RISE/RISE UP STUDENTS MAKE SIGNIFICANT GAINS ON MAP GROWTH READING TEST
Chesterfield County School District Demographics:
White: 60% Black or African American: 31% Hispanic or Latino: 4% Asian: 1% Two or More Races: 4% Median Household Income: $41,937 Bachelor’s Degree or Higher: 11.6%
OVERVIEW Chesterfield County School District (CCSD) is a rural school district in northeastern South Carolina. Located approximately 80 miles northeast of Columbia, the district spans 806 square miles and serves 6,901 students across 16 schools. Roughly 75 percent of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. During the pandemic, CCSD students’ reading test scores declined significantly, and the district wanted to find a solution to help students get back on track. The district examined several reading interventions and decided to pilot RISE/RISE Up because of its targeted small-group instruction for reading comprehension, word study, phonics, and guided writing. The district implemented RISE/RISE Up with struggling first- to fourth-grade students in six schools. Students received 60 minutes of daily RISE/RISE Up instruction as part of their Tier 2 intervention program. To measure the influence of RISE/RISE Up on reading skills, Scholastic analyzed Measure of Academic Progress (MAP ® ) Growth Reading data from 149 RISE/RISE Up students who used the program during the 2021–2022 school year. RESULTS From fall 2021 to spring 2022, RISE/RISE Up students demonstrated significant gains on the MAP Growth Reading Test across all grade levels (see Figure 1). Students in Grade 1 made the largest improvements, improving from a pretest Rasch Unit (RIT) score of 149.75 to a posttest RIT score of 165.92, a statistically significant gain of 16.17 RIT points (p<.001). Data indicate that first-grade students exceeded the expected fall-to- spring RIT gain of 15.86 RIT points (as determined by the NWEA MAP Growth Reading 2020 normative sample).
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CHESTERFIELD RISE/RISE UP IMPACT STUDY
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