Research
Correlational research is a type of research that helps companies examine relationships between their products' usage and learning outcomes, engagement levels, and other user experiences.
Educators and students are the source of truth on the classroom experience, and they hold invaluable knowledge as the end users of many edtech products. Leanlab Education’s research taps into their expertise by bringing together innovative educators and school districts to collaborate with edtech companies seeking to solve real problems in education.
Usability testing is a type of product research that helps companies establish a better understanding of the mindset and experiences of people interacting with their product.
Edtech companies like Speak Agent are using research to codesign and evaluate their products with the input of educators, students, and parents at every stage of development.
Formative and summative research are used to evaluate product design. However, which of these two evaluations you conduct will depend on where you are in the design process.
The goal of an implementation pilot is to establish concrete guidelines for how an edtech tool should be used by educators and learners in an authentic context that creates and sustains long-term, quality engagement with the tool.
We’re learned a lot over the years conducting edtech research in authentic learning environments. Here are 12 lessons that changed the way we do research at Leanlab.
We’re excited to launch a new Codesign Product Certification verifies that qualifying, education-technology companies iterate their products based on authentic, school-community recommendations and feedback from Leanlab's codesign research process.
In interviews with over 240 teachers we found they’re are grappling with the social-emotional health of their students but are also finding success engaging with their students in-person to help them build these skills.
Defining the nuanced challenges that parents and caregivers are facing in 2020 is a big undertaking, but it merits our full attention before we can shift into problem-solving mode.
