What is i-Ready?
There has been a lot of confusion about iReady. Curriculum Associates, our reseller until 12/31/2012, created iReady to compete with DORA and DOMA. However, iReady originated as a test-prep product and then expanded into additional versions including a "diagnostic" version. We do not believe it is a true diagnostic like DORA and DOMA. Our assessments were developed as formative diagnostic measures, with the primary objective of informing teacher decisions about individual students and classes. Therefore, be wary of iReady marketing collateral and evaluate it carefully if your school is considering using it.
Unfortunately, Curriculum Associates has also published multiple promotional pieces that misrepresent their relationship with DORA and DOMA. In these pieces, they imply that they own DORA and DOMA and are the makers of these great products. They say or imply that iReady is the upgrade to DORA and DOMA. Make no mistake: these statements are not true! DORA and DOMA were developed by Let's Go Learn under the direction of our co-founder, Dr. Rick McCallum of U.C. Berkeley. Our assessments have been validated at the sub-test level which is critical for a diagnostic tool.
i-Ready is a separate product published by Curriculum Associates. DORA and DOMA were developed by Let's Go Learn and are currently sold both by Curriculum Associates and directly by Let's Go Learn.
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Sandy, Curriculum Associates has a great 100% money back guarantee. If you don’t like iReady or any product of theirs, they will give you a full refund. I’d also recommend that you check with our customer service. It is possible you still have a valid license of DORA/DOMA. Thanks for the compliments on DORA and DOMA. We love them too!
I am so disappointed. My school bought iReady because we were told it was the new version of DORA and DOMA. I loved the DORA and DOMA reports. We use it for RtI and evaluating our students. What can I do if I want to get DORA and DOMA back?
We use dora and doma extensively in our title I and SPED program and I can verify that they are definitely much stronger products! My principal asked me last month to review iready and I was not impressed. It has some nice reports but the results were not accurate at all. The assessments were surprisingly short. In reading my students only did a few items in each skill area which probably is why it is so inaccurate. As far as iready being an upgrade to dora/doma, my principal told me iready was a new product. So she seemed to understand that it was made by a different company.
iReady is not a replacement for DORA or DOMA. Let’s Go Learn designed DORA and DOMA to be highly diagnostic. They were designed this way from the beginning, to inform instruction, like a reading or math specialist would. Our assessments take 30 to 60+ minutes to administer, depending on the test-taker and how our adaptive logic adjusts to their responses. iReady has multiple versions, one of which CA says is diagnostic. Unfortunately, in the educational market, “diagnostic” is a term often used loosely. Almost every single benchmark test or test-prep company says their tests are diagnostic. iReady has some nice looking reports that breakout by sub-tests like DORA/DOMA. However, whether it actually is accurate and stands up to test-retest reliability remains to be seen. In my biased opinion, DORA and DOMA are leaps and bounds above iReady Diagnostic. That is why we have administered over 4 million assessments to date. It works and people like it!
The local Curriculum Associates rep said that DORA and DOMA were being upgraded to iReady. But he stated iReady was a diagnostic like DORA/DOMA. Can you comment on this?