Transforming a Successful, High-Growth EdTech App Into an Inclusive Innovation for SEND Alternative Qualifications

Adapt是一款基于ml的学习计划应用程序，适用于GCSE和a - level学生，于2020年1月推出，在英国中学市场广受好评。一经推出，该公司就在教育应用商店中排名第一，在2019年赢得了CVC的年度青年创新者奖，在2020年被苹果公司推荐在应用商店的头版，并在2021年赢得了伦敦科技周的提升创始人欧洲比赛。迄今为止，Adapt已经在3000多所学校获得了超过50万的活跃用户，并且每天还在以1000-2000名学生的速度增长。Adapt的EdTech产品是一款复习时间表应用程序，由教师专业知识驱动，与学生一起构建，可以在一分钟内制定完美的复习计划，然后不断调整以确保它始终是最新的。Adapt现在正在寻求通过“调整”其久经考验的技术来实现其产品的多样化，以适应非主流的SEND替代资格；以前从未有人做过的事。与提供基于GCSE和A-Level考试的学习课程不同，Adapt的SEND替代资格应用程序将提供关于单位奖励计划（UAS）、ELCs和发达入门水平的学习课程。每门课程都将由特殊学校购买（并为其量身定制），包括特殊学校、另类课程和其他提供另类资格的非主流学校。这些学校和机构还可以为他们的老师和领导访问一个匹配的动态数据仪表板，实时显示他们的SEND学生在哪些方面有信心，在哪些方面有困难。这将使教师和学校能够更成功地监测非主流教育中SEND学生的进步；对于面临独立学习障碍的SEND学生尤其重要（例如，难以开始一项任务，对学习失去兴趣，很少完成任务，Tohara et al., 2021）。这将降低他们的失败率，并确保更多有SEND的年轻人成功毕业进入工作场所，解决教育部在2022年确定的关键挑战，即“在每一项措施中，有SEND或其他规定的儿童和年轻人的结果始终比同龄人差。”

Adapt, a ML-powered study planning app for GCSE and A-Level students, launched in January 2020 to great acclaim in the UK Secondary School market. Upon launch, the company shot to Number 1 on the Education App Store, winning CVC's Young Innovator of the Year Award in 2019, being featured by Apple on the front page of the App Store in 2020 and winning London Tech Week's Elevating Founders Europe Competition in 2021\. To date, Adapt has acquired over 500,000 active users in over 3,000 schools, and continues to grow by 1000-2000 students per day.Adapt's EdTech product is a revision timetable app, driven by teacher expertise and built with students, which makes a perfect revision plan in under a minute and then continually adapts it to ensure it's always up to date. Adapt is now seeking to diversify its offering by "adapting" its tried and tested technology to non-mainstream SEND Alternative Qualifications; something which has never been done before. Rather than provide courses of study based on GCSE and A-Level exams, Adapt's SEND Alternative Qualifications app will provide courses of study on the Unit Award Scheme (UAS), ELCs and Developed Entry Levels. Each course will be bought by (and tailored to) special schools in the SEND system, alternative provision, and other non-mainstream settings which offer Alternative Qualifications. Those schools and settings will also have access to a matching dynamic data dashboard for their teachers and leaders, showing them in real time where their SEND students are confident and where they are struggling.This will allow teachers and schools to monitor much more successfully the progress of SEND students in non-mainstream education; particularly important for SEND students, who face additional barriers to independent learning (e.g., struggling to begin a task, losing interest in learning, and rarely finishing tasks, Tohara et al., 2021). This will reduce their failure rate and ensure more young people with SEND successfully graduate into the workplace, addressing the key challenge identified by the DfE in 2022 that "outcomes for children and young people with SEND or in alternative provision are consistently worse than their peers across every measure."