Case Study: NewSchools achieves higher student engagement insights with Nearpod

NewSchools - Customer Case Study

NewSchools Venture Fund, through analyst David Havens’ work, explored how to measure student engagement with edtech tools in the classroom. The challenge was to define and evaluate engagement in a way that reflected both education research and modern technology, using a framework focused on social motivation, creativity, personalization, educator engagement, and interactivity.

Nearpod responded by surveying about 2,100 students who used its classroom platform and comparing the results against those engagement variables. Nearpod found that 89% of students rated activities as “just right” in difficulty, 82% felt they could express creativity, and about 50% said they participated more, with 40% saying they learned more; additional results showed 73% reported helpful student interaction and 88% said teachers knew how they were doing most or some of the time.

NewSchools

David Havens

Former Analyst