According to a December 2017 report from the Friday Institute for Educational Innovation at North Carolina State University’s College of Education, STEM Expeditions® helped students achieve statistically significant results on national tests.
Sixth- and seventh-grade STEM Expeditions students at Tucker Creek Middle School in Havelock, NC, scored 20.1 percent higher on the 2016-17 Measures of Academic Progress (MAP) science test than did members of a control group at a nearby middle school. Eighth graders at Pittsburg (KS) Community Middle School (PCMS) who completed the Expeditions as part of a blended science program showed a statistically significant difference in growth in MAP science and reading than did the virtual comparison group.
According to the Friday Institute’s executive summary in the report, “Students in these analysis clusters tended to show more academic growth in science when compared to their peers in a comparison group or when compared to the national median.”