ABSTRACT

In 2015, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) and Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) were awarded a five-year grant as part of the Ready To Learn Television Grant Program, a school readiness and educational media initiative funded by the US Department of Education and Congress. In collaboration with UCLA’s National Center for Research on Evaluation, Standards, and Student Testing (CRESST), PBS KIDS has created the PBS KIDS Learning Analytics Platform to collect, store, and support the analysis of data gathered as children engage with media such as playing games and watching videos. The authors of this chapter are a blended interdisciplinary team from PBS KIDS and UCLA CRESST that represent content, product, technology, science, education, and data analysis expertise. The authors present evidence that gameplay can relate meaningfully to children's performance on standardized test items related to numbers and counting concepts. They use gameplay data to help identify the specific interactions that promote learning involving measurement concepts.