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Iready / IXL

By Amanda A & Lilly H

i-Ready is an online program for reading and/or mathematics that will help teachers determine your student’s
needs, personalize their learning, and monitor progress throughout the school year. i-Ready allows teachers to
meet students exactly where they are, and provide data to increase the student’s learning progress.. i-Ready
consists of two parts: Diagnostic and Personalized Instruction.

IReady Diagnostic

The i-Ready Diagnostic is an adaptive assessment that adjusts its questions to suit student’s needs. Each item a student sees is individualized based on their
answer to the previous question. For example, a series of correct answers will result in slightly harder questions, while a series of incorrect answers will
yield slightly easier questions. The purpose of this is not to give your student a score or grade, but instead to determine how best to support your student’s
learning.

-Students are given 3 diagnostic tests a year

-Reports can be printed for teachers and families to visually represent students level of performance.

IReady Personalized Instruction

I-Ready Personalized Instruction provides students with lessons based on their individual skill level and needs, so your student can learn at a pace that is
just right for them. These lessons are fun and interactive to keep your student engaged as they learn.

-Teachers are able to view students progress through lessons.

-One downside is I- ready is not currently recording answers so although teachers can determine what a student answered incorrectly, they cannot
view what the student chose as an answer.

-Phonological awareness

(The understanding that spoked word is broken up into different parts, and that each of these parts make a sound)

-Phonics

( The connection of sounds students hear in spoken word to the letters written)

-High frequency words

(The words that appear most often in what students read)

-Vocabulary

(The name for the words that a student knows)

-Comprehension in literature & informational texts

(Describes a students ability to understand different types of texts)

Screen Readers

Students will be able to use screen readers to take i-Ready Diagnostic and i-Ready Growth Monitoring assessments.

Closed Captioning

Students will be able to view closed captioning for key pre recorded media in i-Ready Diagnostic and i-Ready Growth Monitoring.

Keyboard Accessibility

Students will be able to navigate through i-Ready Diagnostic and i-Ready Growth Monitoring assessments using a keyboard.
Assessment content will also support keyboard navigation for the majority of virtual tools embedded within the assessments.

Spanish Math Assessments

Spanish-speaking English Learners will be able to take i-Ready Diagnostic and i-Ready Growth Monitoring for Mathematics in
Spanish.

Source i-Ready Showstopper Accessibility 2019 (schoolwires.net)

The impact of i-Ready Instruction on student achievement in reading.

For all grade levels, the adjusted mean differences were positive, indicating the
i-Ready Instruction group earned higher scores than the matched comparison group,
who did not receive iready instruction.

These effect sizes are promising for an education intervention.

Link to peer reviewed article
ED604746.pdf

IXL provides live / real time insights into student performance, Highlights knowledge gaps, and
provides steps to help students grow. Using the diagnostic results, IXL software creates
personalized learning plans for each student.

While working on any skill within IXL’s curriculum, students receive immediate feedback.

Contains lessons and assessments for the five core subjects, that can be connected to state
standards.

Available in 190 countries

Fluency Reading

speed and accuracy of decoding as well as the ability to read with expression.

Vocabulary

explicit word study instruction.

Comprehension

Personalized and supportive instruction ...

Putting it all together

The implementation of IXL ELA showed a statistically significant effect on schools’ performance on the STAAR writing tests.

IXL schools score as much as 15 percentile points higher in math and 17 percentile points higher in
language arts on state assessments.

SourceMeasuring the Impact of IXL Math (texas.gov)