Digital Learning Challenge
UpGrade by Carnegie Learning
Pittsburgh, United States
Carnegie Learning is a leading provider of K–12 education technology, curriculum, and professional learning solutions at the forefront of educational technology companies using artificial intelligence to improve learning for students. A leader for more than 25 years, the company is recognized for using the power of data to improve student performance, and have channeled their leading research into tools and technology that champion teachers and build lifelong learners. The UpGrade by Carnegie Learning platform helps educational technology companies conduct high-quality experiments to support evidence-based improvements to learning outcomes. UpGrade has been integrated in multiple learning environments, such as Carnegie Learning's MATHia, to facilitate scalable, substantive, learning-science based controlled field studies in real classrooms.
UpGrade by Carnegie Learning facilitates the rapid deployment of randomized controlled trials in educational software, contributing to the better understanding of which experiences are most effective in digital learning environments. UpGrade is a free and open-source platform: Anyone can use it to field-test instructional improvements in educational software. This enables researchers, product developers, and educators to iteratively design interventions and product enhancements that can rapidly produce data to measure which changes lead to better learning outcomes. UpGrade makes these types of rigorous, high-quality experiments possible at a scale previously unheard of in traditional educational research, reaching thousands to hundreds of thousands of learners (or more) within a single study.
Carnegie Learning’s additional educational solutions and services include CLEARMath, CLEARLiteracy, CLEARLanguages, and CLEARServices.