Results
AppleTree uses the highest quality instructional assessments available today to measure student progress in order to ensure we are meeting the needs of all of our students. Assessment of student progress informs our implementation of a Response to Intervention (“RTI”) instructional program and allows us to to meet the needs of children who do not make expected progress towards achieving key indicators of readiness despite receiving coherent, intentional instruction. Our understanding and utilization of assessment data to inform our RTI program has led to impressive results:
Data demonstrate that children in AppleTree’s program gain an average of 18 standard score points in two years on nationally normed measures of vocabulary (a gain of 4 points is considered significant) and leave having mastered key foundational early literacy content that is predictive of later reading achievement. Additionally, AppleTree helps children develop school-ready behaviors such as attending, cooperation and self-regulation. More than 95% of all children leave AppleTree scoring within the normal range on a normed measure of student function.
