State Focus Study for North Carolina
Overview
- Subject: Literacy, Mathematics
- State: North Carolina
- Grades: 3–8
- Topic: Academic Achievement
- Study Year: 2021–2022
- Program: i-Ready Personalized Instruction for Mathematics, i-Ready Personalized Instruction for Reading
- Test Alignment: North Carolina End-of-Grade Tests (EOG)
Published November 2024
How is using i-Ready Personalized Instruction with fidelity associated with state test performance?
In North Carolina, 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 North Carolina End-of-Grade Tests (EOG), Curriculum Associates evaluated EOG scores and proficiency levels for 39,442 students in Grades 3–8 across 11 school districts. These analyses examined the difference in state 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.