State Impact Research for Michigan

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

In Michigan, 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 Michigan Student Test of Educational Progress (M-STEP), Curriculum Associates evaluated M-STEP scores and proficiency levels for 30,091 students in Grades 3–7 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.

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