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WHICH REPORT SHOULD WE SHARE WITH PARENTS?

3. Student Profile Overview Report - The i-Ready reports are designed to review side by side with parents. When deciding whether or not to send an i-Ready report home with the report card, consider the amount of detail that can be meaningfully digested without a conference. If you choose to send a report home, BVSD recommends the Student Profile Overview Report and not the Parent Report. BVSD also has Parent Talking Points on the FAQ website to help families understand what i-Ready measures and how it is different than other assessments.

Here is a teacher “cheat sheet” for understanding the student profile overview report

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Here is some language you might consider dropping into a newsletter if you choose to send home the Student Profile Overview with report cards:

i-Ready is our computer adaptive assessment, and we use it along with the observations we gather from reading with your child to determine strengths and next steps.

On this report you will see a grade level band that looks like this.

The further the score stretches across the green area, the more secure

your child’s grade level skills have become.

In the beginning of the year, the expectation is for students to perform in the early part of the grade level band. As we move through the year, students should move further into the band. Reaching the middle of the band shows proficiency in basic grade level skills. Reaching towards the

end or “late” portion of the band shows extending skills and full mastery of grade level expectations.

Continuing to read, enjoy and talk about books over the summer will help ensure that your child comes back in the fall ready to tackle the skills for the next grade level.

IS THERE A LETTER TO EXPLAIN THE REPORT TO FAMILIES?

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Understanding the Green Band: Teacher details

Teacher Info: The BVSD expectations are determined based on i-Ready’s expectations. i-Ready sets the bands on the matrix for early, mid and late year. i-Ready also decides that to be “in the green” at the end of the year you need to have met the mid year targets. They do this because there is an 80% correlation between reaching the MID targets (developing) and proficiency on PARCC. They still say that reaching the end of year targets (extending) is full mastery of standards.

How do I talk with parents about this detailed information?

This green “on level” band on the student profile stays the same all year long.
Within the first trimester, we expect students to move into the early part of the band (early matrix target).
As we move into the mid and end of year, we expect students to move farther into the band as they master more rigorous skills. The farther you can get in the band, the more prepared you for the next grade’s skills.
Students who have met the mid year targets are demonstrating many basic grade level skills.
Students who move into the late targets have full mastery of grade level skills.
The target bands overlap from year to year since a proficient reader at the end of second grade, for example, has very similar proficiencies to a reader who is beginning third grade.
Let’s look at some of the instructional next steps we will target to target to allow your child to practice specific skills. Let’s also look at how your child is able to demonstrate these skills when reading texts in class and when writing & speaking.

green in standard view, early grade level band

green in end of year view, mid year targets, basic grade level skills

EOY Target - Full mastery of grade level end section of green band, set by i-Ready

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Need more explanation from a teacher lens?

Our understanding of i-Ready has evolved significantly since the beginning of its use. This year's Matrix reveals some of the shifts in understanding when investigating the language used. Notice that the categories are no longer fall, winter, spring. We have moved to continuum descriptors to match how i-Ready is more of a continuum and less of a traditional (fall, winter & spring) type of assessment.

Screenshot from 15-16 Matrix:

Investigating the Continuum Language:

Emerging = Students practice skills not yet developed enough to reach grade level proficiency

Developing = Students have developed many basic grade level proficiencies and are working to connect/integrate/flexibly select skills/strategies to employ.** i-Ready chooses to show students in the green if they have met MID YEAR targets.

Extending = Students have met and shown control over all basic grade level proficiencies and are extending into the beginning of next year’s grade level continuum (The Overlap Effect).

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PARENT REPORTS en español

i-Ready offers a description of each domain and what it means in Spanish. You cannot print a specific student’s report in Spanish, but the Spanish explanation of the domains can be supportive when shared alongside of the English Report.

See the Home Connections section of i-Ready Central for many home resources including the Spanish supports.

This Spanish Parent Report and many other Home resources are available on i-Ready Central under Home Connections.

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