JFYNet Proven Results
JFYNet has worked in middle and high schools throughout Massachusetts, providing math and science instruction to more than 40,000 students. JFYNet students are always assigned by the school, not selected by JFYNet. In most cases, schools use their JFYNet classes to serve the most at-risk students. Working in high-need districts with the most challenging students, we have achieved consistent, measurable performance gains.
- In 2009 and 2010 we used the state’s new Growth Model to track student progress measured by Student Growth Percentile from one MCAS test to the next. In 23 out of 26 reporting classes, JFYNet students showed more growth than non-JFYNet students.
- In 2008 we used scatter plots to track correlations between JFYNet use and MCAS performance. We found statistically significant correlations between modules mastered and MCAS scores at every grade level.
In 2005 we engaged the Data Analysis and Strategic Planning Project, an evaluation team based at Boston College, to expand our analysis to encompass MCAS performance levels and subgroups. We found that the performance advantage of JFYNet students was accentuated in subgroups. We also found that some schools were using JFYNet to increase their proficient and advanced rates as well as to lower their failure rates. At Malden High School in the five testing cycles 2006 through 2010, JFYNet students out-performed non-JFYNet students in every subgroup on every test. In 2010, the JFYNet failure rate was 0% in all subgroups.
- From 2002 to 2005, we compared MCAS passing rates of JFYNet students with other students in the same grade who were not in the JFYNet program. There were 27 schools that reported data. In every case, JFYNet students outperformed non-JFYNet students. The discrepancy was especially significant because the students who were assigned to JFYNet (assignments were made by the school, not by JFYNet) were the at-risk students; so the result showed that at-risk students in JFYNet were out-performing higher-level students.
