In Partnership with Johns Hopkins University, CAPIT Conducted a Research Study to Evaluate the Effectiveness of CAPIT Reading.
The results are clear: students who use CAPIT Reading show meaningful improvement in key literacy skills and outperform their peers on state literacy assessments.
District At-A-Glance
TK-12 District in Southern California
Total Schools: 23
Total Students: 21,500
Minority Representation: 80% (predominantly Hispanic)
The Study
Johns Hopkins University's Center for Research and Reform in Education (JHU CRRE) conducted the study to evaluate the effectiveness of the CAPIT Reading Curriculum on student reading achievement during the 2022-2023 school year. and teacher perceptions. The study included approximately 4,000 students and 165 teachers from elementary schools in Southern California. Student achievement was measured using the Renaissance Star Early Literacy Assessment, while teacher perceptions were gauged through a mixed-method survey. The study utilized both an "intent to treat" model and a "treatment on the treated" model to analyze the impact of the curriculum.
The Results
Findings indicated that CAPIT students made significant progress in early literacy development, with notable gains in sentence-level comprehension (+9.62 scale points), structural analysis (+9.56 scale points), and paragraph-level comprehension (+9.43 scale points). At the subdomain level, the largest gains were in compound words (+10.02 scale points), phoneme segmentation (+9.88 scale points), and contractions (+9.84 scale points).
Overall, CAPIT students outperformed their peers in seven out of eight literacy domains assessed by the Renaissance Star Early Literacy Assessment.
The CAPIT Difference
CAPIT Reading’s focus on student learning significantly boosts student literacy test scores. Schedule a time to meet us and learn how CAPIT can benefit your students.
