Renaissance Learning, Inc.

Robert Zieroth

Mark Angel

Pete Jungwirth

Diana Blythe

Gena Kukartsev

Eric Stickney

Mariel Z Pina

Julianne Robar

Doris Chavez-Linville

Catherine N Close

Ajay Mathew

A multi-lingual toggle ('MLT') system with transferable skills, course mapping and tranlanguaging capabilities across educational content from different regional and global jurisdictions is disclosed. The MLT system tracks student holistic and longitudinal growth towards developing a multiliterate brain and supports literacy education in multiple languages. The MLT system includes learning progression routines developed authentically to reflect literacy acquisition in the target language. The learning progressions are empirically validated through the application of an item response theory (“IRT”) psychometric model to compute the difficulty of the skills associated with the learning progressions. There is a strong relationship between the ordering of the skills and the associated difficulties that presents an opportunity to create multilingual literacy trajectories that highlight how multilingual students achieve multiliteracy holistically, rather than in a monolingual sense. A key component is the identification and reporting of transferable skills between languages (e.g., English and Spanish) and a variant model allows learning objectives and associated data to be tracked across languages.

Multi-lingual toggle system with transferable skills, course mapping and translanguaging capabilities across global and regional educational jurisdictions

Some embodiments of an integrated student-growth platform for discovering, designating, and organizing heterogeneous instructional electronic resources based on observational assessments of students are disclosed. The student-growth platform is configured to establish and generate the best possible set of skills and resources for an educator to teach a group of students on a particular day and for a student to quickly progress to meet preferred educational standards. In one embodiment, the student-growth system includes a communication unit for sending and receiving data among users (e.g., teachers and students), an assessment platform, a planning platform, a learning-progression platform, an assignment platform, a mastery-maker platform, a Multi-Dimensional Response Item (MIRT) platform, and a reporting platform. The assessment platformcollects observation data for a target student, identifies one or more indicators to the learning-progression platform, which is coupled to the assignment platform, the mastery-maker platform, the MIRT platform, and the reporting module.

Integrated student-growth platform

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Wisconsin Rapids, WI, United States of America

Robert Zieroth