A new independent national study of 100 high-utilizing PD 360 schools shows dramatic and statistically significant improvement in student achievement in both math and reading. In this study only schools that reported a high use of PD 360 were analyzed. When comparing these schools to their collective district benchmark from the prior year, students showed 72% greater improvement in reading (p<.001) and an amazing 399% greater improvement in math (p<.001). This study confirms that when teachers receive high quality and timely professional instruction their students’ test scores will improve. The charts below visually depict this strong growth.
Results broken out by elementary, middle and high school levels also confirm this strong and statistically significant growth in student achievement in schools with a high use of PD 360. Elementary schools results increased by 235% for Math and 74% for reading in the schools with high use of PD 360 compared to benchmark schools. In middle schools increases were 298% for math and 72% for reading. In high schools increases were 749% for math and 56% for reading (p<.0-01 for all four percentages).
"Statistically, the data clearly validates the impact of PD 360 on student performance and teacher efficacy. It seems appropriate that any school seeking to experience statistically significant gains would strongly consider these compelling data reflecting such a rigorous methodology,” said Dr. Steven H. Shaha, PhD, D.B.A. Dr. Shaha holds two masters’ degrees and a doctorate in Research Methods and Applied Statistics and in Business Administration, and has over 25 years of experience in organizational performance and data analysis. The author of two books and over 100 peer-reviewed publications, Dr. Shaha has worked with national, State, international and local education departments, as well as with over 200 organizations in the private sector.
Over 500,000 educators at over 12,000 schools in every state, and nearly all territories, and Canadian provinces use PD 360 to access hundreds of short, easy-to-use video segments that feature the leading experts and present real classroom, best-practice examples. Teachers and administrators are impressed by both the quality and content of PD 360’s library. In addition to its vast content library, PD 360 provides integrated follow-up tools, reflection activities, tracking, and collaboration and community discussion forums and file sharing to promote greater implementation of learning.
“This study validates the results we found with our initial research study on the impact of PD 360 on achievement,” said Chet Linton, CEO, School Improvement Network. “Educators should be especially excited with the large gains seen in students’ math scores. Our nation definitely is looking for better results in math, and schools that consistently use PD 360 obtain great math results. This data speaks to the tremendous growth in both confidence and teaching effectiveness that PD 360 gives teachers.”
The results of this study verify that schools and systems can confidently invest in PD 360 as a form of professional learning proven to increase student achievement. Additional research is currently underway to further investigate the effectiveness of PD 360, and several more reports will be released in the coming months as data becomes available.
About PD 360
PD 360 is the leading on-demand professional learning resource for educators with over 500,000 subscribers. Teachers, administrators, professional learning communities, coaches, etc., have access to over 1000 indexed and searchable video segments that present real, best-practice classroom examples. Each segment includes content from respected educational experts such as Michael Fullan, Rick DuFour, Doug Reeves, Rick Stiggins, and many others. PD 360 can be used to create a structured learning experience for an individual teacher, professional learning community, or entire school. It bridges the gap between training and classroom implementation with job-embedded follow-up, tracking, and reflection tools. PD 360 also gives educators access to an online community of teaching professionals that allows interaction and collaboration either within a district or across the United States and world.
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