Built for Trust

The research behind the score.

The Writile Index is validated today. National norms for writing are what the consortium is building.

Built and tested over three years before any region joined — with IRB oversight from Liberty University, methodology led by EdTech by Design, and a manuscript headed to peer review.

The evidence base

Built and tested before a single region joined.

The framework was built and tested over three years on a full high-school dataset.

1,348
students
3,876
paired writing samples
~3 yrs
building & refining

That's why the consortium starts from evidence, and the study builds on it.

The three layers

Score, Standing, Profile.

What's measured today, and what the two-year study establishes.

Validated today
Score

The Writile Index measures writing reliably now, on the multi-year dataset above.

Being established
Standing

What a score means against a national population is what the consortium's norming establishes.

Refined over the study
Profile

Writer profiles sharpen as the population grows across the two-year study.

Reading and math have national growth norms. Writing doesn't have one yet. Building the first national norms for writing is what the two-year study is for.
Oversight & partners

Each part of the study has independent oversight.

Ethics review, methodology, publication, and infrastructure — each handled by a named institution.

Ethics
IRB oversight

Human-subjects review at Liberty University governs how the study is conducted.

Methodology
Psychometrics & norming

Led by EdTech by Design and Principal Investigator Dr. Traci Ramey — validation and norming design.

Publication
Peer review

A manuscript introducing the Revision Responsiveness Index is headed to peer review.

Convened with
AESA

The Association of Educational Service Agencies, connecting the consortium to ESA regions.

Infrastructure
AWS & Clever

Secure hosting on AWS; secure student rostering through Clever.

Category
Writing Intelligence

One framework, one scale — the same measure applied across every district.

Built with
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Trust in the AI era

One essay is a snapshot. A pattern over time is context.

Because Writile follows each writer from one writing task to the next, it builds a longitudinal writing signature — a picture of how a student's writing looks over time, in their own hand. Context worth having as authorship gets harder to read.

A longer view of the writer behind the writing.

Talk to us

Bring your questions to a first conversation.

Research design, data handling, participation, and fit for your region — a first conversation covers all of it.