SaaS publishing company KNeoMedia (ASX: KNM) has launched the company’s new Content Services Platform (CSP), KneoScience, to three districts within the New York City Department of Education.
The launch encompasses an initial 35,000 licence deployment to elementary and middle school students.
The company has developed the new platform, co-designing, testing and implementing it with the NYC DOE over the last 14 months for delivery of what is mandated curriculum in the field of Science Investigations undertaken by students over the course of each year on an ongoing basis.
KneoMedia has created a unique Content Services Digital Platform, in multiple languages, to replace the current complex and cumbersome paper-based format of the instruction, reporting and grading of the Science Investigations.
Accordingly, the new platform is vastly more efficient, easier to implement, saves a significant amount of time for both students and teachers, and includes delivery and ongoing easy access to in-depth assessment data at student, class and school level.
About Science Investigations
The Science Investigations in New York State, including New York City, are mandated for all public, private and charter schools and encompass grades of 3 to 8.
The Investigations are ongoing throughout the year and are practical ‘investigations’ undertaken to help assess if students have developed a deeper understanding of scientific concepts and principles, by having them engage in hands-on experiments to test how they apply their knowledge to real-world situations and record their findings. Immediate benefits of converting the current paper based Science Investigations to the KneoScience digital platform include and are not limited to:
- Anticipated increase in students’ science grades.
- Minimum 50% time and cost saving in the classroom and time saving for teachers’ grading of student investigations with including optional AI grading.
- Removal of paper based investigations often lost over the duration of the students’ investigations.
- Realtime comparative data of student, class, school and District level performance.
- Secure student data is available on an ongoing basis for real-time review to measure academic progression and is transferable with student relocations.
KneoScience is being launched at a critical time for NYC DOE given data supports only 30% of students in New York City were proficient in science in the 2023-2024 State exam.
The number of public school students mandated to undertake the Science Investigations in New York City each year is approximately 400,000.
“KneoScience has been a wonderful collaboration by our team, tech partners and the NYC DOE to produce a platform that has immediate impact on deployment. We are delighted with the response from DOE staff eager to switch to the program at the earliest opportunity instead of using the paper based system,” KneoMedia Chairman, James Kellett, said.
“Following this initial 35,000 licence deployment, we are anticipating very strong demand for KneoScience in New York City and subsequently New York State where the same paper investigations are still the only method used by a similar number of students.
“While pricing at this time remains commercial-in-confidence, it follows a similar regime as previous product deployments and will generate revenue comfortably in excess of operating and development costs in the near term. With the first deployment completing, we will now focus on ongoing roll-out.”
