State Impact Research for Colorado

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

In Colorado, 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 Colorado Measures of Academic Success (CMAS), Curriculum Associates evaluated CMAS scores and proficiency levels for 45,824 students in Grades 3–8 across 14 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.

This study was designed to meet the criteria for ESSA Tier 3 evidence.