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Kognity — AI-enhanced adaptive digital textbooks for IB Diploma schools

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Evidence: Quasi-experimental Top 73% 40/100 · Ask Evidence Copilot about this practice

Stockholm EdTech platform used by 1 in 3 IB schools globally (2,000+ schools); combines AI-driven adaptive quizzes and real-time teacher analytics with full IB DP curriculum coverage; IB's only official digital-first publishing partner.

2,000+ schools
Schools served (as of 2024)
100+
Countries reached
1 in 3 IB schools globally
Share of IB schools using Kognity
90 %
Students reporting the platform helps achieve higher test scores (self-reported survey)
70 % greater improvement
Test-score improvement vs control group (IJRISS 2023 study)
Kognity — AI-enhanced adaptive digital textbooks for IB Diploma schools

Details

Maturity
Established
Promoter
Kognity AB
Period
2015–ongoing
Region (NUTS)
SE11
Keywords
education, edtech, digital curriculum

Context

Kognity was founded in Stockholm in 2015 by former IB Diploma students. The platform pairs complete IB DP curriculum content across all major subjects with AI-powered adaptive features: adaptive quizzes that adjust difficulty in real time, automated progress tracking, and a teacher dashboard for class- and student-level learning gaps. Kognity is the IB Organisation's only digital-first publishing partner and by 2024 served more than 2,000 schools in over 100 countries; it also supports Cambridge IGCSE curricula.

Results

Kognity's own survey reports that 90% of students say the platform helps them achieve higher test scores. The company also cites a peer-reviewed study (IJRISS, 2023) finding a 70% greater test-score improvement compared with a control group; however, IJRISS is an open-access journal of limited academic standing, and the result has not been independently replicated.

Conclusions

A material equity concern limits the platform's broader social impact: the IB Diploma Programme is predominantly offered at fee-paying private schools and selective state schools, concentrating Kognity's benefits on comparatively advantaged learner cohorts, and no subsidised or free-access scheme for under-resourced schools has been publicly announced. Within the IB school cohort, replacing expensive printed textbooks with a standardised digital platform represents a meaningful if circumscribed form of equity.

Implementation
Indicative cost
Medium (€50k–€500k) — Commercial subscription platform; specific pricing not disclosed in sourced content.
Time to results
Long (> 3 years) — Founded 2015; mature, decade-long commercial deployment as of 2024/2025.
Staffing & skills
Kognity AB product and engineering team (Stockholm), Subject-matter content authors aligning material to IB DP and Cambridge IGCSE curricula, School-side teachers using the teacher dashboard for progress tracking

Conditions for success

  • Schools already delivering the IB Diploma Programme or Cambridge IGCSE, which the platform is built around
  • Teacher uptake of the analytics dashboard to identify per-student learning gaps
  • Willingness/budget to pay for the commercial platform in place of printed textbooks

Common failure modes

  • IB DP is predominantly offered at fee-paying private or selective state schools, concentrating benefits on already-advantaged learners; no subsidised or free-access scheme exists
  • Key impact claim (70% greater test-score improvement) comes from IJRISS, an open-access journal of limited academic standing, and has not been independently replicated
  • AI adaptive engine and data-processing have not been independently audited or publicly documented

Where it fits

Governance type
commercial EdTech vendor, IB Organisation's sole digital-first publishing partner
Scale
2,000+ schools in 100+ countries
Income level
mixed (concentrated in fee-paying/selective schools)

Commonly funded by

Own resources / municipal budget

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