RHMS STEAM Program
Academic Difference

As the STEAM program has made the transition to its larger and more inclusive model, we have worked to track the performance of the program as it has taken the shape, it does now. This data has shown us that students within the STEAM program are growing and growing at an often much higher than their counterparts, particularly in math. Last year gave us our first-ever data comparing STEAM ESS co-taught students to non-STEAM co-taught students.

When compared to their counterparts outside of the program STEAM students have shown an increased RIT score growth between fall and spring administrations of the MAP test by just over three and three-quarter points. What's even more exciting in our eyes is that within our 8th-grade population, which was the only group last year to have both general education 8th grade and High School level Algebra 1 students in the program on average almost doubled the growth of students outside of the program.

While this data was what we wanted to see, we wanted to look a step further and to look at our program and see compare the growth of the students who were in the program versus students who were not, but still had the same math teacher. For example, a 7th-grade math teacher who taught 4 classes a day of the same math class where two of the classes were STEAM and the other two were non-STEAM. When looking at these instances the data below shows what we found.