LearnPlatform Education Technology Engagement Dataset: Impact of COVID-19 on Digital Learning, United States, 2020 (ICPSR 38426)
Version Date: Apr 27, 2022 View help for published
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Mary Styers, LearnPlatform, Inc.
https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR38426.v1
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LearnPlatform is a technology platform in the kindergarten-12th grade (K-12) market providing a broadly interoperable platform to the breadth of educational technology (edtech) solutions in the United States K-12 field. A key component of edtech effectiveness is integrated reporting on tool usage and, where applicable, evidence of efficacy. With COVID closures, LearnPlatform is a resource to measure whether students are accessing digital resources within distance learning constraints. This platform provides a source of data to understand if students are accessing digital resources, and where resources have disparate usage and impact. This study includes educational technology usage across over 8,000 tools used in the education field in 2020.
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This data collection may not be used for any purpose other than statistical reporting and analysis. Use of these data to learn the identity of any person or establishment is prohibited. To protect respondent privacy, some of the data files in this collection are restricted from general dissemination. To obtain these restricted files researchers must agree to the terms and conditions of a Restricted Data Use Agreement in accordance with existing ICPSR servicing policies.
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- This study was originally published in OpenICPSR.
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These data are a Fast Track Release and are distributed as they were received from the data depositor. The files have been zipped for release, but not checked or processed.
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The purpose of this study is to afford users the opportunity to use these data to understand student engagement with core learning activities during the COVID-19 pandemic. Some questions this study seeks to help answer are:
- What is the picture of digital connectivity and engagement in 2020?
- What is the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on online and distance learning, and how might this evolve in the future?
- How does student engagement with different types of education technology change over the course of the pandemic?
- How does student engagement with online learning platforms relate to different geography? Demographic context (e.g., race/ethnicity, ESL, learning disability)? Learning context? Socioeconomic status?
- Do certain state interventions, practices or policies (e.g., stimulus, reopening, eviction moratorium) correlate with increases or decreases in online engagement?
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Kindergarten-12th grade (K-12) population of the United States.
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EdTech Engagement Data: This is the key data utilized by this project that was collected via the LearnPlatform Chrome extension. This technology and the associated reporting platform are made available to all US schools and districts free of charge. The extension collects page load events of over 10,000 education technology products in the product library, including websites, apps, web apps, software programs, extensions, ebooks, hardware, and services used in educational institutions. The engagement data have been aggregated at the school district level, and each file represents data from one school district.
District info: The dataset includes information about the characteristics of school districts, including data from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) and the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). This data is de-identified.
Products info: The dataset includes information about the characteristics of the top 372 products with the most users in 2020.
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There are three different types of data in this study:
- Engagement data: includes variables on percentage of students in the district accessing a specific product and total page loads on a given day.
- District information data: includes information about the characteristics of school districts, including racial demographic information and the percentage of students receiving free or reduced lunch.
- Product information data: includes information about the characteristics of the top 372 products with most users in 2020, including information about product names, provider names, and the educational sector the product is used in.
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These data are freely available to data users at ICPSR member institutions. The curation and dissemination of this study are provided by the institutional members of ICPSR. How do I access ICPSR data if I am not at a member institution?
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