yeah, I’m confused. My kids only took fall iReady at our school.

It’s optional during the winter window. Our students took it in the fall and haven’t taken it again yet.

Our school just announced that we are going to do it again this Spring.

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Yes. Winter is optional. Funny thing is ours take it on the fall and then we never really do anything with it.

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Anonymous wrote:DD was probably the only one disliked game at end of each iready session, she said the it was scary and refused to proceed.

Which school(s) gave iReady more than just in the fall?

Yeah, I’m confused. My kids only took fall iReady at our school.

It’s optional during the winter window. Our students took it in the fall and haven’t taken it again yet.

Our school just announced that we are going to do it again this Spring.

All students are taking it in the spring. So dumb!

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Anonymous wrote:DD was probably the only one disliked game at end of each iready session, she said the it was scary and refused to proceed.

Which school(s) gave iReady more than just in the fall?

Yeah, I’m confused. My kids only took fall iReady at our school.

It’s optional during the winter window. Our students took it in the fall and haven’t taken it again yet.

Our school just announced that we are going to do it again this Spring.

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Anonymous wrote:DD was probably the only one disliked game at end of each iready session, she said the it was scary and refused to proceed.

Which school(s) gave iReady more than just in the fall?

Yeah, I’m confused. My kids only took fall iReady at our school.

It’s optional during the winter window. Our students took it in the fall and haven’t taken it again yet.

Our school, bull run es, gives them three times a year! Then the teachers say not to worry about the results. (Then-why are they testing them three times, if the results dont matter)

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Anonymous wrote:DD was probably the only one disliked game at end of each iready session, she said the it was scary and refused to proceed.

Which school(s) gave iReady more than just in the fall?

Yeah, I’m confused. My kids only took fall iReady at our school.

Anonymous wrote:DD was probably the only one disliked game at end of each iready session, she said the it was scary and refused to proceed.

Which school(s) gave iReady more than just in the fall?