In our qualitative interviews, interventionists spoke highly of the quality of RISE materials and student engagement. While the original RISE research study conducted by the program creator used a one-hour, daily implementation with multiple instructors, this study examined a half-hour, daily implementation design with one instructor. These very diferent use cases, not surprisingly, yielded diferent results. LXD Research provided detailed recommendations for product enhancements based on the site visits and teachers' survey results, which are included in Appendix 9. Those recommendations include: - Adding materials for visual support, - Providing guidance for weaning of graphic organizers, - Connecting and using comprehension-focused academic language more explicitly, - Including more daily progress monitoring tools, and - Increasing the ability to input data online. Teachers explained that students made meaningful progress in their writing skills throughout the year, but unfortunately, the writing component of the FAST exam was not included during the 2022-2023 school year. Therefore, future studies should also include an analysis of writing outcomes. It is suggested that Scholastic conduct additional efcacy studies on RISE with implementations closer to a station-rotation model that leverages multiple instructors. When the research team tracked every student's intervention time, it was discovered that students only received an average of two days a week of 30-minute instruction, while fve days a week is closer to what most school districts require. Identifying a partner that provides intervention time closer to 2.5 hours a week would be important for the next study, which would be closer to the recommended 80 hours for the year that intervention students need to make meaningful gains (Torgeson, 2004). This partner could also contribute more students per grade to the study, particularly for Upper elementary (grades 4-5). Finally, identifying comparison groups for intervention products is more rigorous when it is clearer that the comparison group student would have been appropriate for the studied intervention. Detailed logs of the comparison groups’ instruction were not collected as part of this study, but observations revealed that teachers mixed and matched district-provided resources with materials they sourced themselves. This educational research challenge is complex and can be monitored earlier and with more efort in new studies.
LXD Research -RISE and RISE UP Winter 2022-Spring 2023 Report
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