i-Ready Growth Tracker

What This Growth Tracker Measures

The tracker subtracts the Fall score from the most recent score you enter for the same subject. It also looks up each result against the official norms for its grade and testing season. Missing scores stay blank rather than becoming predictions.

Typical Growth and Stretch Growth: What They Mean

Typical Growth

Typical Growth describes the average annual growth of students in the same grade who start at a similar placement level. It is a comparison-based growth target, not the number of points every student must gain to reach grade level.

Stretch Growth

Stretch Growth is an ambitious, attainable individual growth target intended to put a student on a path toward proficiency. Reaching proficiency may take more than one year. Use the target in the school report; do not estimate it as a fixed multiple of Typical Growth.

A change in score is not an official growth target. Curriculum Associates' Typical Growth and Stretch Growth measures account for a student's starting placement. A difference between two national medians, or a fixed multiple of that difference, cannot replace those individual targets.

Read the goals in the school report. The publisher's assessment resources and the publisher-submitted NCII growth profile explain its growth model; our methodology explains this tool's limits.

How to Read Growth Toward a Reported Goal

Hypothetical example only: suppose a school report gives a baseline score of 400, a later score of 415, an annual Typical Growth goal of 30 points, and a Stretch Growth goal of 50 points. The measured gain is 15 points: 50% of the Typical Growth goal (15 ÷ 30) and 30% of the Stretch Growth goal (15 ÷ 50). These invented numbers are not recommended targets for any grade or student.

Use the same subject, school year, and baseline assessment used to set the goals in the actual report. A percentage of a goal is not a national percentile or proof of grade-level proficiency. It also does not, by itself, show whether a student is on pace to meet a goal; review timing and progress with the teacher. This tracker reports actual changes and does not calculate these individual goals or predict an end-of-year score.

Questions to Ask About Progress

Ask which skills improved, which need support, and how classroom work compares with the assessment. A lower score deserves context, not an automatic diagnosis. A higher score does not on its own prove grade-level proficiency, course readiness, or success on another test.

Compare only results from the same subject. Check that each score uses the correct enrolled grade, testing season, and norm edition. This tracker is designed for scores within one school year.