With thousands of edtech products in use throughout K-12 schools, differentiating products claiming to be research-based from those who can demonstrate their methods is important. Since 2020, fewer than 1%… Read More »Congrats to Handwriting Heroes for their Digital Promise Certification
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Co-authors Rachel Schechter, Ph.D. founder of LXD Research & Kathleen Richards, Literacy and Language Learning Scientist Figuring out all this “Science of Reading” stuff could take years. Students’ scores are… Read More »New Phonics K-5 Rubric
Dr. Rachel Schechter, the founder of LXD Research, has partnered with author, blogger, and educator Nate Joseph (Nathaniel Hansford of Pedagogy Non-Grata) to converse about timely and relevant topics related… Read More »Podcast Partnership
You know about the Every Student Succeeds Act. You know that there are tiers of evidence involved. What are they? What are they referring to? How do I ask a… Read More »ESSA Levels of Evidence Explained
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Congrats to edtech’s best and brightest innovators, leaders, and trendsetters! Finalists and winners for The EdTech Awards 2023 have been announced to a worldwide audience of educators, technologists, students, parents,… Read More »Dr. Schechter, EdTech Trendsetter!
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Whether you’re a global educational company with a large product portfolio or a small educational business with a targeted geographic/grade band, the process of recruiting a research partner is fundamentally… Read More »How To: Recruit for Educational Research
What is it and how do we use it? Guest co-author: Apoorva Shivaram There are over 1,400 tools used to assist students with their learning in any given school (this… Read More »Save Time with this Evidence-based Research Review Framework