This is a review of i-Ready, to be sure, but it's hardly a "full" review. i-Ready is another one of those products that performs assessments with the objective of identifying a student's skill levels in different disciplines, all with the objective or providing personalized learning resource recommendations in subjects such as reading and math. What this review does not provide is any assessment of how well it performs this task. Even if the reviewer isn't assessing the product themselves (and why would they?) we should at least see some reference to evidence provided either by the company or (preferably) independent review. After all, even company-friendly car reviews will tell us about the vehicle's gas mileage, it's acceleration, and (ideally) ratings from Motor Trend or Car and Driver. Browsing the company's own research, for example, we find it is related to the Science of Reading program. Now what does that tell us? Let's demand more from our coverage of ed tech.
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