Shamokin Area School District began using Study Island to improve the performance of middle school students receiving special education services and then expanded the implementation to provide standards-based instruction, practice, and assessment to students in grades 3-11. From 2009 to 2010, the percentage of middle school special education students scoring at the Proficient level in math on the Pennsylvania System of School Assessment (PSSA) jumped from 38.8 percent to 62.5 percent. In 2010, for the second year in a row, the district made Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP) across all areas of the PSSA.

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