Program Description

"MaxScholar is a user-friendly K-12 software designed for at school or at home learning. Dive into interactive activities tailored for phonics, reading, and writing. Personalized lessons empower students to master literacy skills with ease and enjoyment." The program provides a software as well as workbooks and materials. The software includes a dashboard of the student's progress and guides students through each lesson. Workbooks and materials can be used with the software or on their own. The reading comprehension prep books materials 1-3 can be adapted for ELL students.

Cost

MaxScholar software at home pricing starts at $280. Contact publisher for pricing for maxscholar software at school. All workbooks are $30 each and $50 each for materials.

Intended Population

• Intensified intervention

Grade

• Elementary School
• Middle School
• High School

Intended Group Size

• Individual

ELL/DLL

• None

Multisensory Applications

• Yes

Computer-Based Delivery

• Partial

Scripted

• Instructor Scripted

Comprehensive or Skill Specific

• Skill Specific

Placement Tests

• Yes

Accelerated Learning

• Unspecified

Assessment to Monitor Skills Mastery

• Yes

Error Correction Built In

• Unspecified

Fidelity Measures Provided by Publisher

• Unspecified

Research Summary

No current research has been found on MaxScholar. However, the program uses an Orton-Gillingham approach, which has been studied. Research from a meta-analysis found that the Orton-Gillingham approach did not significantly improve outcomes like phonological awareness, phonics, fluency, spelling, vocabulary, and comprehension.

Study Citations

Stevens, E. A., Austin, C., Moore, C., Scammacca, N., Boucher, A. N., & Vaughn, S. (2021). Current state of the evidence: Examining the effects of Orton-Gillingham Reading Interventions for students with or at risk for word-level reading disabilities. Exceptional Children, 87(4), 397–417. https://doi.org/10.1177/0014402921993406.

Evidence-Based Practice (EBP)

• Insufficient evidence