Personalization with Knewton
Director, Academic Platform Programs
November 2014
D. Bradley McIlquham
The internet does two things:
2.Data mining 1.Distribution
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Knewton’s mission is to bring personalized learning to the world.Our engine analyzes student activity to recommend the best content and evaluate progress & engagement by:
● modeling and analyzing how different students learn
● figuring out which materials and lessons are most effective
● empowering teachers with data about student progress
Across disciplines and grade levels
Personalization, behind the scenes
What the Knewton API provides
Recommendations provide underlying
insights on proficiency, engagement, and more to teachers, parents, and students.
Analytics Learning historiesallow students to start warm in new courses, drawing on previously demonstrated learning preferences and gaps.
guide each student to the right content to tackle next within the partner’s pool of recommendable content.
ExperienceAdaptive Learning
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Blended learning toolkit
Student profile dashboard
Partner Products
Partner Products
18% 78% 47% $12M+
in annual recovered tuition from retained students
increase in pass rate for developmental math
reduction in withdrawal rate fromdevelopmental math
Extensive, multi-year implementation across all first year math courses
overall pass rate for developmental math
Adaptivity improving student outcomes
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85%pass rate; taking Knewton increase a student’s chance of placing into first year math by 25%.
87%pass rate for the lowest-level developmental math course, an increase of 20 - 25% over previous years.
10%improvement in pre-versus post-test scores for students using Knewton versus other developmental math software.
Improving student outcomes
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Top 5 For-Profit
University
Data DrivenAdaptive Learning
Open platform for educationOur API partnerships vary by subject, grade level, centrality of adaptivity, and more. Knewton is flexible.
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Analytics for the publisher
Exhaustion
How much content are
students utilizing,
mapped to proficiency
achieved
Assessment
Quality
How well individual
questions assess
underlying topics
Instructional
Impact
How pieces of content
contribute to learning
Restructuring class time:
Lab time & space
Tutoring resources
Student grouping (proficiency, engagement, heterogeneous groups)
Creative projects
Inspiring discussion and mini lectures informed by analytics
Data-driven decisions
Data-driven decisions
Evaluating and creating new curriculae
Students completing course
Data-driven decisions
Planning lab space based on pacing for examsRethinking completion policies and linear milestones
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@bmcilquham