© 2025 Vista Higher Learning Reading and Writing Growth with Vista’s Engage 29 Overall, the findings show that the program provides a reliable, evidence-based approach to strengthening English reading and writing skills for diverse high school learners. Evidence Summary • Consistent Growth: Students using Engage showed substantial improvement in reading and writing skills across the school year. • Equitable Impact: Engage supported learning e ectively for all student groups, across sex or ethnicity. • Strong Results for At-Risk Students: Students who began the year with the lowest proficiency levels made the greatest gains, especially in writing. Reading and Writing Growth from the Beginning to the End of the School Year Multilingual learners receiving instruction with Engage demonstrated steady, measurable growth in both reading and writing from pre-instruction to post-instruction assessments. • Reading: E ect size=.37 • Writing: E ect size=.54 Students identified as academically at risk showed even greater gains than the total student group. Program instruction helped these students make significant progress toward English proficiency, closing part of the gap between them and their more proficient peers. • Reading: E ect size=.56 • Writing: E ect size=.81 In short, these findings show that Engage gives teachers a powerful, research-supported way to help multilingual learners grow in reading and writing confidence and achievement.
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