Did you know that students in California do less well than students from Michigan on questions about ice? Do students where you live count tomatoes, mangoes, or apples? To prepare for international growth, you must learn to navigate cultural differences and mitigate the impacts of bias. Is your curriculum suitable for international audiences? Will students in other states or communities learn as well with your curriculum as students in your home town? NWD works with experts around the world to gather the insights you need before taking the leap.

Consultants at NWD are very well versed in Learning Science. We have many years of experience in course development, curriculum design, standards alignment, learning environments, EdTech, front end development, learning management systems, necessary app features, STEM learning, and online engagement… you name it. From motivation to testing, we have you covered.

Should you use a nested model? What do you do if your results are non-linear? Our team has been involved in many domestic and international education research projects. Data analysts and psychometricians are prepared to help design survey and assessment instruments that will help you solve your research questions.

Is it more important to you that a new employee already knows the software you are using or is it better that they can adapt their existing knowledge to your framework and new settings? Do you want them to have the processed memorized or know how to use available resources to get the job done and check their work? Do you want your students to memorize facts or apply those facts to explain unfamiliar phenomena?

Psychometrics is an entire field of science dedicated to measuring unobservable traits like knowledge, psychological attributes, satisfaction, or engagement. It is not just throwing questions on a sheet of paper. We do research about what is being measured, develop scales, test whether they are actually measuring what they say they will, and refine them by uncovering which questions are not contributing to the information collected by the scale to maximize quality and create the shortestt cleanest scale possible. We test against other similar measures, validate the questions, and equalize tests for comparison.

Don’t make the same mistakes as others letting AI make assessments without understanding the science behind assessment. Having AI write tests about the generated AI content runs the risk of an artificial feedback-loop. All you know for sure is that students memorized what the AI thought was important.

NWD’s psychometric experts can help you to design task specific assessments that test learning, adaptibility, and growth. We can help you gather consumer data including demographics with community informed research.

Need to develop lesson plans that are AI proof? An AI curriculum? Where can you integrate AI and where is it falling flat? Talk to people who are using AI, not selling it.

You had a great idea for an app, and no one is using it? Is another vocabulary or fast math rote memorization task. Something like Duolingo? All AI all the time? That’s not how students learn. If you want to make a splash in EdTech, you need something that will teach. Something new. NWD constultants have been on every end of EdTech app development, and we are here to step in.

NWD is not limited to K-12 curriculum. We have consultants famliar with creating learrning systems for employee education and training programs as well.