A strong majority of surveyed edtech products agree that products rooted in learning sciences research have the greatest impact on learning¶

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q2 i? Seventy-three percent of surveyed developers strongly agreed that edtech products rooted in research foundations have the greatest impact. → survey-2

Evidence¶

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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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Self-report survey item from the December 2021 Digital Promise survey of certified edtech products; Figure 1 shows the agreement distribution across three impact-related statements.

"Seventy-three percent of the respondents strongly agreed that edtech products rooted in research foundations have the greatest impact."

Discussion¶

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