How to View Student Progress

Progress reports provide insights into your students’ performance on ReadTheory, including reading levels, quiz scores, Lexile data, and standards-based skills. They become available after a student completes the initial pretest and finishes at least one additional quiz. The pretest must be completed in a single sitting; if a student exits before finishing, they’ll be prompted to start over the next time they log in.

📑 Table of Contents

Viewing Student Progress
- For Individual Students
- For The Entire Class
Understanding Data
Standards-Based Skills
Knowledge Points
Resetting Student Progress
Related Articles & Resources

Viewing Student Progress

Viewing progress reports helps you track student growth, identify learning gaps, and personalize instruction based on real-time data.

To view reports:

For individual students:
- Go to the "My Students" page

- Select a Student Name

- Select "Student Progress" next to the student name
For the entire class:
- Go to the "My Classes" page
- Select Class Progress next to the class intended for data viewing

Each report includes reading and Lexile levels, completed quizzes and scores, performance on Common Core–aligned standards, and earned knowledge points and badges—providing a well-rounded picture of each student’s progress.

📌 Tip: Scores and data appear after the pretest and at least one quiz.

Understanding Data

Accessing and interpreting student data in ReadTheory helps you track performance, guide instruction, and monitor engagement.

Teachers can view all completed quizzes by clicking any quiz title in a student’s progress report to see their questions and answers. Students, however, can only see their last three quizzes to help prevent cheating—though their full scores and knowledge points still reflect their complete history.

To export data, first select a date range for the period you want:

Class reports
- Print: Opens a printable version of the current page
- XLS/CSV (Premium only): Exports all student data to a spreadsheet
Individual student reports
- Quiz history: Exports a list of that student’s completed quizzes
- Reports (School subscriptions only): Generates a parent-friendly report showing detailed student growth

These options help you track progress, share insights, and support parent communication.

📌 Tip: If a student’s data is missing, confirm they’ve completed the pretest and one quiz, are connected to your class, and aren’t using a duplicate account.

Standards-Based Skills

Each quiz measures key reading skills aligned to Common Core standards, helping you spot strengths and growth areas. These include:

Craft & Structure: Citing evidence, understanding main ideas
Key Ideas & Details: Vocabulary, author’s purpose, inferences
Integration of Knowledge: Tone, purpose, comparing texts

For a deeper breakdown, use the Curriculum Standards report—available on both Class and Individual Progress pages—to see how students are performing across specific ELA skill areas like text structure, literary elements, supporting details, and more. Click “See details for each student” in any report to view how students are doing in that specific area.

Knowledge Points

Knowledge Points (KPs) motivate students and provide a simple way to track progress on ReadTheory. They encourage consistent reading, thoughtful participation, and goal setting, making them great for personal or class incentives.

How students earn KPs:

+1 KP per correct answer
+3 KP for a correct challenge question
+15 KP for passing a quiz (70%+)
+15 KP bonus for a perfect score

Setting a goal (e.g., 100 KP = 3–5 quizzes) is a helpful way to structure assignments. While KPs don’t unlock features, they power progress badges and printable achievement certificates.

Progress Levels:
Students level up as they earn more KPs:

Orienteer – 45 KP
Tactician – 100 KP
Analyst – 160 KP
Innovator – 230 KP
Naturalist – 310 KP
Explorer – 400 KP
Optimist – 500 KP
Wayfarer – 625 KP
Ascendant – 800 KP
Chronology – 1000 KP
Decoder – 1250 KP
Academic – 1700 KP
Equilibrium – 2250 KP
Forerunner – 3000 KP
Prodigy – 4000 KP
Virtuoso – 5500 KP
Starling – 7500 KP
Rocketeer – 10,000 KP
Theorist – 15,000 KP

🎉 Celebrate student milestones with printable certificates.

Resetting Student Progress

If a student received help, is struggling with difficult texts, or just needs a fresh start, you can reset their progress to begin again from the pretest.

Go to the student’s individual progress report → click Reset Student Progress

This will delete all quiz history and restart the student at the pretest.
Free users: Knowledge Points (KPs) will remain.
Premium users: You’ll have the option to reset KPs during the reset.

You can also reset an entire class’s progress from the Class Progress page—great for new terms or when starting fresh with a whole group.