WWC rates Achieve3000® as having potentially positive effects on comprehension and general literacy achievement for adolescent readers¶

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Evidence · 1 study · review r3 · q3
Currency · newest study 2018 · not yet checked against its sources · not reviewed by a person

Subclaims¶

q3 i? WWC's systematic review rates Achieve3000® as having potentially positive effects on comprehension and general literacy achievement for adolescent readers, with medium to large extent of evidence. → What Works Clearinghouse 2018

Evidence¶

What Works Clearinghouse 2018¶

What Works Clearinghouse, Institute of Education Sciences, U.S. Department of Education. (2018). Adolescent Literacy intervention report: Achieve3000®. https://whatworks.ed.gov

q3 · i? · review · r3

Systematic review using WWC Procedures and Standards Handbook (version 3.0) of three studies meeting group design standards with reservations, covering about 32,266 students in grades 2–8; the report concludes "potentially positive effects" on both domains.

"Achieve3000® had potentially positive effects on comprehension and general literacy achievement for adolescent readers."

Discussion¶

Related Claims¶

• General literacy achievement domain: one statistically significant positive effect and one indeterminate effect yield a potentially positive rating — a narrower finding that bears on this claim
• Achieve3000 shows moderate ESSA evidence of positive effects on reading fluency — related
• Across three studies of Achieve3000 (35,070 students), the average effect size was 0.00 — related
• One small evaluation of Achieve3000 found positive effects on the SRI but not Terra Nova (average effect size +0.16) — related