The report calls for reframing edtech certification applications to help developers identify equity gaps in the research they use¶

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q1 i? Digital Promise reframed its certification application so developers identify where the learner communities in their research differ from the communities the product serves, responding to research's historical exclusion of marginalized communities. → equity-1

Evidence¶

equity-1¶

Van Nostrand, P., Noakes, S., Shah, Z., & Luke Luna C. (2022, February). An overlooked indicator of edtech quality: The use of learning sciences research. Digital Promise. https://doi.org/10.51388/20.500.12265/150

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Authors' stated rationale for the certification's 2022 update; this is the organization's own interpretive position and design decision, not a tested result.

"research has historically excluded marginalized communities and presented findings in a deficit-based framing. We saw this as a call to reframe our application to facilitate developers in identifying equity gaps in the research they use"

Discussion¶

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