Research Practice Partnership

We leverage a combination of evidence-based research and practitioner expertise in the design and development of system features and functions. Where research is available, we seek to put it at our educators’ disposal. And where research is not yet available, we work with philanthropy and our research partners to see find the answers. As a result, there is an evidence-basis that informs each of our towers.

1. Community & Accountability - These reports are based in the linking studies published by NWEA here.

2. Learning Climate & Dispositions - These reports are grounded in the well-being instrument curated by CORE Districts, PACE and Education Analytics, summarized here.

3. Academic Assessments - Our assessment team reviewed the psychometric research published by each of the vendors to determine how to best map test scores to our data visualizations in a manner that would allow for apples-to-apples comparisons.

   • NWEA

   • STAR Renaissance

   • Acadience Reading / Dibels

   • ACT

   • SAT / PSAT

   • iStation

4. Career Competency - This tower is based on philanthropically funded research performed by Marzano research. Read about our partnership with Marzano in this article: “Connections That Count: The Power Of Social Capital In Classrooms”

5. Plans & Real-Time Intervention - Coming soon!