Exact Path Growth Led to Improved Achievement in Texas
Texas students who used Exact Path Growth earned higher STAAR math and reading scores on average, and the more they used it, the better they achieved
What did we find?
Third-party researchers compared the end-of-year reading scores on Texas’s STAAR assessment between 6th-8th students who used Exact Path Growth to similar students who did not use Exact Path. Among Exact Path users in 4th-8th grade, they examined whether STAAR results tended to improve for students who used Exact Path Growth more often.
Continuing a history of positive results
These findings expand existing research on the positive impact of Exact Path Growth. Our previous study of Texas students showed that using Exact Path Growth was associated with significantly improved performance on the formative NWEA MAP assessment. With these new results, these trends can also be directly applied to Texas’s state assessment, giving school leaders confidence that Exact Path is an effective tool for accelerating learning and improving performance on STAAR.
Texas-sized growth on STAAR
This third-party study provides new evidence that students who use Exact Path Growth tend to learn more over the course of a school year than those who do not, and the more students used it, the better they did.
This research contained several sub-studies. Two of these studies met ESSA Level III (Promising Evidence) criteria, and one met ESSA Level II (Moderate Evidence) criteria, as defined by the Every Student Succeeds Act.
The program behind the results
Learn more about Exact Path, an IMRA-approved program with diagnostics predictive of STAAR results and proven outcomes for Texas students.