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Corporate partners

Partnerships that
move learning
forward.

Different expertise.
A shared focus on learning.

Our work has grown through instructional resources, research collaborations, and support for new ideas in tutoring.

Explore the relationships that contribute to our work today—and those that helped shape it.

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01 / Instruction

Resources in practice

02 / Research

Learning through collaboration

03 / Support

Ideas made possible

Instructional resources

Strong foundations.
Purposeful resources.

The tools matter most in how they support instruction.

Cignition uses Phonics Hero No-Prep Phonics lessons within our K–3 ELA curriculum, alongside the live guidance of a Cignition tutor.

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K–3 English Language Arts

Phonics Hero

A resource for foundational reading instruction.

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Research & prior collaborations

Questions worth asking.
Work worth learning from.

From independent evaluation to instructional feedback, these projects have helped us examine how tutoring works and how it can improve.

Learning sciences & evaluation

Studying how students learn.

Digital Promise evaluated an early Cignition model combining one-to-one math tutoring with game-based learning. The work helped examine students’ understanding of fractions.

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Independent evaluation

Examining small-group tutoring.

Mathematica evaluated Cignition’s virtual tutoring for groups of up to four fifth-grade students, studying fractions knowledge, math confidence, enjoyment, and tutor relationships.

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Past instructional collaboration

Making student participation visible.

Cignition piloted TeachFX to help tutors reflect on student talk, questioning, academic vocabulary, and participation during virtual tutoring.

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Past research collaboration

Using learning data thoughtfully.

A grant-funded collaboration during the 2021–22 school year explored the use of ASSISTments dashboard data in small-group math tutoring.

About ASSISTments research

Selected studies and past projects from Cignition’s development. Explore the research for each study’s program, participants, and findings.

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Foundational research support

Helping new ideas
take shape.

Grant support helped Cignition develop and study early approaches to data-informed math tutoring and collaborative learning.

Gates Foundation

Supported research and development across Cignition’s early math-tutoring projects.

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Overdeck Family Foundation

Helped support research into high-impact, small-group collaborative tutoring.

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Schmidt Futures

Supported the early development and evaluation of data-informed tutoring.

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Chan Zuckerberg Initiative

Supported early research and development in mathematics learning.

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Historical research support. Some materials use the Gates Foundation’s former name, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

Google for Education

Technology & recognition

A connection to the
education technology community.

Cignition’s history includes a Google for Education relationship and recognition as a 2021 Google Cloud Customer Award winner in Education.

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What could we
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