Progress Monitoring in Primary Education using Levumi: A Case Study

We present, as a case study, the web-based platform Levumi that enables teachers to easily monitor learning progressions of children with a focus on elementary skills in reading, writing, and mathematics. Curriculum-based measurements are used that can be administered economically in short time and - in many parts - in parallel for multiple children. The system is built around exchanging data between schools and educational research, such that data with high ecological validity can be collected anonymously in order to gain insights into learning processes and in turn offer improved tests for teachers. For this case study, the acceptance and use of the platform over the last years is evaluated with a focus on tests for reading abilities. The results show how that many users are integrating the system in their daily teaching, learning progressions can be assessed and that the data is even usable for validation purposes.