The District-Wide Effectiveness of the Achieve3000 Program: A Quasi-Experimental Study
Borman, Geoffrey D.; Park, So Jung; Min, Sookweon (2015). Retrieved from: https://eric.ed.gov/?id=ED558845
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examining9,527Students, grades4-8
Achieve3000® Intervention Report - Adolescent Literacy
Review Details
Reviewed: February 2018
- Quasi-Experimental Design
- Meets WWC standards with reservations because it uses a quasi-experimental design in which the analytic intervention and comparison groups satisfy the baseline equivalence requirement.
This review may not reflect the full body of research evidence for this intervention.
Evidence Tier rating based solely on this study. This intervention may achieve a higher tier when combined with the full body of evidence.
Please see the WWC summary of evidence for Achieve3000®.
Findings
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Outcome measure |
Comparison | Period | Sample |
Intervention mean |
Comparison mean |
Significant? |
Improvement index |
Evidence tier |
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California Standards Test English Language Arts (CST-ELA) |
Achieve3000® vs. Business as usual |
1 Year |
Grades 4-8;
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379.71 |
377.36 |
Yes |
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California Standards Test English Language Arts (CST-ELA) |
Achieve3000® vs. Business as usual |
1 Year |
Grade 7;
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402.83 |
384.88 |
Yes |
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California Standards Test English Language Arts (CST-ELA) |
Achieve3000® vs. Business as usual |
1 Year |
Grade 8;
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382.49 |
374.35 |
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California Standards Test English Language Arts (CST-ELA) |
Achieve3000® vs. Business as usual |
1 Year |
Grade 4;
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369.45 |
363.49 |
Yes |
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California Standards Test English Language Arts (CST-ELA) |
Achieve3000® vs. Business as usual |
1 Year |
Grade 5;
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389.50 |
388.82 |
No |
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California Standards Test English Language Arts (CST-ELA) |
Achieve3000® vs. Business as usual |
1 Year |
Grade 6;
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378.19 |
379.21 |
No |
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Evidence Tier rating based solely on this study. This intervention may achieve a higher tier when combined with the full body of evidence.
Sample Characteristics
Characteristics of study sample as reported by study author.
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Ethnicity Hispanic 69% Not Hispanic or Latino 31%
Study Details
Setting
The study was conducted in the Chula Vista school district in California.
Study sample
This study examined the effects of Achieve3000® in 16 schools in the Chula Vista school district and used demographically similar schools in the same school district as a comparison group. The study took place over one school year (2011–12) and included students in grades 4–8. The authors matched Achieve3000® students and comparison students on achievement measures and demographics. The study participants were 69% Hispanic, 14% Asian, 12% White, and 3% African-American. About 30% of students were English learners. About 49% of the study participants received free or reduced-price lunch, and females made up 51% of the sample. The analytic sample included 9,527 students: 1,957 students were in the Achieve3000® group, and 7,570 students were in the comparison group.
Intervention Group
Intervention students received the Achieve3000® program over one school year. Most intervention students completed, on average, one or two Achieve3000® activities per week. The Achieve3000® intervention was used to supplement a standard core English language arts curriculum. The authors did not identify which core curriculum was used or provide any other information about the implementation of the Achieve3000® intervention.
Comparison Group
The comparison students did not have access to the Achieve3000® program. They received English language arts instruction as usual.
Support for implementation
Schools implementing Achieve3000® purchased Professional Learning Services along with the programs. These services included 1–3 days per year of on-site support by trainers, including training for teachers new to the school, familiarizing returning teachers with upgrades to the program, one-on-one consulting with teachers, and modeling of best practices.
Achieve3000® Intervention Report - Beginning Reading
Review Details
Reviewed: July 2017
- The study is ineligible for review because it does not use a sample aligned with the protocol.
This review may not reflect the full body of research evidence for this intervention.
Evidence Tier rating based solely on this study. This intervention may achieve a higher tier when combined with the full body of evidence.
Please see the WWC summary of evidence for Achieve3000®.
Findings
Evidence Tier rating based solely on this study. This intervention may achieve a higher tier when combined with the full body of evidence.
Sample Characteristics
Study sample characteristics were not reported.An indicator of the effect of the intervention, the improvement index can be interpreted as the expected change in percentile rank for an average comparison group student if that student had received the intervention.
For more, please see the WWC Glossary entry for improvement index.
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