Preliminary Analysis of School of One Impact on Middle School Math Achievement

Educators use data in different ways – to understand achievement levels of an incoming class, to identify areas of the curriculum that need better coverage, or to individualize instruction and student learning. In the 2010-2011 academic year, three middle schools began piloting School of One (SO1), a program that leverages data to individualize instruction, in addition to the standard school-wide math curriculum.  Although the first year of school-wide implementation is too early to make definitive claims about the impact of SO1 on student achievement, the Research Alliance designed a quasi-experimental study to assess changes in students’ mathematics achievement in both SO1 and non-SO1 schools during this year. The goal of the study is to examine what, if any, value the SO1 program adds over and above the standard curriculum and instructional program. These findings provide the SO1 leadership with critical information about the initial SO1 school-wide implementation and its capacity to improve student mathematics achievement.

The Fund for Public Schools funded this project.

Key Staff

James Kemple, Thomas Gold,  Micha Segeritz, Rachel Cole

Publications

Final report anticipated October 2011.