I could spend this blog post writing about how these tests are designed to be short, but often stretch on for hours, but I won’t. After all, this is just a test, right? In this era of public schooling, children take many assessments, some more useful than others, so what’s the big deal with iReady? So, let’s get back to the claim in the title of this blog post. While I have found this assessment deeply troubling all year, it has taken me a while to be able to articulate exactly why I think this assessment is so dangerous, and why I think we need to use our voices as teachers, administrators and parents to speak out against it.* The Fairfax County Public Schools website further asserts that iReady is a “tool that has the potential to streamline Responsive Instruction processes, promote early identification and remediation of difficulties and improve student achievement.” Students in grades K-6 take these assessments individually on the computer three times per year, and the results are made available to both teachers and parents.Īccording to Curriculum Associates, the company that makes iReady, these assessments are an “adaptive Diagnostic for reading and mathematics pinpoints student need down to the sub-skill level, and ongoing progress monitoring show whether students are on track to achieve end-of-year targets.” This school year Fairfax County Public Schools, the 10th largest school division in the United States, adopted the iReady assessment as a universal screener across all of its elementary schools.
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