Study Island and NWEA™ Partner to Drive Student Success

Does your school or district use Measure of Academic Progress (MAP©) assessments?

Yes? Edmentum is excited to announce the launch of the Study Island NWEA™ MAP© Link! Study Island has partnered with the Northwest Evaluation Association (NWEA™) to offer a fully integrated solution that uses a student’s Measure of Academic Progress (MAP©) assessment results to create an individualized learning path, delivered through the Study Island program. Study Island and NWEA customers can easily pinpoint academic strengths and weaknesses through their NWEA MAP test results, and then automatically target those areas with Study Island’s rigorous, standards-based content. Each student will receive a unique learning path within Study Island based on their individual MAP Rasch unit (RIT) scores.

Why it works:
• Easily upload MAP RIT scores and target specific Study Island content based on those results
• Differentiate instruction with automatically generated individualized learning paths
• Monitor student progress with built-in reporting and immediate student feedback

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Study Island Recognized With Industry Awards

By Lauren Williams Tuesday, December 11, 2012 http://www.districtadministration.com/news/study-island-recognized-industry-awards


Edmentum™, a leading provider of online learning solutions, has been recognized for its Study Island learning solution in District Administration and Tech & Learning magazines’ annual awards. Study Island was included in the District Administration Readers’ Choice Top 100 Products of 2012 and received a Tech & Learning Award of Excellence in the Best Upgraded Product category. Study Island is a standards mastery and test-preparation program, specifically designed to help students master the content specified in state and Common Core standards.
“Students at more than 20,000 schools use our Study Island learning solution, and we are very honored it was recognized with these two awards,” said Andy Frost, vice president of product management for Edmentum. “Our number one priority is to support schools and students through our quality academic content, extensive teacher resources and engaging user experiences. We are pleased to be receiving these awards and will continue to enhance our products to meet the needs of the 21st century classroom."

District Administration is read by more than 73,000 K-12 school district leaders across the country and a record number of them participated in selecting the 2012 Top 100 Products winners. The Top 100 winners include a wide variety of products, such as software and hardware, products that will help build and secure districts, and those that will streamline a district’s ever-changing technology functions. The list also includes programs that will help improve learner reading, writing, science and math comprehension, as well as products that help evaluate and analyze their growth.

The Tech & Learning Best Upgraded Product category honors already-released products that have made significant enhancements and evolved with the changing technology to continue to offer the highest quality experiences for educators and students. Tech & Learning's Awards of Excellence program has been recognizing outstanding ed tech curriculum products for 30 years. It recognizes both the "best of the best" and creative new offerings that help educators in the business of teaching, training and managing with technology.

Edmentum, Inc. is a leading provider of online learning solutions designed to drive learner achievement for academic and career success. With more than 50 years of experience driving significant advances in the industry, Edmentum offers a wide variety of innovative solutions spanning a multitude of program areas to empower 21st century teaching and learning. For more information, visit www.edmentum.com.

Change Education with Edmentum: A new series on Edmentum products

This morning I was at the dentist. As I was sitting in the chair with my mouth wide open, the dentist and her assistant were talking about their new digital record-keeping system. As they talked (and I listened with my mouth open), the dentist said, “Some people just don’t like change.”


I’ve been thinking a lot lately about change. In addition to changing the name of three different companies this year, friends and colleagues of mine have changed jobs, job titles, and responsibilities. New business cards, new logos, new letterheads, new products. That’s a LOT of change. And while I can't argue with my dentist that some people don't like change, I can honestly say that I love it. For most of us at Edmentum, in fact, change is nothing new. All three companies that are now part of Edmentum have always embraced change. It’s in our corporate DNA. From our CEO to our instructional designers to our education consultants, we love change. We embrace it. And that makes us uniquely suited to help educators drive change as they create their 21st century classroom.

To say that Edmentum is redefining the 21st century classroom is no small thing, but we have tremendous confidence in educators' ability to drive change that increases student achievement. My job at Edmentum is to ensure that the products we build deliver on that promise. The promise that when you partner with us to implement an Edmentum online learning product, you can feel confident that you're going to see the kind of change in student achievement that you expect.

• When schools leverage Study Island for online standards practice, they see an improvement in standardized test scores.

• When reading specialists supplement their early reading program with Reading Eggs, they see measurable gains in literacy.

• When districts build an online Credit Recovery program with Plato Courseware, they see an increase in their graduation rate.

• When middle schools bolster their ESL program with ESL Reading Smart, they see a noticeable change in their students' confidence.

• When community colleges provide additional online resources to their developmental education learners through Edmentum Higher Ed, they see a significant lift in course completion and retention.

• When high school teachers personalize online learning with Edmentum Assessments, they see students engage in ways they never anticipated.

• When principals partner with Edmentum consultants for professional development, they see wonderful changes in online teaching and blended learning.

All of those changes add up to a whole new definition of the 21st century classroom. The 21st century classroom isn't even a physical classroom. It's made up of a wide variety of learning experiences in which students engage with educators, content, and other students at different times, in different places, and with all kinds of different devices. If that sounds different than your school today, there is probably change in your future. Did I mention that we love change at Edmentum?

Over the next several weeks, you'll see posts from several members of our product management team describing in more detail how Edmentum products help educators drive change as they create the new 21st century classroom.

by Andy Frost is the VP of Product Management at Edmentum.

From the Edmentum blog 12.6.12

Evidence of Effectiveness of Study Island, EducationCity, and Reading Eggs Learning Solutions on Student Achievement

This is a synopsis of a new research study (October 2012); email me if you want the complete study: pat.ryan@archlearning.com
Study at a Glance

• The study examines the impact of Study Island, EducationCity, and Reading Eggs on mathematics and reading achievement in 514 classrooms from 81 schools across 12 districts in eight states over a multiyear period.

• Results indicate that classrooms using Study Island, EducationCity, and Reading Eggs solutions experience growth in learning at a rate significantly higher than district and state averages.

• Overall, 77% of classes using at least one of these programs exhibited achievement gains from the prior year in math; 75% of classes realized gains in reading.

• Among classrooms that expanded their subscription to include an additional solution during the second study year, 90% of math and 85% of reading classes saw gains from the baseline year.

• Classrooms using Study Island, EducationCity, and Reading Eggs experienced academic growth gains up to 500% greater than the rate of district growth during the study period.

Conclusion

The research evidence documented in this study about Study Island, EducationCity, and Reading Eggs all points in the same direction: Students in classrooms using these solutions exhibit significantly greater achievement gains compared with overall district and state growth rates. Using these products in classrooms resulted in gains that were, on average, three times greater than district and state averages. For schools with the most acute instructional needs, the achievement gains were even more pronounced as product users in low-performing schools achieved rates of growth that were six times greater than nonusers within their district in math and four times greater in reading.

Schools that harnessed multiple learning solutions to target specific instructional skills in reading and mathematics evidenced the largest rates of growth in the study sample. In math, classes that bundled Study Island and EducationCity experienced growth that was seven times greater than the district average. Users who implemented various configurations of Study Island, EducationCity, and Reading Eggs experienced approximately double-digit proficiency rate increases in reading over one academic year.

Conversely, classes in schools that did not renew their product subscriptions experienced deep declines in proficiency rates in both math and reading, while overall district and state proficiency rates increased during the same period.