How do you find participants? Should you incentivize participation? While incentives may increase participation, they may also skew your results or cause participants to feel dependent on the money so that they continue when they don’t feel comfortable. NWD can tell you.

If there’s something you need to measure, NWD can tell you how. Just like life, not every learning trajectory follows a linear path. NWD is here to help you navigate your data. What you can’t do? Send us your raw identifiable data without IRB permissions via gmail. There is a lot of red tape. What you can do? Send us your de-identified data and let us dig around, run tests, build models, and check your work if you just need a second set of eyes.

NWD has someone for every part of education research. From curriculum design, Learn Science, EdTech, and analysis. If you want to test an educational intervention or product, we are here to guide you. Data analysts and psychometricians are prepared to help design survey and assessment instruments that will help you solve your research questions. What is engagement, and how should you measure it? Did you rememberr to collect the baseline measure? 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.

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.

You have an idea, but you don’t know where to start? You don’t get to design the data collection, and you want to know what you can say with your advisor’s leftover data set? You really want to write strong research, you know a lot about the field and want to contribute, but have no idea where to start when it comes to the analyses? NWD Consultants have been there. We can help you build from the ground up or we can proofread your existing analyses, papers, and presentations. We can help you write up the results, and turn them into a meaningful metric.

While our business consulting fees tend to start at a higher price, some of our consultants are willing to work on a sliding scale for first-gen or low income students.

You want to boost engagement on your app, but don’t know how to define it, much less measure it? You want to build a meaningful product, but you aren’t sure what features your app will need? Want to move beyond rote memorization with the most cutting edge learning science behind you? Maybe you want to build an EdTech tool, but you don’t know about education. You want to integrate AI into your product but teachers are wary and you aren’t sure where to start? NWD has a consultant for that. Engagement is not just time spent and students need the right tools to learn. We have extensive experience helping EdTech startups start up!