ScootPad

ScootPad is a personalized mastery platform offered by Learning Explorer, Inc. that claims to provide a comprehensive adaptive curriculum in Math and ELA for grades K-8. According to the vendor, this solution is primarily targeted towards educational settings, particularly K-8 schools, and is used by teachers, school administrators, curriculum coordinators, district administrators, and education technology professionals.

Key Features

Adaptive Placement: According to the vendor, ScootPad utilizes an adaptive placement assessment to accurately identify each student's proficiency in different concepts. This comprehensive assessment covers independent and dependent concepts across the entire learning path, providing insights for personalized practice and scaffolding.

Comprehensive Curriculum: ScootPad claims to offer a comprehensive curriculum in Math and ELA for grades K-8, aligned with Common Core and state-specific standards. The curriculum includes lessons, targeted practices, and formative assessments to support student learning.

Engaging Field Tested Content: According to the vendor, ScootPad's content is meticulously designed and continuously improved based on data-driven content analysis. It includes instructional videos for step-by-step explanations and interactive practice problems with tech-enhanced item formats to measure student knowledge.

Data-Driven Content Insights: The vendor claims that ScootPad provides powerful data-driven content analysis based on millions of student responses. Continuous improvement is achieved through real-time feedback and live content updates, aiming to optimize content difficulty, alignment, accuracy, and quality.

Intuitive Dashboards and Reports: ScootPad offers intuitive dashboards and reports that provide insights into class and student performance, according to the vendor. The class dashboard allows for easy monitoring of progress, while activity, mastery, assessment, and intervention insights aim to inform instructional decisions.

Customizable Learning: According to the vendor, ScootPad empowers educators to personalize learning for each student by designing their own goals, proficiency levels, and rigor. Learning paths can be customized to align with curriculum maps and pacing guides, and educators can collaborate and share content with the ScootPad community.

1,000+ standards and textbook aligned adaptive learning paths: ScootPad claims to offer over 1,000 standards-aligned and textbook-mapped adaptive learning paths in Math and ELA for Grades K-8. The curriculum covers a wide range of topics and concepts, aiming to provide personalized instruction based on individual needs and progress.

Intervention: According to the vendor, ScootPad's predictive intervention feature helps identify standards that need re-teaching and students who need intervention. The Intervention Monitor offers insights for whole-class, small groups, and one-on-one settings, allowing teachers to measure intervention effectiveness and provide targeted support.

Just-In-Time Scaffolding: ScootPad provides dynamic scaffolding within and across grade levels, offering prerequisite concept knowledge to help students progress in their learning, according to the vendor. Scaffolding is automatically adjusted based on each student's needs and progress, aiming to ensure a solid foundation before tackling more complex concepts.

Assessments: ScootPad's advanced assessment platform includes a standards-aligned item bank, according to the vendor. Teachers can create new assessments using the auto-generate feature or select items from the item bank. Pre-built quick entry and exit assessments for each standard aim to provide formative insights for instructional adjustments.