SpringMath Theory of Change

How SpringMath Works: The Research Behind Its Theory of Change

How does SpringMath improve math achievement? SpringMath is web-based guidance that helps teachers assess skills, deliver intervention, monitor progress, and adjust intervention every week. Its theory of change works in three steps:

• Active ingredients: Intervention content and tactics are matched to each student’s needs, and interventions are used correctly.
• Immediate effects: Students get higher-quality instruction, schools use resources more efficiently, and decisions about who needs help become more accurate.
• Year-end effect: Mathematics achievement improves.
  
  

Each link in this chain is backed by peer-reviewed research from Dr. Amanda VanDerHeyden and colleagues. That includes a meta-analysis showing that students learn more when instructional tactics match their skill level, a cost-effectiveness analysis of classwide math intervention, and a randomized evaluation of grade-wide math intervention.