We are thrilled to share that the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (JPAL) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has selected BookNook for its second round of groundbreaking social science research projects. The full press announcement is here.
With our selection comes both a financial grant and technical assistance to help us work with one of our strongest implementation partners, the Boys and Girls Clubs of Greater Houston, to plan a rigorous randomized control trial research (RCT) project for the 2020-21 school year.
As a dual bottom line company, we are committed to ensuring that our programs don’t just delight students and help make teachers’ lives easier–we want to see that they are driving significant reading improvement for students.
While we are excited to have seen such a large effect size in the quasi-experimental design study we released in the spring, RCT is the ‘gold standard’ in social science research and will help us to better understand how students are benefiting from their time using BookNook.
We are grateful to the JPAL team at MIT for selecting us, and to BGC Greater Houston for signing on as our partner for this research–and most of all for our students, whose effort and engagement with our platform are what make all of this possible!
Read the release from MIT here.
