i-Ready Flashcards

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i-Ready reports results as a single scaled score (roughly 0–800) that spans kindergarten through high school. A score of 500 in reading, for example, means the same level of skill regardless of the student's grade.

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i-Ready adjusts question difficulty in real time based on each answer. A student who answers correctly gets a harder question; wrong gets an easier one. This means the test should always feel somewhat challenging — that's by design.

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i-Ready classifies students as: 2+ grade levels below, 1 grade level below, On Grade Level, 1 grade level above, or 2+ grade levels above. The benchmark for 'On Grade Level' changes each year as NAEP data is updated.

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i-Ready Reading also reports a Lexile score — a measure of text complexity. Used to match students to appropriately challenging books. A grade 3 student reading at 600L is at roughly late-3rd-grade text difficulty.

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Measures how much a student grew compared to similar-starting students nationally. A student starting below grade level but growing at the 75th percentile is making above-average progress — a positive sign even without top placement scores.