Our position paper is now out: "Learning Variability Network Exchange (LEVANTE): A Global Framework for Measuring Children's Learning Variability Through Collaborative Data Sharing". srcd.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... (preprint: osf.io/preprints/ps...) What is LEVANTE? 🧵
This sounds fascinating! Can’t wait to see the impact of LEVANTE on understanding kids’ learning differences worldwide.
Children vary! We see this variation everywhere - within households, classrooms, and schools, but also in cross-cultural comparisons. We even see substantial variation within individual children from day to day. How can we measure and understand this variability? That's the goal of LEVANTE.
LEVANTE is a technical framework and a network, both supported by the Jacobs Foundation. The technical framework is a set of tasks, surveys, and other measures for capturing children's growth and development across many different domains.
Labs around the world will use the LEVANTE dashboard to deploy measures for kids and families. Then, the data are validated, scored, and preprocessed and flow to an repository for use by other researchers. The goal is a field-leading open dataset about children's growth in context.
LEVANTE includes a whole host of measures. These include tasks that measure reasoning, math, language, reading (with help from ROAR), social cognition, and executive function, as well as surveys and other data on the child, the home, the caregiver, and the context.
The LEVANTE network is a community of international researchers working on these same topics. The Jacobs Foundation gives grants to researchers for using the framework - the second call for proposals is currently open: levante-network.org/levante-open...
Our network of pilot and first-wave sites already spans three continents and seven countries - we hope to grow much more in the years to come! Take a look at the paper for more details - and tech specs are available at our researcher website: researcher.levante-network.org
This looks really impressive!