Learning Transformation

Develop the Skills Students Rely on for Learning & Align Teaching for Mastery

Core issues challenging the education system
The Symptoms

Absenteeism

Chronic absenteeism remains 75% above pre-pandemic levels, jumping from 15% in 2018-2019 to 26% in 2022-23. 

College Readiness

60% of high school graduates need remedial courses, 40% drop out of four-year colleges, and only 5% of community college students complete a two-year degree on time. 

Student Wellbeing

45% of students feel persistent sadness or hopelessness, 20% seriously consider suicide, and 10% attempt it. Most students reporting negative feelings also struggle academically.

Academic Performance

Standardized test scores paint a grim picture: 40% of elementary students are proficient in math and 36% in science (a low score to begin with), but by high school, these drop to 25% and 20%, respectively

Engagement

75% of third graders are engaged, but by tenth grade, only 25% remain engaged. Misconceptions about teaching and learning based on intuition have led to an epidemic of disengagement in schools.

 

Teaching

The current approach to teaching is disconnected from how students learn
(Hynes, 2014).

The Root Causes

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Assessments

Current assessments fail to capture what matters most, and do not provide key stakeholders with the insights they need to accelerate learning
(Tim Knowles, Carnegie Foundation, 2023)

 

Learning

Learning is a scientific process, and for students to learn optimally they must be taught (Bjork et al., 2013: Dunlosky 2021).

COGx Addresses the Root Causes

COGx Empowers Educators to Teach for Mastery & Develop 21st Century Skills for their Students

We developed evidence-based programs with the leading experts on human learning. This empowers educators to teach effectively and students to learn efficiently and independently. You select which programs you’d like exclusive access to in a personalized learning platform for your school.

COGx Educator Programs (PD)

Educators are far more effective at teaching what they know if they master how students learn. Yet, this information is rarely included in pre-service training or in-service training. Ignoring this does not set up educators or students to succeed. COGx closes this gap with a robust, flexible and proven program offering that can be customized to meet each organization’s needs.

Our professional development programs provides educators compelling research and insightful application to bolster teaching efficacy and improve your students’ ability to learn.

COGx Student Programs

Research reveals that students rely on the least effective strategies to learn. This causes students to work too hard and/or underperform. An education is incomplete if we fail to teach our students how to learn optimally. COGx closes this gap by democratizing the science of learning for students with various versions of the program for middle school through college-level students.

Our blended program for students helps them master evidence-based techniques and strategies based on the Science of Learning. It teaches students to process information effectively, amass knowledge reliably, and learn deeply.

What prevents a learner from learning optimally?

Teaching is rarely aligned to how students learn while assessments promote performance (which is not learning)

The current approach to teaching is often disconnected from how students learn (Hynes, 2014). A global crisis is emerging of learners of all ages being unprepared for future employment and prosperity (UNICEF, 2022), increasing achievement and opportunity gaps (UNESCO, 2023) with “uneducated, uninspired, and unskilled” learners (UNICEF, 2022).

Students are rarely taught how to learn optimally

Learning is a scientific process, and for students to learn optimally they must be taught (Dunlosky 2021). This is true regardless of cognitive abilities and disposition towards learning. Students often use ineffective techniques such as highlighting and re-reading, with limited success. Such strategies are rooted in the misconception about learning (Bjork et.al, 2018).

Inadequate learning support to address cognitive differences

Our individualized programs leverage the principle of neuroplasticity, which refers to our brain’s ability to adapt through forming new neural connections throughout life. The brain’s ability to change both its physical structure and its functional organization in response to training (skill-building), demonstrate how the brain can adapt and fundamentally enhance it’s capacity to learn more efficiently when cognition is properly targeted.

COGx has been devoted to translating scientific research and evidence-based practice into accessible programs. They are rigorous in their approach and committed to applying research findings and evidence with fidelity. As a result, they are making great strides in changing the status quo in education to one that embraces scientific research on learning.

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Professor Robert Bjork
COGx Academic Partner & Professor of Psychology, UCLA; Bjork Learning & Forgetting Lab

COGx Supports Students with Cognitive Differences - Individualized programs enhance cognition and ensure transfer

Teach: the science of learning

COGx programs include a curriculum that teaches students the scientific principles that underpin learning success. This allows students to master evidence-based techniques and strategies specific to learning and memory, in addition to raising their metacognition to become more sophisticated and independent learners.

Train: develop skill and ability

Training involves drill and practice of cognitive exercises that adapt and evolve as skills improve, which is essential to improving one’s underlying skills. Improved ability is a prerequisite to better learning but insufficient in isolation.

Transfer: generalization to real-life

The transfer component of individualized programs ensures the generalization of cognitive gains to real-life in a way that ensures information is processed and learned more efficiently, effectively and independently, leading to a self-directed learner.

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