Research

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Achieve3000 is the leading literacy platform in today’s blended learning programs, with cloud-based solutions that serve nearly three million students worldwide. Based on decades of scientific research, Achieve3000’s patented and proven differentiated instruction for grades PreK-12 to university and adult education reaches all students at their individual reading levels to accelerate learning, improve high-stakes test performance, and drive university and career success.

Seventy-five percent of students in Aldine, Texas are identified as at-risk for dropping out of school according to state criteria. Despite challenges, they nearly tripled the number of RtI students passing the STAAR in one year. See their results here.

In 2016 and 2017, Digital Promise conducted an independent third-party research study of the impact of Achieve3000 usage on the reading outcomes of English language learners in Cajon Valley Union School District in California. Cajon Valley USD piloted Achieve3000 during the 2016- 2017 school year with EL students at five elementary and middle schools. The goal of the pilot was to improve reading outcomes for EL students at risk of becoming long-term ELs (LTELs). A total of 521 students, 99 percent of whom do not speak English at home, and 13 teachers participated. This report summarizes the findings.

Achieve3000’s brand-new rapid intervention solution, Achieve Intensive, was piloted as part of a large urban school district’s summer program during the summer of 2016 for students in 3rd, 6th and 8th grades. This summer program specifically targeted students who performed in the bottom quarter on the state’s summative assessment – below grade- level learners who were especially at risk for summer reading loss.

In January 2014, Achieve3000 and Carlsbad Unified School District started a partnership in which the Achieve3000 Literacy platform would be available to the students for literacy acceleration. After several successful years of usage, Carlsbad and Achieve3000 initiated a study to assess the impact Achieve3000 Literacy has had on student performance on the California Assessment of Student Performance and Progress (CAASPP) test.

Eight hundred and twenty-eight (828) students and 20 teachers, in sixthand seventh-grade classrooms in three states participated in the study. Students in classrooms using Achieve3000 Math showed significantly greater improvement in mathematics skills than comparable students in classrooms that did not use Achieve3000 Math. Achieve3000 Math users in sixth-grade showed 40% more growth than expected and seventhgrade Achieve3000 Math users showed 66% more growth than expected. Teachers reported that the Achieve3000 Math application is an effective tool for delivering mathematics instruction and both teachers and students were observed to use the application as prescribed.

The focus of this study was on students who used both Actively Learn and Achieve3000 Literacy during the 2019-2020 school year. The benefit of this approach was that the Lexile® reading measure (see below) from Achieve3000 Literacy could be used as a measure of general reading ability. Student records from the Actively Learn and Achieve3000 Literacy databases were merged to produce an analytical file containing 17,285 individual student records. Data were then analyzed to examine the relationship between Actively Learn usage and improvements in reading ability.

Following the 2017-2018 school year, Achieve3000 conducted an analysis of Bay District Schools students’ performance on the NWEA MAP (Grades K-2) and the Florida State Assessment for English language arts (FSA ELA) (Grades 4-10) tests in relation to students’ usage of Smarty Ants and Achieve3000 Literacy during the 2017-2018 school year.