Students take i-Ready test in the spring

by Hector S.

Students took the i-Ready test, the district-wide reading assessment, this spring for the second time and showed improvement, according to staff.

Testing coordinator Mr. Mandujano said the test, “measures a wide variety of skills within math and English, that’s why it’s long and it’s pretty much a diagnostic of where the students skill set is.”

He also added that it’s an adaptive test meaning that the questions come from elementary level math and English all the way up to high school.

He explained that another reason the test is mandatory is because the test measures students’ math and English skills and that the district wants data on where its current students are at and if they are at grade level or not. 

When asked about if there has been any growth in the i-Ready results from last year compared to this years, Mr. Mandujano said, “Yeah, so there has definitely been some growth and that’s something that students are going to see in their advisories so they can see how they grow and how the growth was as a school and as an individual student.”

He further explained that the biggest growth was seen in English/Reading with a smaller growth in math and he said that the growth was part of a collective effort by all school staff.

Ms. Sanchez, who helped to coordinate the testing, said what went well was that the school only spent one day for math and one day for English as opposed to when the exam was administered in the English or math classrooms, which, she said, takes multiple days and that takes away from instructional time.

“For the I-ready, it was mostly during advisory and I’m in charge of creating the advisory slides so my role in the I-ready was to make sure that every Wednesday and Thursday there was an announcement for every advisory that you had to practice on either IXL or i-Ready,” she said.