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Question Does consistent use of EasyTech enhance student performance on Arizona’s online standardized test, AZMerit? Participants A sample of third- and fifth-grade students in the Flagstaff Unified School District Methodology Students were categorized as either frequent or infrequent users of EasyTech based on the number of curriculum items launched in the 2015-2016 school year. Student performance was then compared based on this attribute. The categories included: 0-4 items launched, 5-9 items launched, 10-14 items launched, 15-20 items launched, more than 20 items launched. Results Students who were consistent users of EasyTech performed 4.3 times higher than their non-consistent counterparts. ABOUT LEARNING.COM Learning.com’s digital literacy curriculum enables schools to develop students’ technology skills throughout core instruction. [email protected] 800.580.4640 learning.com Flagstaff Unified School District (FUSD) has been a Learning.com customer for 12 years. In the 2015-16 school year, at the request of Mary Knight, Director of Technology, Learning.com partnered with FUSD to validate the correlation of students’ digital literacy skills with Arizona’s Measurement of Educational Readiness to Inform Teaching (AZMerit). Consistent users of EasyTech performed 4.3 X HIGHER Improving Online Assessment Scores with EasyTech FLAGSTAFF UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT (FUSD)

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Page 1: Learning.com - FLAGSTAFF UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT (FUSD) Improving Online Assessment … · 2019. 8. 6. · the 2015-16 school year, at the request of Mary Knight, Director of Technology,

Question Does consistent use of EasyTech enhance student performance on Arizona’s online standardized test, AZMerit?

ParticipantsA sample of third- and fifth-grade students in the Flagstaff Unified School District

MethodologyStudents were categorized as either frequent or infrequent users of EasyTech based on the number of curriculum items launched in the 2015-2016 school year. Student performance was then compared based on this attribute.

The categories included: 0-4 items launched, 5-9 items launched, 10-14 items launched, 15-20 items launched, more than 20 items launched.

ResultsStudents who were consistent users of EasyTech performed 4.3 times higher than their non-consistent counterparts.

ABOUT LEARNING.COMLearning.com’s digital literacy curriculum enables schools to develop students’ technology skills throughout core [email protected] • 800.580.4640 • learning.com

Flagstaff Unified School District (FUSD) has been a Learning.com customer for 12 years. In the 2015-16 school year, at the request of Mary Knight, Director of Technology, Learning.com partnered with FUSD to validate the correlation of students’ digital literacy skills with Arizona’s Measurement of Educational Readiness to Inform Teaching (AZMerit).

Consistent users of EasyTech performed

4.3X HIGHER

Improving Online Assessment Scores with EasyTech

FLAGSTAFF UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT (FUSD)