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When we say that Odyssey helps improve student achievement, we are speaking from experience. We base our curriculum on the best available research, and we also work with schools and districts to conduct studies and create reports on Odyssey program effectiveness. Some of our School Effectiveness Reports and case studies are available for download below.
Find School Effectiveness Reports and case studies by implementation. Click the title to download the full PDF.
Credit Recovery
- Level: Middle & High School
- Subject: Math & Honors Algebra
- Implementation Focus: District-wide student achievement, with a comprehensive approach designed to improve student state test scores and address middle and high school credit recovery, grade recovery, remediation, over-age intervention instruction, and advanced-placement curriculum needs.
- Level: Middle School
- Subject: Math & Honors Algebra & Reading/Language Arts
- Implementation Focus: Differentiated instruction, credit and grade recovery, advanced placement, and the graduation initiative, a program designed to identify potential dropout candidates and work to retain those students.
- Level: High School
- Subject: Math & Reading/Language Arts
- Implementation Focus: Credit recovery and skills recovery summer program to help students recover skills and credit in a way that enables them to progress at their own pace.
- NWEA
Intervention
Back to top - Level: High School
- Subject: Math
- Implementation Focus: Algebra and math fundamentals with differentiated and targeted instruction to “back fill” the gaps in students’ math skills and address individual student needs.
- Level: Middle School
- Subject: Reading/Language Arts
- Implementation Focus: Academic Support Program for at-risk students to provide after-school math and reading tutoring delivered in flexible models.
- Level: Middle & High School
- Subject: Math & Honors Algebra
- Implementation Focus: District-wide student achievement, with a comprehensive approach designed to improve student state test scores and address middle and high school credit recovery, grade recovery, remediation, over-age intervention instruction, and advanced-placement curriculum needs.
- Level: K–12
- Subject: Math & Reading/Language Arts
- Implementation Focus: District-wide middle school implementation and K–5 pilot focused on building the district’s Extended After-School (EAP) and Intervention programs. The district chose to adopt Odyssey as a Tier 2 Response to Intervention instructional software for mathematics and reading/language arts. Going forward, the district will also use the new Odyssey High School during support sessions for supplemental and remedial instruction, as well as for preparing students for the PSSA in both content areas.
- Level: Elementary
- Subject: Reading/Language Arts
- Implementation Focus: Summer School Pilot Program for 3rd Grade Intervention to help the district meet its goal of ensuring that “each student will meet or exceed state and national standards by demonstrating mastery of an individualized and challenging comprehensive curriculum.” Subsequently, Tulsa Independent School District expanded the implementation to an additional 13 schools, bringing the total number of schools using Odyssey to 17.
NWEA
Back to top - Level: Elementary
- Subject: Math & Reading/Language Arts
- Implementation Focus: Akron Elementary Charter School is a specialized, nonprofit, free charter school for children with ADHD and Asperger’s Disorder. The school applied for an Enhancing Education Through Technology (EETT) grant based on student performance on NWEA Measures of Academic Progress (MAP) assessments and in order to use CompassLearning Odyssey to incorporate technology into both the classroom and the lab.
- NWEA
- Level: Elementary & Middle School
- Subject: Math & Reading/Language Arts
- Implementation Focus: District-wide elementary and middle school implementation of software that enables teachers to differentiate instruction, is aligned to South Carolina state standards, and integrates the Northwest Evaluation Association’s Measures of Academic Progress (MAP) test results seamlessly into the management system.
- NWEA
- Level: Elementary & Middle School
- Subject: Math & Reading/Language Arts
- Implementation Focus: The goal of educators at MCPS is to prepare students for academically successful high school and college careers. MCPS administrators’ goal in implementing CompassLearning Odyssey as part of the classroom curriculum was to improve NWEA MAP scores in mathematics, reading, and language usage.
- NWEA
- Level: K–12
- Subject: Math & Reading/Language Arts
- Implementation Focus: Utilizing CompassLearning NWEA-aligned curriculum on a weekly basis during class for general education, special education and after-school programs, for small group learning centers or special education remediation, and as whole-class direct instruction lessons.
