Personalized Learning(s) from the Field™: A Report from the LEAP Innovations Pilot Network Cohort 2
Summary of Key Insights:
This report examines 14 Chicago schools participating in LEAP’s Pilot network program, which brings together schools looking to design and implement personalized learning.
It finds that students in the second Pilot Network cohort using a reading product, gained 13 additional percentile points above the comparison group on the national Northwest Evaluation Association (NWEA) literacy test.
Over the course of eighteen months, LEAP’s team of experts helps schools redesign their classroom model, implement the LEAP Learning Framework for Personalized Learning, select and implement high-quality technology to support, and test the impact. This study is based on the Pilot Network’s second cohort, which piloted during the 2015-16 school year.
Students in the cohort using a reading product gained an average of 2.94 test-score points on the NWEA test over the comparison group. The comparison group was created using data from other district and charter Chicago Public Schools from the same time period, and the analysis controlled for student characteristics such as grade, gender, race, free/reduced price lunch status, special education status, English language learner status, and prior test score. LEAP measured changes in students’ scores on NWEA Measures of Academic Progress (MAP) assessments taken before and after the model was implemented.