I’d like to get feedback on your use of the free version of Readtheory.org. Does it help, and does it pass the privacy requirements that school districts have in place to protect students’ information?

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I used ReadTheory for several years when I taught English I/II and before NC ditched the NC Final Exams (NCFE) for English III/IV.

Generally speaking, it's a good platform and gives you, the teacher, a lot of relevant data on student mastery. The trick is making sure that students take it seriously enough to provide authentic data.

What I started doing after a few issues was counting the grades in the grade book. For the first grading period (6 weeks), students had to complete 5 RT quizzes every two weeks (15 total for the grading period). Every two weeks, I would average the 5 scores and count it as a quiz grade, so they got three RT quiz grades each grading period.

For my juniors and seniors (again, when the NCFE was still in use), I would bump the number of quizzes up each grading period - seven every couple of weeks in the second grading period and nine every couple of weeks in the third.

It also helped that I gave them time to work on the quizzes a couple of times per week (15-20 minutes in a class period).

Good luck to you and your kids!

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