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LearnPlatform Launches Evidence Subscription Service to Help Education Technology Vendors Demonstrate ESSA Compliance

• By Kristal Kuykendall
• 10/02/22

LearnPlatform today launched a subscription-based analytics solution called Evidence-as-a-Service to help education technology providers and school districts better determine the impact of their digital learning platforms and gather the evidence necessary to demonstrate compliance with the Every Student Succeeds Act, the company announced.

Evidence-as-a-Service can help vendors at any stage create evidence and data-based evidence of their product to meet ESSA funding requirements for school districts and states, according to the release. hurry.

“Each subscription aligns with one or more of the four levels of evidence outlined in the ESSA to demonstrate rationale and identify and show promising, moderate, or strong evidence that their product has a positive impact on student outcomes,” said said the company. “Whether it’s a solution for core curriculum, tutoring, learning loss, or another educational goal, the Evidence-as-a-Service model provides a path to ESSA compliance in weeks. , at a fraction of the cost of traditional models.”

“Technology adoption is here to stay. Districts manage more than 1,400 educational technology products on average, and the numbers aren’t going down this year,” said LearnPlatform Director of Research Mary Styers, Ph.D. “Knowing how these tools work, in what situations and for which students and teachers is a crucial question that every district leader asks himself.”

LearnPlatform’s three subscription options are specifically designed to help all education technology providers become ESSA compliant and “build evidence-based interventions that empower districts and states to buy and use their products to improve student outcomes”.

Age of Learning, the company behind the widely used ABCmouse e-learning program, used LearnPlatform to validate and evaluate its research for My Math Academy, an adaptive math program for young learners, and its newest offering. , My Reading Academy, said Age of Learning Chief Innovation Officer Sunil Gunderia.

“We’re partnering with LearnPlatform to develop a modernized approach to evidence collection because it’s an important part of validating the learning gains our programs are designed to help students achieve,” said Gunderia. in the press release. “This evidence is essential to help schools and districts identify solutions that will work in their specific contexts to deliver learning outcomes.”

Another early adopter of LearnPlatform’s capabilities is Nepris, a platform connecting career professionals with students through virtual meetings and exposing learners to various career and education paths.

“We always knew that our platform increased student engagement in school and prepared them for the future of work, but external research was too expensive and no one was reading it,” said Sabari Raja, CEO and co. -founder of Nepris. “With LearnPlatform, we’ve found a quick, hands-on approach that helps our state and district partners feel confident in what we’re doing — and what we’ll do together — to achieve their goals.”

Learn more about Evidence-as-a-Service on the LearnPlatform website.