This report was produced in partnership with the Silicon Valley Education Foundation and supported by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.Khan Academy Kids is a free, fun, educational app with thousands of activities and books that will inspire a lifetime of learning and discovery for young children ages 2-8.

Developers could benefit from integrating that research into their product designs. Additional research into how to best support struggling learners with edtech products is needed. At the same time, there are concerns about the potential of edtech products like Khan Academy to unintentionally exacerbate the achievement gap. Overall, the study found that Khan Academy is a useful tool, and that teachers and students appreciated it as a resource for practice and reinforcement of math learning. Khan Academy is an organization that offers free, online practice exercises, instructional videos, and a personalized learning dashboard designed to help students study and learn material at their own pace.ĭata reported in this study are primarily qualitative in nature, drawn from over 28 Khan Academy-focused classroom observations, focus groups with over 100 students, and teacher interviews. Khan Academy Math was of interest to district staff and, also, was present in all focal classrooms, and thus became a study focus. Rather, the authors opportunistically asked to observe lessons on days when teachers would be using edtech products and then chose the most consistently used math products to focus on for case studies. The aim was neither a comprehensive evaluation of a particular product and its full suite of capacities nor a review of whether the product was aligned to state standards for mathematics. The authors describe how such products are used in real time by students in the classroom. This report, developed in partnership with WestEd and the Silicon Valley Education Foundation, describes part of an implementation study that seeks to understand 7 th-grade students’ engagement with edtech math products, absent any intervention.

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