- NWEA
- Level: High School
- Subject: Math & Reading/Language Arts
- Implementation Focus: Credit recovery and skills recovery summer program to help students recover skills and credit in a way that enables them to progress at their own pace.
- NWEA
Special Education
Back to top - Level: Elementary
- Subject: Math & Reading/Language Arts
- Implementation Focus: Akron Elementary Charter School is a specialized, nonprofit, free charter school for children with ADHD and Asperger’s Disorder. The school applied for an Enhancing Education Through Technology (EETT) grant based on student performance on NWEA Measures of Academic Progress (MAP) assessments and in order to use CompassLearning Odyssey to incorporate technology into both the classroom and the lab.
- NWEA
- Level: Elementary & Middle School
- Subject: Math & Reading/Language Arts
- Implementation Focus: District-wide elementary and middle school implementation of software that enables teachers to differentiate instruction, is aligned to South Carolina state standards, and integrates the Northwest Evaluation Association’s Measures of Academic Progress (MAP) test results seamlessly into the management system.
- NWEA
Independent Research
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- Level: 5th Grade
- Subject: Math
- Implementation Focus: Doctoral dissertation that compares usage levels of CompassLearning Odyssey mathematics software among fifth-grade students to determine the relationship between usage and achievement. Results showed a significant relationship between CompassLearning Odyssey mathematics software and achievement as measured on the Pennsylvania System of School Assessment (PSSA). Read more here.
- Learn more about the study and its results (PDF).
- Download a flyer about this study.
Other
Back to top - Level: Elementary
- Subject: Math & Reading/Language Arts
- Implementation Focus: Akron Elementary Charter School is a specialized, nonprofit, free charter school for children with ADHD and Asperger’s Disorder. The school applied for an Enhancing Education Through Technology (EETT) grant based on student performance on NWEA Measures of Academic Progress (MAP) assessments and in order to use CompassLearning Odyssey to incorporate technology into both the classroom and the lab.
- NWEA
- Level: Elementary
- Subject: Math & Reading/Language Arts
- Implementation Focus: Enhance student achievement, supplement students’ class work, and keep them motivated and engaged through the use of differentiated instruction and technology, including large-group instruction with interactive whiteboards.
- Level: Elementary
- Subject: Math & Reading/Language Arts
- Implementation Focus: Pilot study independently designed by the district to evaluate CompassLearning Odyssey’s impact on the district’s efforts to improve student achievement.
- Level: Elementary
- Subject: ELL, Math, Reading/Language Arts, Science
- Implementation Focus: Incorporating technology into the curriculum for whole class instruction, remediation activities, and as a supplement to the classroom curriculum in addition to at-home use and summertime labs correlated to the curriculum.
- Level: Elementary
- Subject: Math & Reading/Language Arts
- Implementation Focus: Improve student performance on Georgia’s Criterion-Referenced Competency Tests (CRCT).
- Level: High School
- Subject: Math
- Implementation Focus: Algebra and math fundamentals with differentiated and targeted instruction to “back fill” the gaps in students’ math skills and address individual student needs.
- Level: Middle School
- Subject: Reading/Language Arts
- Implementation Focus: Academic Support Program for at-risk students to provide after-school math and reading tutoring delivered in flexible models.
- Level: Elementary & Middle School
- Subject: Math & Reading/Language Arts
- Implementation Focus: District-wide elementary and middle school implementation of software that enables teachers to differentiate instruction, is aligned to South Carolina state standards, and integrates the Northwest Evaluation Association’s Measures of Academic Progress (MAP) test results seamlessly into the management system.
- NWEA
- Level: Middle & High School
- Subject: Math & Honors Algebra
- Implementation Focus: District-wide student achievement, with a comprehensive approach designed to improve student state test scores and address middle and high school credit recovery, grade recovery, remediation, over-age intervention instruction, and advanced-placement curriculum needs.
- Level: Middle School
- Subject: Math & Honors Algebra & Reading/Language Arts
- Implementation Focus: Differentiated instruction, credit and grade recovery, advanced placement, and the graduation initiative, a program designed to identify potential dropout candidates and work to retain those students.
