Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I still don’t understand what it is and I have a kid in 2nd grade. Could someone help me out?

+1. The results seemed reasonable for my kids. I would love to have someone explain why the test is so horrible. Unless the results are meaningless, I'd rather have the kids sit for this test 3 times per year than have the kids miss full weeks of reading group during DRA administration.

Exactly.

Anonymous wrote:OH MY GOD!!!! I can't believe they are trying to use Iready as a curriculum. I will sell my house as FAST as I can- or find a way to pay for private. I can buy a house anywhere else, pay way less, and get a better education for my kids.
The test is horrible especially in the younger grades. Even baltimore city doesn't use it until the older grades. This is unbelievable
-APS teacher FCPS parent

A curriculum? How do you figure?

My students took the assessment in the fall. They took it again this winter. That's it. Some schools are using it as an intervention tool.

Anonymous wrote:I still don’t understand what it is and I have a kid in 2nd grade. Could someone help me out?

+1. The results seemed reasonable for my kids. I would love to have someone explain why the test is so horrible. Unless the results are meaningless, I'd rather have the kids sit for this test 3 times per year than have the kids miss full weeks of reading group during DRA administration.

I still don’t understand what it is and I have a kid in 2nd grade. Could someone help me out?

OH MY GOD!!!! I can't believe they are trying to use Iready as a curriculum. I will sell my house as FAST as I can- or find a way to pay for private. I can buy a house anywhere else, pay way less, and get a better education for my kids.
The test is horrible especially in the younger grades. Even baltimore city doesn't use it until the older grades. This is unbelievable
-APS teacher FCPS parent

Anonymous wrote:Are the scores sent home? I know my kids took it again recently but haven't heard a score.

Some schools send them home and some don’t. If yours doesn’t you can request it.

Are the scores sent home? I know my kids took it again recently but haven't heard a score.

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Anonymous wrote:The scores for my kids seemed pretty accurate, and both rose by about the expected amount. Is most of the opposition to iready that people had over-inflated views of their kid's ability?

No. It's a bad test. It's way too long, it's the same test three times in the year, and it doesn't reveal useful information f'd the vast majority of kids on grade level. I could see an argument for using it for kids needing intervention but even then I think it's iffy. It's a huge, expensive, time-wasting resource suck.

Assuming you're a teacher, what are you seeing with this test? Do the results seem grossly inaccurate for your students, and if so, how? Are the scores generally too low or too high? Is your school using just the assessment part or also the intervention part? What grade level are you teaching? We have been given so little info about this test and what the results mean.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It's the same test. Lots and lots of kids did worse this time around. We're a pilot school for the math lessons and they are SO sick of iReady. It's the same test as fall and it's really long (60-90 mins average) and the kids just blow it off, so it's not an accurate assessment. Franky it's a HUGE waste of instructional time and if I was a parent I'd be raising hell about how much time is wasted.

Yes to this. Parents, please complain to your region assistant superintendent. Principals and teachers will thank you. And most importantly, your kid will thank you.

With i-Ready I have not had to assess all of my students using the DRA. I lose a lot more instructional time giving the DRA compared to i-Ready. It isn’t even close.

Yes, but the DRA was not admit mustered to all kids k-6 three times a year. You're thinking about yourself. But think about the instructional time lost to every kid K-6 three times a year in two subjects!!!!

Teaching third or fourth grade I had to give the DRA to most of my students in the fall and all of my students in the spring. That was at minimum two per student, but often three or four for each. How much instruction was going on while I was sitting with individuals one at a time to administer the DRA? Last year I had thirty students. The DRA filled up a good chunk of the reading block for weeks.

Anonymous wrote:The scores for my kids seemed pretty accurate, and both rose by about the expected amount. Is most of the opposition to iready that people had over-inflated views of their kid's ability?

No. It's a bad test. It's way too long, it's the same test three times in the year, and it doesn't reveal useful information f'd the vast majority of kids on grade level. I could see an argument for using it for kids needing intervention but even then I think it's iffy. It's a huge, expensive, time-wasting resource suck.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It's the same test. Lots and lots of kids did worse this time around. We're a pilot school for the math lessons and they are SO sick of iReady. It's the same test as fall and it's really long (60-90 mins average) and the kids just blow it off, so it's not an accurate assessment. Franky it's a HUGE waste of instructional time and if I was a parent I'd be raising hell about how much time is wasted.

Yes to this. Parents, please complain to your region assistant superintendent. Principals and teachers will thank you. And most importantly, your kid will thank you.

With i-Ready I have not had to assess all of my students using the DRA. I lose a lot more instructional time giving the DRA compared to i-Ready. It isn’t even close.

Yes, but the DRA was not admit mustered to all kids k-6 three times a year. You're thinking about yourself. But think about the instructional time lost to every kid K-6 three times a year in two subjects!!!!

The scores for my kids seemed pretty accurate, and both rose by about the expected amount. Is most of the opposition to iready that people had over-inflated views of their kid's ability?

Long, long test and the multiplication and division are done weirdly. Many, many kids' scores dropped. Kids got tired of using scratch paper and just guessed because they were sick of it. Ignore it and complain to higher ups. Please!

Anonymous wrote:It's the same test each time. Maybe different questions, but same levels. Is the teacher new and/or does the teacher have a reputation of not being effective? Does your child have any attention issues or anxiety?

yes and yes

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It's the same test. Lots and lots of kids did worse this time around. We're a pilot school for the math lessons and they are SO sick of iReady. It's the same test as fall and it's really long (60-90 mins average) and the kids just blow it off, so it's not an accurate assessment. Franky it's a HUGE waste of instructional time and if I was a parent I'd be raising hell about how much time is wasted.

Yes to this. Parents, please complain to your region assistant superintendent. Principals and teachers will thank you. And most importantly, your kid will thank you.

With i-Ready I have not had to assess all of my students using the DRA. I lose a lot more instructional time giving the DRA compared to i-Ready. It isn’t even close.