Program Description

"It supports struggling readers, language learners, reading superstars, and every reader in class. SuccessMaker is the K-8 adaptive learning program that supplements your ELA/literacy instruction. While you’re working with small groups or individuals, SuccessMaker can work with your other students to provide guidance, remediation, fluency assessment, and independent practice – dynamically and interactively at their exact level."

Cost

Must contact publisher for pricing.

Intended Population

• Intervention

Grade

• Elementary School
• Middle School

Intended Group Size

• Small group

ELL/DLL

• Full

Multisensory Applications

• Unspecified

Computer-Based Delivery

• Partial

Scripted

• Instructor Scripted

Comprehensive or Skill Specific

• Skill Specific

Placement Tests

• Unspecified

Accelerated Learning

• Unspecified

Assessment to Monitor Skills Mastery

• Yes

Error Correction Built In

• Unspecified

Fidelity Measures Provided by Publisher

• Unspecified

Research Summary

One study that meets WWC group design standards without reservations reported findings in the comprehension domain. Gatti (2011) found that SuccessMaker® had statistically significant positive effects on the Overall Score, Passage Comprehension, and Sentence Comprehension subtests of the Group Reading Assessment and Diagnostic Evaluation (GRADE) for fifth- and seventh-grade students when compared to the regular English language arts program alone. The WWC could not confirm the statistical significance of these findings after adjusting of the clustering of students within classrooms. The average effect size across the two grades on the GRADE overall score was not large enough to be considered substantively important, according to WWC criteria. The WWC characterizes these study findings as an indeterminate effect. Thus, for the comprehension domain, one study showed indeterminate effects. This results in a rating of no discernible effects, with a small extent of evidence.

Study Citations

Underwood, J. D. M. (2000). A comparison of two types of computer support for reading development. Journal of Research in Reading, 23(2), 136-148.

Gatti, G. (2011). Pearson SuccessMaker reading efficacy study 2010–11 final report. Pittsburgh, PA: Gatti Evaluation, Inc.

What Works Clearinghouse (WWC) Report

• No discernible effects

Evidence Base (ESSA)

• Qualifying studies found no significant positive outcomes

Evidence-Based Practice (EBP)

• Mixed evidence