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February 5, 2014 05:15 pm GMT
When Citelighter first emerged in the fall of 2011, the education startup was on an ambitious mission to help students take the pain out of online research. With the enormous amount of content on the Web, students struggle to keep track of and manage bibliographical data and relevant links that are so critical to completing research papers and homework assignments. Building out a giant learning database and browser extension, Citelighter worked to create an academic research platform that would make it easy for students to manage resources, cite online and offline content and quickly create an accurate bibliography. By searching its database of knowledge cards, students could use Citelighter to quickly find relevant materials, while teachers could encourage their classes to use its bibliography tools to prevent against plagiarism. Today, however, with $1.5 million from a laundry list of venture firms and angel investors, Cightlighter is fueling up for a change course — a move which will take down a road that has potentially even more interesting (and ambitious) implications. Having gathered a sizable and unique data set on the habits, preferences and behaviors of students as they navigate the academic research and writing process, Cightlighter is looking to leverage this information (and build on it) with the goal of giving teachers greater insight into the work habits and cognitive footprints of their students. While that may sound a little opaque or dubious, simply put, Citelighter wants to tackle the problem of writing proficiency in the U.S. educational system and, by giving teachers tools to help them better understand how students write, help improve writing proficiency across the board. The size and extent of the problem, say co-founders Saad Alam and Lee Joki, can be found in the most recent National Assessment of Educational Progress’ survey of writing skills. The study found that only 24 percent of high schools seniors in the U.S. can write at a proficient level and only 3 percent at an advanced level. This means that 73 percent of graduating seniors across the U.S. educational system enter the work force without the requisite skills or the ability to write proficiently. To address this problem, Citelighter is attempting to map out the exact steps that each individual student takes throughout the writing process, using its platform to capture and visualize that data in an effort to help teachers and students learn more efficiently. The co-founders say that,
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With $1.5M Under Its Belt, Citelighter Hatches An Ambitious Plan To Help Fix The Writing Problem In American Education
When Citelighter first emerged in the fall of 2011, the education startup was on an ambitious mission to help students take the pain out of online research. With the enormous amount of content on the Web, students struggle to keep track of and manage bibliographical data and relevant links that are so critical to completing research papers and homework assignments. Building out a giant learning database and browser extension, Citelighter worked to create an academic research platform that would make it easy for students to manage resources, cite online and offline content and quickly create an accurate bibliography. By searching its database of knowledge cards, students could use Citelighter to quickly find relevant materials, while teachers could encourage their classes to use its bibliography tools to prevent against plagiarism. Today, however, with $1.5 million from a laundry list of venture firms and angel investors, Cightlighter is fueling up for a change course — a move which will take down a road that has potentially even more interesting (and ambitious) implications. Having gathered a sizable and unique data set on the habits, preferences and behaviors of students as they navigate the academic research and writing process, Cightlighter is looking to leverage this information (and build on it) with the goal of giving teachers greater insight into the work habits and cognitive footprints of their students. While that may sound a little opaque or dubious, simply put, Citelighter wants to tackle the problem of writing proficiency in the U.S. educational system and, by giving teachers tools to help them better understand how students write, help improve writing proficiency across the board. The size and extent of the problem, say co-founders Saad Alam and Lee Joki, can be found in the most recent National Assessment of Educational Progress’ survey of writing skills. The study found that only 24 percent of high schools seniors in the U.S. can write at a proficient level and only 3 percent at an advanced level. This means that 73 percent of graduating seniors across the U.S. educational system enter the work force without the requisite skills or the ability to write proficiently. To address this problem, Citelighter is attempting to map out the exact steps that each individual student takes throughout the writing process, using its platform to capture and visualize that data in an effort to help teachers and students learn more efficiently. The co-founders say that,Original Link: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/JX5w76EdfyM/
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