Orchard Software

"Our Anytime School program, which served as a learning intervention for our pupils, experienced additional support by utilizing the Orchard Math in our computer lab. Staff members utilized Orchard Math with our struggling students and felt it was a very successful too/...Students were able to reinforce the Math concepts and teachers noticed greater success in learning."
-Oak Hill School (Escondido California)

Orchard Helps Failing Students Succeed

Reading Test As part of a Reading Intervention Program, 284 third- and fourth-grade students in the Ashtabula Area City Schools of Northeast Ohio who failed the Ohio Reading Tests in the fall of 2003 spent at least 30 minutes per week on computer-assigned Orchard activities. After using Orchard for fewer than three months, 44% of these students successfully passed the tests on re-administration in March of 2004. In addition, results of an attitudinal survey indicated that teachers believed that Orchard had a positive impact on their students' academic achievement.

Orchard Software Positively Impacts Student Achievement

Second-grade Stanford Achievement Test - Ninth Edition (SAT 9) math scores at Lang Ranch Elementary School in Thousand Oaks, California showed significant gains after a one-year exposure to Orchard Math software. The average second-grade national percentile score in math for 2001 (before Orchard) was 80.The average second-grade national percentile score in math for 2002 (after Orchard) was 88, representing a 10'% gain.

District Works Towards Proficiency Using Orchard Software

After implementing Orchard Software into their curriculum, scores on the Texas Assessment of Knowledge and Skills Test for Avalon Independent School District (ofAvalon,Texas) rose dramatically. In the area of English Language Arts, students moved from a level of 73% proficiency to a level of 90% proficiency; in the area of Mathematics, students moved from a level of 50% proficiency to a level of 76% proficiency. This rise in test scores for all subgroups brought the district from a status of Low Performing to an eligibility status of Recognized (rating pending Fall 2004 distribution). In addition to having students work on customized Orchard learning plans for two hours per week, teachers at the school used Orchard for additional benchmarking information to periodically evaluate students' areas of weakness. In this way, they were able to supplement skill instruction to ensure student success.

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