The Future of Thinking.
immersionED's immersive learning experiences are demonstrating measurable outcomes across four pillars of student growth.
The Four Pillars
The Challenge
Why These Four Pillars Matter
Employers aren't satisfied with the graduates they're getting — more than half of leaders (56%) say entry-level employees are unprepared because they lack soft skills.* Colleges and the workforce are demanding graduates who can think critically, communicate persuasively, collaborate across differences, and adapt. These are real-world competencies, and the gap is widening.
Yet most schools lack the tools to develop and credibly measure these skills alongside traditional academic outcomes. immersionED closes that gap — with evidence that satisfies educators, administrators, and families.
*General Assembly, State of Entry-Level Hiring 2025
Outcomes Across the Four Pillars
Evidence of what immersive simulations make possible
Pillar 01
Academic Mastery
Students show growth in content knowledge and AP-aligned academic skills — including contextualization, argumentation, and making connections.
Pillar 02
Real-World Competencies
Students develop durable skills that support college, career, and workforce readiness — with 16 of 17 (94%) sub-skills in a nationally recognized competency framework showing significant improvement.
Pillar 03
Social-Emotional Learning
Students demonstrate growth in empathy, perspective-taking, collaboration, and self-awareness — the foundations of human-centered decision-making.
Pillar 04
Engagement
93.7% of student messages are substantively on-task. Students persist, complete simulations, and come back — at rates that outperform typical EdTech benchmarks.
Marten Roorda
Former CEO of ACT and Senior Advisor of Measurement at immersionED
immersionED is a real game-changer. Simulations change dynamically and keep measurements very reliable — that's quite an achievement. Unlike many other AI companies, immersionED is grounded in real psychometrics and research. This is the future.
Pillar 01
Academic Mastery
Students show measurable growth in content knowledge and AP-aligned academic skills, including contextualization, argumentation, and making connections.
Strongest Gains
Scores generated by immersionED's AI scoring engine against the publicly available AP US History course framework. Not official AP exam scores. AP and Advanced Placement are trademarks registered by the College Board, which was not involved in and does not endorse this analysis.
Pillar 02
Real-World Competencies
Students develop durable skills that support college, career, and workforce readiness — with top gains in communication, logic, and dialogue.
Strongest Gains
Pillar 03
Social-Emotional Learning
Students demonstrate growth in empathy, perspective-taking, collaboration, and self-awareness. SEL growth is detectable early and continues with repeated use.
Strongest Gains
Pillar 04
Engagement
Across 11,809 students, 209+ schools, and 42,196 simulations, students aren't just logging in — they're engaging deeply, persisting through challenges, and coming back. An analysis of 3,200 student messages confirms it.
Explore the Evidence
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Context for the Numbers
Three fair questions about any research claim.
01 Are the gains actually meaningful?
Yes: 1.2–2.4× the growth of a typical classroom intervention.
d ≈ 0.20
Typical classroom intervention
industry benchmark (Kingston & Nash, 2011)
d = 0.24–0.48
immersionED
across all three frameworks
Cohen’s d across all three frameworks; growth statistically significant on every one (all p < .001). Benchmark: Kingston & Nash, 2011.
02 Did this happen under lab conditions?
No: in real classrooms, on normal school days, at scale.
2,227
students
5,586
simulations
790
with 3+ simulations
209+
schools
No researcher-run sessions and no controlled conditions; teachers ran these themselves. Formal university-led research is now underway.
03 Can an AI be trusted to score this?
Yes: it scored as reliably as trained expert teachers.
37 of 39 (95%)
Preferred in blind review
items where expert teachers rated the AI’s scoring at or above their own peers’
0.883 vs. 0.856
As reliable as expert teachers
agreement with the expert panel: the AI, versus the teachers’ own
Blind study on an independent third-party competency framework; 3 expert teachers, 39 items, 312 ratings. Agreement measured as quadratic weighted kappa against expert consensus (non-inferiority p = .021). A larger validation study is underway.