Impacts of Edmentum’s Exact Path on Student Reading Achievement

ESSA Level of Research: Tier II Moderate Evidence (Quasi-Experimental)

What Works Clearing House Standard: Meets WWC Group Design Standards with Reservations

Overall: Use of Exact Path lessons has a positive, statistically significant effect on growth from one test to the next.

The purpose of this study was to provide a rigorous estimate of the impact of Exact Path use on student achievement in Reading. Century Analytics, Inc. conducted a rigorous evaluation of Edmentum’s Exact Path to estimate the impact of Exact Path use on student achievement. The study compared diverse national samples of users and non-users that have been matched on prior scores - baseline equivalence.

Research Question: What is the impact of Exact Path usage between the Fall diagnostic and Winter diagnostic assessment on student reading achievement relative to students who do not use Exact Path?

Results of this study suggest that students who use Exact Path and complete at least eight lessons as assigned by Exact Path will make statistically significant gains in achievement relative to students who do not complete any Exact Path lessons.

Results suggest that Exact Path is targeting the skills that students need to develop in order to improve their reading achievement.