- Level: Elementary
- Subject: Math & Reading/Language Arts
- Implementation Focus: Teachers decided to apply for an EETT grant in order to receive funding to purchase CompassLearning’s Odyssey software with the goal of providing both instructional and technological resources so students would enjoy learning and consequently improve scores on standardized tests and classroom assessments.
- View complete independent evaluation report here
- Level: Elementary
- Subject: ELL, Math, & Reading/Language Arts
- Implementation Focus: Help improve students' academic achievement in reading, language arts, and mathematics on the Mississippi Comprehensive Test (MCT) through specific programs for K–6 students, English language learners, and high-performing students and an after-school program.
- Level: Elementary
- Subject: Math
- Implementation Focus: Provided students with 1:1 wireless laptops with comprehensive computer software and paper-based materials from CompassLearning structured by the teacher to align to the Pennsylvania mathematics standards, and replace the print-based textbook.
- Level: Elementary & Middle School
- Subject: Math & Reading/Language Arts
- Implementation Focus: The goal of educators at MCPS is to prepare students for academically successful high school and college careers. MCPS administrators’ goal in implementing CompassLearning Odyssey as part of the classroom curriculum was to improve NWEA MAP scores in mathematics, reading, and language usage.
- NWEA
- Level: Elementary
- Subject: Math & Reading/Language Arts
- Implementation Focus: Supplemental instruction in all schools, for targeted remediation with select students and for diagnostic and prescriptive use with specific students.
- Level: K–12
- Subject: Math & Reading/Language Arts
- Implementation Focus: District-wide middle school implementation and K–5 pilot focused on building the district’s Extended After-School (EAP) and Intervention programs. The district chose to adopt Odyssey as a Tier 2 Response to Intervention instructional software for mathematics and reading/language arts. Going forward, the district will also use the new Odyssey High School during support sessions for supplemental and remedial instruction, as well as for preparing students for the PSSA in both content areas.
- Level: K–12
- Subject: Math & Reading/Language Arts
- Implementation Focus: Utilizing CompassLearning NWEA-aligned curriculum on a weekly basis during class for general education, special education and after-school programs, for small group learning centers or special education remediation, and as whole-class direct instruction lessons.
- NWEA
- Level: Elementary
- Subject: Math & Reading/Language Arts
- Implementation Focus: Differentiated and targeted instruction for reading and math used by the participating schools in a variety of settings, including in the computer lab, as part of a center rotation in the classroom, paired with an interactive whiteboard for direct classroom instruction, and during extended-day or Saturday school.
- Level: Elementary
- Subject: Math & Reading/Language Arts
- Implementation Focus: Comprehensive School Reform (CSR) Program to assist the district with electronically aligning the district’s curriculum to state standards and enhance technology integration in the classroom.
- Level: Elementary
- Subject: Math & Reading/Language Arts
- Implementation Focus: Comprehensive School Reform (CSR) Program to assist the district with electronically aligning the district’s curriculum to state standards, and enhance technology integration in the classroom.
- Level: Elementary & Middle School
- Subject: Math & Reading/Language Arts
- Implementation Focus: Support the district’s primary aim of maximum student achievement by providing differentiated instruction designed to meet individual student needs.
- Level: Elementary
- Subject: Reading/Language Arts
- Implementation Focus: Summer School Pilot Program for 3rd Grade Intervention to help the district meet its goal of ensuring that “each student will meet or exceed state and national standards by demonstrating mastery of an individualized and challenging comprehensive curriculum.” Subsequently, Tulsa Independent School District expanded the implementation to an additional 13 schools, bringing the total number of schools using Odyssey to 17.
- Level: Elementary
- Subject: Math
- Implementation Focus: Attaining Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP) in mathematics at the targeted schools and an improvement in achievement on quarterly district and state assessments.
- Level: High School
- Subject: Math & Reading/Language Arts
- Implementation Focus: Credit recovery and skills recovery summer program to help students recover skills and credit in a way that enables them to progress at their own pace.
- NWEA
- Level: Elementary
- Subject: Math
- Implementation Focus: Improve mathematics skills in order to help increase and maintain mathematics performance on the state assessment, the Michigan Educational Assessment Program (MEAP).
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