Results Program Dosage
Interventionists and teachers input weekly RISE/Up activities between January and May 2023 in a log. Log data showed that students completed less than half of the expected weekly stations (Figure 1). Rather than completing between 8 and 10 stations a week, students only completed an average of 4.5. Considering that RISE was designed for four stations a day, every day, this implementation was approximately only one-quarter of the daily recommended dosage.
Figure 1. Program Usage from Teacher Logs, by Grade Level
Avg. Total Stations Completed
Avg. # of Station Cards Used
Avg. Stations per Week
Avg. Cycles per Week
Unique Skills Covered
Grade
# of Students
5
5.2
62 52 52 56 36
1.6
14 12 28 27 10
13 21 27 31 16
1 2 3 4 5
17 12 28
4.36 4.33 4.65 3.02
1.15 1.06 1.54
7
1.0
FastBridge CBM FastBridge CBMreading is an oral reading fluency assessment that measures students’ reading rate. During the assessment, students read aloud for one minute from grade- or instructional-level passages while the teacher marks any errors. The resulting score is the number of words read correctly per minute (WRCPM). A student’s reading rate details how automatically the student can recognize, decode, and understand each word. Beginning in January 2023, grades 1 to 5 interventionists in the study were asked to administer the FastBridge CBM assessment every two weeks for 18 weeks, except during the spring break week (i.e., Week 10) and during state testing (i.e., Weeks 15 to 18). LXD Research analyzed FastBridge CBMreading data from 258 students who took the assessment at least six times (45 RISE participants and 213 Comparison group participants) from Week 2 to Week 14 3 . The RISE/Up and comparison group WRCPM scores did not differ statistically from each other at the beginning of the intervention (i.e., at Week 2/3; t(256) = 0.97), indicating that they were similar at the start of the testing period. RISE/Up students showed significantly more growth in WRCPM than students in the comparison group by the end of the year (F(1, 5) = 3.3, p < .01, partial eta squared effect size = .06). While RISE/Up students gained an average of +21 words correct per minute, the comparison group only gained +7 WRCPM. RISE/Up students demonstrated fluency growth three times greater than those who did not use the program. These results are promising because the dosage was less than half of the intended usage (Figure 3). Figure 2. FastBridge Words Read Correctly per Minute (WRCPM) Scores, RISE/Up and Comparison Students Assessment Condition N Pre/Post-Mean (Change) SD
Occasion* Condition Interaction F Score
p-Value Partial-eta Squared Effect Size
FastBridge WRCPM
Comparison
213
83 - 90 (+7)
33.7 34.0*
F(1, 5) = 3.3
p = .002
.06
RISE/Up
45
88 - 109 (+21)
*Note: Pooled SD = 33.9
1 There was significant missingness in six of the 18 total weeks: Week 1 (73% missing), Week 10 (100% missing), and Weeks 15 to 18 (74% missing). Week 1 missingness was due to communication issues at launch, Week 10 was spring break, and Weeks 15 to 18 were interrupted by state testing. Therefore, Weeks 1, 10, and 15 to 18 were excluded from the analysis. In addition, the participants were asked to respond biweekly, so missingness at the individual level typically followed a biweekly pattern. Therefore, scores were averaged in two-week intervals (e.g., Weeks 2 and 3 were averaged, and Weeks 4 and 5 were averaged). This averaging resulted in a reduction to six occasions of measurement. After completing this method, missingness was reduced to an average of 16% across the six two-week intervals.
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