Anonymous wrote:The vibe I get from my kid's school is they want to use the scores internally. They do NOT want to have to deal with parents questioning why their kids bombed it, excelled at it, or had scores that are wildly different from the last time they took it. Honestly, I understand that perspective. But it's also frustrating to feel locked out from results or dismissed when you bring scores up. I wish they would just drop the test.

+1 The scores go done sometimes over the year which makes it look like the kid is at a negative learning loss since the summer. No one can explain this to the parents. It makes the teachers look bad. So, they hoard the test results for months and months. When they finally post it there is another test result allegedly coming so they tell the parents not to worry and to wait for the next result. The test is flawed. The process is flawed. It was a huge flop and waste of money. This company made out big time while our kids suffered taking the same exact reading passages again and again.

The vibe I get from my kid's school is they want to use the scores internally. They do NOT want to have to deal with parents questioning why their kids bombed it, excelled at it, or had scores that are wildly different from the last time they took it. Honestly, I understand that perspective. But it's also frustrating to feel locked out from results or dismissed when you bring scores up. I wish they would just drop the test.

This is a good point. We have not received the iReady test score from mid-January. Now the parents can’t complain about something being done about a low score because it’s summer vacation. Plus, they can say the score is old. Again, they hoard the scores and do not use the scores to help understand weaknesses in reading. They should go away with the test because it’s not being used.

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Anonymous wrote:Speaking of un-timely results . . . has anyone see their kids scores from the spring iReady test? It's the last day of elementary school, so I guess parents won't have the opportunity to raise any concerns at this point.

No, but my kid just took it last week. I think the testing window ended last Friday.

Wow! I think my kid took it in March.

The testing window reported by FCPS spans anywhere from April 7 to June 6. Reports are usually posted to SIS within 1 month of the close of the window so sometime in the next month I guess.

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Anonymous wrote:Speaking of un-timely results . . . has anyone see their kids scores from the spring iReady test? It's the last day of elementary school, so I guess parents won't have the opportunity to raise any concerns at this point.

No, but my kid just took it last week. I think the testing window ended last Friday.

Wow! I think my kid took it in March.

Anonymous wrote:Speaking of un-timely results . . . has anyone see their kids scores from the spring iReady test? It's the last day of elementary school, so I guess parents won't have the opportunity to raise any concerns at this point.

I just came here to ask the same thing. The teachers or at least admin already have access to their preliminary report but for some reason, they insist on waiting forever to share their score. I was hoping to grab my daughter's estimated lexile score off of it to start pulling books from the library tomorrow but I guess we won't be doing that. Our school also took their reports from the winter off of parentvue a few days ago which is annoying.

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Anonymous wrote:I’m ready to get rid of iReady. What a waste of resources! The teachers hated it. The students hated it. And the parents didn’t get the results timely nor ever know what was being done about the results. Sometimes the score would go down from September to January. Kids made fun of the software and how it used the same reading passages every time. Its adaptive capability had flaws. If a student confused rows and columns in a matrix, it would bottom out at that grade. It was just majorly flawed.

+1 Kids would all joke about the same poems and passsges time after time. They wouldn’t even re-read the passages because they felt that they recalled it from 3 months ago.

My 7th and 5th graders can quote some of the passages.

Anonymous wrote:Speaking of un-timely results . . . has anyone see their kids scores from the spring iReady test? It's the last day of elementary school, so I guess parents won't have the opportunity to raise any concerns at this point.

No, but my kid just took it last week. I think the testing window ended last Friday.

Speaking of un-timely results . . . has anyone see their kids scores from the spring iReady test? It's the last day of elementary school, so I guess parents won't have the opportunity to raise any concerns at this point.

Anonymous wrote:I’m ready to get rid of iReady. What a waste of resources! The teachers hated it. The students hated it. And the parents didn’t get the results timely nor ever know what was being done about the results. Sometimes the score would go down from September to January. Kids made fun of the software and how it used the same reading passages every time. Its adaptive capability had flaws. If a student confused rows and columns in a matrix, it would bottom out at that grade. It was just majorly flawed.

+1 Kids would all joke about the same poems and passsges time after time. They wouldn’t even re-read the passages because they felt that they recalled it from 3 months ago.

Anonymous wrote:It seems to be a good test for identifying kids who are really having problems/at risk, but at my kid’s school they take it 3x a year in K-2, 2x a year at least in 3rd and 4th (the spring iready seems to be supplanted by the SOL’s by that point), and each test takes a large chunk of the day and is “like 100 questions” according to my kid. It seems like there’s a better use of class time for many kids.

This. My kid doesn't have to take this every year. She's above grade level in everything. It's useless for her.

My school used to use Reading Inventory and we far preferred it. IReady takes FOREVER. Minimum 2 full class blocks, every time they have to take it which is 3x per year. The kids get fatigued on it and then rush. I can’t stand it.