Aug 29, 2025 | Assessment, Closing the Literacy Gap
i-Ready Diagnostic is a diagnostic asessment. Because it is adaptive, it provides more valid and reliable data on students reading below grade level than do most state and most other standardized tests. The typical standardized test is written at grade...
Aug 29, 2025 | Assessment, Closing the Literacy Gap
According to the results of the latest NAEP reading assessment, there was a drop of 2 points in the average performance of both fourth and eighth graders when compared with 2022 test results. According to Harvard psychometrician Andrew Ho, each point on the scale is...
Aug 26, 2025 | Closing the Literacy Gap
Despite extensive efforts by educators, reading achievement nation-wide lags behind pre-pandemic levels. A study that included nearly 12 million students who took the i-Ready Diagnostic for Reading assessment during the 2024-2025 school year revealed that fewer...