Let's Go Learn Inc.
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| ISIN | 🆔 |
| Founded 📆 | 2000 |
| Founders 👔 | Richard Capone, Dr. Richard McCallum |
| Headquarters 🏙️ | , Kensington, California , USA |
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Key people | Richard Capone (CEO) |
| Members | |
Number of employees | 30 (2021) |
| 🌐 Website | https://www.letsgolearn.com/ |
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Let's Go Learn, Inc. (LGL) is a privately-held education technology(edtech) company in Kensington, California. The company produces online, personalized learning software in math, language arts, and several other disciplines, provided to SaaS, site license, and individual, retail customers. Let's Go Learn created one of the first educational assessment systems available on the internet based on adaptive learning, beginning with a diagnostic assessment for reading. The company also provides professional development services. According to the company, Let's Go Learns's products have been used by over 10 million K–12 students in the United States since 2000.
History[edit]
In 2000, technologist Richard Capone and reading expert, Dr. Richard McCallum, of University of California, Berkeley founded Let’s Go Learn, Inc. (LGL), initially to determine why students struggled in reading and how to better inform teachers on student learning.[1]
Let's Go Learn's first product was called Diagnostic Online Reading Assessment (DORA). According to WikiHow, the product evaluates "a child’s ability in multiple reading skill sets from word recognition to spelling and oral vocabulary." [2] This web-based software assessed the students’ current levels of reading literacy in multiple skill sets, including word recognition, spelling and oral vocabulary, among others. The software also helped educators monitor academic growth in reading.
Shortly after its inception, Let’s Go Learn received a grant from the US Department of Education to compare the online DORA software with in-person, one-on-one assessments offered by trained specialists in the CalReads program. The study provided statistical proof that Let’s Go Learn’s online assessments worked as designed. Soon thereafter, Let's Go Learn conducted additional, successful educational studies to document the validity and reliability of its diagnostic assessment products.
In 2003, DORA was compared to both the Slosson Oral Reading Test and Woodcock Word Identification Test. Both comparisons yielded a correlation value over .9. In 2010, a Colorado researcher compared DORA to the Colorado state reading assessment over a period of 4 years with favorable results. DORA proved to be a "significant predictor" of results from state assessments in New Jersey and California.[3] Eventually, DORA was shown to provide results on a par with well-known, non-web-based reading assessments, including Diagnostic Assessments in Reading, Slosson Oral Reading Test, Woodcock Word Identification Test, and the Gray Oral Reading Test. A 2018 research paper noted that DORA continues to "assess the students’ current levels of literacy and monitor growth throughout the school year."[3]
In 2005, Let’s Go Learn created a Diagnostic Online Math Assessment (DOMA) system to examine mathematics knowledge up through algebra, as well as an Adaptive Diagnostic Assessment of Mathematics (ADAM) to provide a more comprehensive look at present levels across 44 sub-tests. Also in 2005, Let’s Go Learn provided free access to its online products to help support Hurricane Katrina K-5 victims in the Gulf Coast region of the US.[4]
In 2012, Let's Go Learn added web-based, personalized instructional curricula software to their product line, in math and language arts. These supplemental instructional programs, called LGL Math Edge and LGL ELA Edge, were designed to build upon and integrate with Let's Go Learn's assessment products, allowing the Edge products to automatically create individual learning paths.
Let’s Go Learn’s products are statistically validated for reliability and are aligned with Common Core and state standards.
Today, Let's Go Learn provides comprehensive, online products in the following areas: diagnostic assessment, formative assessment, supplemental instruction, dyslexia screening, and digital literacy training. Professional educators continue to study the effectiveness of Let’s Go Learn’s products in practical use.
Research[edit]
Let's Go Learn utilizes many different validated, cognitive and presentation strategies in their educational software, including adaptive learning, gamification, and personalized learning.
Sponsorships[edit]
- In 2021, Let's Go Learn became the Platinum Sponsor for the Council for Exceptional Children (CEC), publishers of the peer-reviewed journal Exceptional Children, and the largest, international, professional organization dedicated to improving the success of children and youth with disabilities and/or gifts and talents.[5] In that year, Let's Go Learn provided CEC members with exclusive, no-cost access to the company's suite of special education products designed to help teachers and administrators serve students with IEPs.
References[edit]
- ↑ "About Us". Official site of Let's Go Learn, Inc. Retrieved December 22, 2021.
- ↑ "How to Test Your Child's Reading Level". February 12, 2020. Retrieved December 22, 2021.
The exam, and other similar diagnostic reading tests, evaluate a child’s ability in multiple reading skill sets from word recognition to spelling and oral vocabulary.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 "The effectiveness of Imagine Learning as a Tier II intervention". April 1, 2018. Retrieved December 22, 2021.
- ↑ "Ed Tech Community Supports Katrina Victims". November 1, 2005. Retrieved December 22, 2021.
- ↑ "CEC Advantage Program". Official Site Of Council for Exceptional Children. Retrieved 2021-12-22.
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