Article: Effectiveness Study Shows McDougal Littell Life Science Increases Student Achievement, Improves Attitudes about Science.

BOSTON -- McDougal Littell, a division of Houghton Mifflin Company, announced today that the McDougal Littell Life Science program is more effective than others in increasing student achievement and improving their attitudes about science, according to a recent study comparing the effectiveness of middle school life science textbooks. E[acute accent]Catherine Callow-Heusser, Ph.D., director of EndVision Research and Evaluation, conducted the study with Geoffrey D. Borman, Ph.D., of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, who assisted with analysis. E[acute accent]"We performed a randomized experiment -- which many consider to be the gold standard in evidenced-based research ...

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