What is the IXL effect?
The IXL effect is larger when every student reached proficiency on at least one IXL ELA skill per week. For 3-year IXL schools with at least one skill proficient per student, per week, the IXL effect is 12.47, corresponding to a 24-point percentile gain.
What does IXL stand for in IXL?
I excel
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. In most contexts, a catchy abbreviation for “I excel”.
What is a SmartScore in IXL?
The SmartScore is based on IXL’s proprietary algorithm and is the best possible measure of how well a student understands a skill. With the SmartScore, the learning process is rewarded and your students are constantly reassessed. When a student starts practicing a skill, the SmartScore starts at 0.
How do you get 100 SmartScore on IXL?
Students will need to answer as many as 10 questions correctly in a row to achieve mastery. For most skills on IXL, students will have to complete a minimum of 28 questions to earn a SmartScore of 100. When a student achieves a score of 100 on IXL, you can feel confident that they have truly mastered that skill.
Is IXL nationally normed?
About iXL: Districts are able to see levels across the district of how students are performing across schools, but there is no national norming.
What does research say about IXL?
IXL ESSA Research In the 2019 study “The Impact of IXL Math and IXL ELA on Student Achievement in Grades Pre-K to 12,” researchers found that students using IXL experienced greater growth on the NWEA MAP assessments than students without IXL.
What does IXL stand for in school?
IXL (from “I excel”) is a math & language arts practice website for K-12 (subscription based). It has unlimited questions on thousands of math topics and a comprehensive reporting system. This review concentrates on the math part of IXL.
How is IXL rigged?
IXL uses a “SmartScore” system which raises and lowers as you get questions right (or wrong). The catch is that each question students answer correctly raises the score by 2-3 points while each question that is answered incorrectly lowers the score by about six points.