The takeaway from his RCI is that he has not caught up. Instead, the gap is slowly widening between him and his peers. Because it is widening slowly, rather than rapidly, the RCI is not > 1.96 (the admittedly arbitrary figure for significance), but it is still quite a bit bigger in magnitude than 0, and, more importantly, it is negative. Whatever remediation he has been receiving for the past several years has not closed the gap, because if it had resolved his impediments to reading comprehension, his RCI would now be positive, indicating that he had acquired more effective tools for developing reading comprehension skills than the ones he had in 2011.
