Helping learners understand how they learn
METY Foundation develops educational programs and tools that help learners, families, and educators better understand learning needs — free, research-based, and available without unnecessary barriers.
Start a Free Self-Assessment →Free Student Self-Assessments
Students can choose a subject, grade level, topic, and language and complete a self-assessment designed to help them reflect on different dimensions of their understanding. Rather than providing only a score, METY helps students think about what they know and where they may need additional attention. Students can begin without creating an account and can print, email, or save their results depending on how they choose to use the platform.
Try a self-assessment →Family Learning Support
Parents and guardians can use METY to better understand their child's learning activity and areas where additional support may be useful. Parent accounts are designed to allow families to manage child profiles, review learning activity, and control appropriate access to educational records. Our goal is to help families support learning without turning every study session into another test.
Learn about parent access →Educator Support
Teachers can use METY to gain a clearer picture of what students understand beyond a simple right-or-wrong result. With appropriate authorization and parental consent where required, educators can connect with students and review learning records available to them. This can help educators identify patterns in student understanding and provide more targeted learning support.
Learn about teacher access →Multilingual Educational Access
Learning support is most useful when students can engage with it in a language they understand. METY allows learners to select their preferred language as part of the self-assessment process. The platform can identify an appropriate assessment, translate an available assessment where needed, or prepare one for the selected topic. By reducing language barriers, METY Foundation aims to make educational resources more accessible to learners around the world.
Our Approach to Learning
Learning is more than remembering.
METY's self-assessment approach asks learners to think about four different dimensions of knowledge.
Facts
What information should you remember?
Identify the essential “what” of your subject: the characters, variables, dates, or concepts that form the foundation of your knowledge.
Strategies
What methods/tricks should you know?
Learn the general “how”: the overarching plot sequences, problem-solving methods, or historical structures used to reach a goal.
Procedures
What steps should you follow?
Break down your strategy into specific, actionable steps, from the order of operations in an equation to the sequence of events in a story.
Reasons
Why do these concepts work?
Go beyond the surface to discover “why”: the reasons behind a character’s goals, an author’s purpose, or the mathematical properties that make it all work.
METY uses these dimensions to help learners move beyond “Did I get the answer right?” toward “What do I actually understand, and what should I work on next?” This four-part structure is already central to METY's current learning experience.
Why Self-Assessment Matters
A score can tell a student whether something was right or wrong. It does not always explain why.
A learner may remember a fact but not understand the reason behind it. Another learner may understand the concept but struggle with the procedure required to solve a problem. METY's approach is designed to help make those differences visible.
When students can recognize their own knowledge gaps, they can make better decisions about what to review, what to practice, and where to ask for help. That is the learning behavior METY Foundation seeks to encourage.
Grounded in Educational Research
METY Foundation's approach is informed by published research on self-assessment and Cognitive Structure Analysis (CSA). Cognitive Structure Analysis is an approach for examining what a learner knows rather than relying exclusively on whether the learner produces a correct answer.
METY's current Research section includes 37 selected publications specifically related to self-assessment and CSA, drawn from Dr. John Leddo's broader body of educational research. The research spans topics including mathematics, reading comprehension, science, history, psychology, health education, and adaptive educational technology. Recent studies also examine the use of self-assessment and remediation across students in multiple countries and grade levels.
Explore our research →