Research
Can MindPlay Reading impact student literacy achievement?
MindPlay partnered with LXD Research to conduct a correlational study to investigate the impact of MindPlay Reading on student literacy achievement scores over the 2021-2022 school year.
Analyses included MindPlay’s assessments (Signals), which estimate a student’s relative grade level, and MAP Growth, which provides an overall reading ability score called a Rasch unIT (RIT).
MindPlay initiated a third-party assessment (via LXD Research) of MindPlay Reading Coach's implementation in an Ohio school district during the 2021-2022 academic year.
Here's what we set out to answer:
In collaboration with LXD Research, MindPlay initiated a third-party assessment of MindPlay Reading Coach’s implementation within an Ohio school district during the 2021-2022 academic year with the goal to answer:
- After controlling for students’ prior literacy achievement, how was students’ time on MindPlay Reading Coach associated with their spring literacy achievement?
- What was the overall impact of MindPlay Reading Coach’s usage levels on students’ spring literacy achievement?
- How did reaching a critical minimum number of hours (60 hours or 20 minutes/day) impact literacy gains?
With over four decades of aiding schools and districts across the United States in achieving substantial advancements in reading, MindPlay Education stands as an endorsed reading intervention program nationwide.
Participants
Where: Dayton City Schools, Ohio
When: Fall 2021 - Spring 2022
15
Elementary Schools
3444 Students
Grades
2-6
Results
When implemented and used daily, MindPlay provides struggling learners with the targeted intervention they need to achieve the desired results.
Dayton Public Schools has faced long-standing challenges in supporting student reading. To address the needs of struggling readers lacking foundational skills, the district implemented MindPlay Reading Coach as part of its solution.
The findings show a positive correlation between progress in MindPlay Reading Coach and improved literacy skills, especially for students with higher usage. After controlling for beginning-of-year scores, these findings were robust across Grades 2-6. Given the statistically significant positive findings, this study meets the ESSA evidence requirements for Level II (Promising Evidence).
Two years of skill growth
32% of students in grades 2-6 using MindPlay, who were reading at a K-2 level, experienced at least two years of reading growth.
EOY MAP scores
Students who used MindPlay at least 20 minutes a day throughout the school year had higher RIT gains than the nationally normed sample.
RIT gains
For MindPlay users reading below their grade level at the beginning of the year, those reading at the K-2 grade level saw significantly higher MAP Growth RIT gains between Fall 2021 RIT scores and Spring 2022 RIT scores compared to students reading at the 3-5 grade level