State Focus Study for California

Published December 2024

How is using i-Ready Personalized Instruction with fidelity associated with state test performance?

In California, across all grades in both reading and mathematics, students who used i-Ready Personalized Instruction with fidelity demonstrated higher state test scores and were more likely to be proficient than students who did not use

i-Ready Personalized Instruction with fidelity.

To understand the association between the use of i-Ready Personalized Instruction and performance on the Smarter Balanced Assessments (SBA), Curriculum Associates evaluated SBA scores and proficiency levels for 150,573 students in Grades 3–8 across 49 school districts. These analyses examined the difference in SBA scores and proficiency rates between students who used i-Ready Personalized Instruction with fidelity and students using the program less consistently, accounting for fall performance.