Curriculum Associates developed a K-12 adaptive diagnostic
and K-8 instruction online program, built for Common Core State Standards
called i-Ready. This program is designed to provide students with
individualized diagnostic assessments and engaging instruction. The focus of
this online program is reading and math. The reading portion covers:
Phonological Awareness, Phonics, High Frequency Words, Vocabulary, and
Comprehension. The math portion covers: Number and Operations, Algebra-Algebraic
thinking, Measurement & Data, and Geometry.
i-Ready Diagnostic and Instruction helps teachers to effectively assess their
students and then provide individualized instruction based on each student’s
unique needs.
By giving students these adaptive assessments that are
derived from the CCSS, educators are able to easily and more effectively gage
the academic strengths and weakness of each student in their classroom. The
adaptive assessment automatically adjust in difficulty level of questions
according to the students responses. This will determine their skill level in
both reading and math. i-Ready presents students with questions that may be
below and above the student’s performance abilities. The test are designed this
way because it evaluates both the correct and incorrect answers in order to
match the student to the appropriate skill level. Each time a student gets an
answer incorrect, he or she will be presented with a simpler question until the
diagnostic finds the grade level at which the student is performing well. In my
opinion This method of assessments allows for educators to directly see the
exact CCSS that the students need more practice with.
Once the results are available students are assigned a username and a password to
access further online instruction in the form of interactive activities on the
i-Ready website. This is perfect because the student has 24hr access to i-Ready
instruction. The program uses entertaining and attention grabbing game like
activities to teach the self-paced lessons.
These activities assist the student in building a stronger skill set on
the CCSS standards in which they exhibited low scores on the test. This offers
great support in increasing the student’s abilities in mastering each skill
level. As a result the students experience learning that attracts and
captivates their interest while teaching them crucial skills and concepts needed
to prepare them for the Standardized Smarter Balanced Test and promote their college
and career readiness. I personally have experience with i-Ready. My son is in
the 2nd grade and uses the i-Ready program to practice Common Core
State Standards and prepare him for the Standardized Smarter Balanced test. He
completes the lessons after homework and enjoys the interactive learning games.
I’m highly interested in seeing how his skill development from using i-Ready impacts
his performance on the SBAC.
Information derived from http://www.curriculumassociates.com/products/iready/diagnostic-instruction.aspx
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