I-Ready Flashcards
What is i-Ready Diagnostic and Instruction?
An online product that combines of a valid and reliable growth measure and individualized instruction. This product saves teacher times and is a fraction of the cost of similar products.
What is an adaptive diagnostic?
Adaptive assessments, like i-Ready® Diagnostic, leverage advanced technology to provide a deep, customized evaluation of every student and to track student growth and performance consistently and continuously over a student’s entire K–12 career.
By dynamically adapting based on student response patterns, adaptive assessments are able to derive large amounts of information from a limited number of test items. This allows the assessments to more accurately and more efficiently pinpoint students’ needs as compared to traditional fixed-form tests.
How does i-Ready identifies why students are struggling?
i-Ready Diagnostic adapts to each student, providing easier or harder questions depending on students’ answers to previous questions.
This is especially beneficial for providing differentiated instruction and for identifying gaps spanning back multiple years, or for determining where students are ready for further challenge. i-Ready Diagnostic assesses student performance across the key domains in reading and mathematics for grades K–12, providing a valid and reliable measure of student growth with
What advantages are there to having iReady measure growth across a student’s career.
Because the Diagnostic adapts across grades K–12, i-Ready provides a valid and reliable growth measure from year to year. Use i-Ready across the district to track yearly student progress and to optimize administrative decision making for long-term performance improvements.
How does i-Ready support data-driven differentiated instruction.
Based on the Diagnostic results, i-Ready automatically provides individualized online and teacher-led instruction targeted to each student’s unique needs. In addition, easy-to-read reports provide teachers with a detailed action plan for individual and group instruction and the tools to deliver that instruction in any style learning environment.
Many educators familiar with xed-form assessments may have some questions about the information gained from an adaptive assessment: With a limited number of test items, how can I be sure of the skills my students have and have not mastered? How do I know that my student has mastered a skill, if he has not been tested on it?
This is where i-Ready’s sophisticated adaptive logic and a bank of thousands of test items come into play—pinpointing students’ needs in reading and math down to the domain and sub-skill levels.
What do Administrators using i-Ready get insight into:
• Percent of students performing below, on, and above grade level • Percent of students on track to meet annual growth expectations • Details by school, grade, class, and student
How i-Ready Diagnostic Works?
Adaptive Structure:
i-Ready Diagnostic adapts, or adjusts, until it nds exactly the level at which students need to receive instruction.
• When students answer questions correctly, i-Ready gives them more challenging questions
• When students answer questions incorrectly, i-Ready gives them less challenging questions
• This process continues. In the end, i-Ready pinpoints which skills each student has mastered and which skills need improvement
Upon completion of the i-Ready adaptive Diagnostic, what are the multiple types of scores are reported to • Scale Scores – a common language across grades and schools. Scale scores put everything on a single continuum so that educators can compare across grade levels. They provide a metric, which indicates that a student has mastered skills up to a certain point and still needs to work on skills that come after that point
• Placement Levels – the practical day-to-day language that helps teachers determine what grade level of skills to focus on with a particular student. Placement levels indicate where students should be receiving instruction
• Norm Scores – identify how students are performing relative to their peers nationwide. Based on a nationally representative sample of students taking the i-Ready Diagnostic, they specify a student’s ranking compared to students in the same grade. For example, if a student’s percentile rank is 90%, this means the student scored better than or equal to 90% of her national peers from the same grade level
• Lexile® Measures – developed by MetaMetrics®, Lexile measures are widely used as measures of text complexity and reading ability, allowing a direct link between the level of reading materials and the student’s ability to read those materials
• Quantile® Measures – developed by MetaMetrics, the Quantile Framework for Mathematics is a unique resource for accurately estimating a student’s ability to think mathematically and matching him/her with appropriate mathematical content
Educators are also given explicit qualitative information on each student’s abilities:
• The speci c skills students have mastered and those that need to be prioritized for instruction
• Standard-by-standard analysis that details student performance against Common Core standards and sub-skills
• Scale Scores – a common language across grades and schools. Scale scores put everything on a single continuum so that educators can compare across grade levels. They provide a metric, which indicates that a student has mastered skills up to a certain point and still needs to work on skills that come after that point
• Placement Levels – the practical day-to-day language that helps teachers determine what grade level of skills to focus on with a particular student. Placement levels indicate where students should be receiving instruction
• Norm Scores – identify how students are performing relative to their peers nationwide. Based on a nationally representative sample of students taking the i-Ready Diagnostic, they specify a student’s ranking compared to students in the same grade. For example, if a student’s percentile rank is 90%, this means the student scored better than or equal to 90% of her national peers from the same grade level
• Lexile® Measures – developed by MetaMetrics®, Lexile measures are widely used as measures of text complexity and reading ability, allowing a direct link between the level of reading materials and the student’s ability to read those materials
• Quantile® Measures – developed by MetaMetrics, the Quantile Framework for Mathematics is a unique resource for accurately estimating a student’s ability to think mathematically and matching him/her with appropriate mathematical content
Educators are also given explicit qualitative information on each student’s abilities:
• The speci c skills students have mastered and those that need to be prioritized for instruction
• Standard-by-standard analysis that details student performance against Common Core standards and sub-skills
What areas does i-Ready assessacross the following content areas, also known as domains?
Reading
• Phonological Awareness
• Phonics & Word Recognition
• Vocabulary
• Reading Comprehension: Literature
• Reading Comprehension: Informational Text
Mathematics
• Counting and Cardinality
• Number & Operations in Base Ten
• Number & Operations – Fractions
• The Number System
• Number and Quantity
• Operations & Algebraic Thinking
• Ratios and Proportional Relationships
• Expressions and Equations • Functions
• Algebra
• Measu
How does i-Ready help make a Successful transition to the CCSS (or High States Testing) which requires visibility into student performance on the more rigorous assessments that are to come?
I-Ready uses measures that are highly correlated to Common Core (High Stakes Assessment) based assessments, which is a critical step.
Common Core support embedded into the entire program
• Covers more than 90% of assessable standards in Grades K–8 as well as most standards in High School Math and Reading
• Assesses both procedural and conceptual uency
• Presents a range of challenging informational and literary texts, including authentic texts and multimedia items
• Prepares for College and Career Readiness expectations, including the Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium (SBAC) and Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers (PARCC) expectation
In short, state 3 specific outcomes a customer should get with the purchase of i-Ready?
i-Ready Diagnostic is a computer-delivered, adaptive assessment in Reading and Mathematics for students in Kindergarten through High School. This assessment was developed to serve several purposes:
• Accurately and e ciently assess student knowledge by adapting to each student’s ability for the content strands within each subject. O er an accurate assessment of student knowledge, which can be monitored over a period of time to measure student growth
• Provide valid and reliable information on skills students are likely to have mastered and the recommended next steps for instruction
• Link assessment results to instructional advice and student placement decisions
What are the 3 kinds of i-Ready reports?
District and School Reports A district or school level view gives administrators a clear indication of overall performance and the extent of intervention needed in the district. This real-time visibility enables immediate and effective course corrections.
Class Reports Class reports provide teachers with a wealth of information to monitor and drive student growth. Teachers can quickly see which students need intervention, the key areas to target for each student, and how to group students for instruction.
Student Reports i-Ready provides teachers and parents with a detailed and easy-to-read analysis of every student’s proficiency levels. Reports detail which skills students have mastered and those skills to prioritize next for instruction, thereby supporting reading and math success for every student.
