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Mindspark - adaptive learning by Educational Initiatives (Ei)

📍 India · 2009 · Educational Initiatives (Ei)

Scale
local
subnational
national
systemic

Description

Adaptive learning software developed by Educational Initiatives (Ahmedabad; launched 2009) that diagnoses each student's actual level in mathematics and language and dynamically adjusts the content. Evaluated with an RCT in Delhi (Muralidharan, Singh and Ganimian, AER 2019): it improved scores across all groups (0.37 sigma in mathematics, 0.23 in Hindi in 4.5 months) and proved cost-effective. As of 2026, Ei reports 310,000+ students in India, South Africa, Zambia and Cambodia, with a two-year RCT underway led by IDinsight.

Linked evidence

Disrupting Education? Experimental Evidence on Technology-Aided Instruction in IndiaAmerican Economic Review 109(4):1426-1460; working paper NBER 22923 · 2019EvidenceMindspark: Improving Educational Outcomes in India (case study)Harvard Business School (copia alojada por Ei) · 2019Evidence