{"product_id":"2940149075348","title":"A Multisite Cluster Randomized Trial of the Effects of CompassLearning Odyssey\u0026#x00AE; Math on the Math Achievement of Selected Grade 4 Students in the Mid-Atlantic Region","description":"A major goal of U.S. education policymakers during the past two decades has been to improve math achievement (Faulkner et al. 2008). Toward this end, policymakers have passed legislation, formulated policies, raised standards, and redesigned assessments (MacCaffrey et al. 2001; Business Coalition for Education Reform 1998). The No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 emphasizes the importance of mathematics, among other areas, by requiring that all U.S. students be proficient in math by 2014, as measured by annual state-level assessments (NCLB 2009). Because the Regional Educational Laboratory (REL) Mid-Atlantic, in discussions with stakeholders, had identified the need to find innovative and effective approaches to improve math achievement as a priority and because Gonzalez et al. (2004) have shown that grade 4 is a critical point in the elementary school curriculum at which the United States is losing ground to other countries, REL Mid-Atlantic proposed to study promising approaches to mathematics instruction at the grade 4 level.\u003cbr\u003eIn an effort to identify instructional methods that might improve mathematics learning at this level when used in a variety of educational settings under typical conditions, the research team looked for promising, replicable practices that were being used broadly by teachers in U.S. schools, for which research showed promising results but had not been conducted using methodologies that can establish causal relationships.\u003cbr\u003eCompassLearning’s Odyssey® Math product met all of these criteria. Odyssey Math is marketed as a comprehensive mathematics instructional software product that can help math educators improve their instruction as either a core math curriculum or a partial substitute. Compass Learning’s Odyssey®, which includes Odyssey Math, is used with 3 million students in 5,000 schools throughout the United States. Since the software was released, more than 11 million students have used it. The developer also reports that 693 schools in the Mid-Atlantic Region were using the Odyssey software in 2005.","brand":"ReadCycle","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47075462021360,"sku":"2940149075348","price":2.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940149075348_p0.jpg?v=1763711721","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940149075348","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}