Our team of experienced instructional designers, writers, editors, digital learning experts, and project managers are able to work in collaboration with publishers to provide the expertise and services they need to accomplish their publishing goals.
Curriculum Design and Development
Assessment
Digital Learning
Design and Production
Translation
Curriculum Design and Development
Content remains king—regardless of the format or system of delivery. Our dedicated writers and editors are, first and foremost, educators. Many of them are current teachers. They hold Masters- or Doctoral-level degrees in education and in their content field of specialty. Our team has extensive experience in educational publishing and we know what it takes to make a successful program, from concept and prototype development to the final product in the hands of our students and teachers.
Our Curriculum Design and Development services include:
- Content and standard analysis
- Content mapping
- Scope and sequence
- Competitive analysis
- Prototyping and samples
- Guidelines and specifications
- Writing and editing
- Blended, collaborative, and game-based learning
- Proofreading and copyediting
- Error resolution and quality assurance
- Electronic workflows
- Correlations
- Project management
- Scheduling
Assessment
Based on our rich body of assessment development work, Tabula Rasa was selected in 2012 to develop the Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium’s first pilot test items in mathematics at Grs. 3–HS. Our team members have been living and breathing the Common Core ever since! And we continue to use that experience and our in-depth knowledge of the important strictures of Evidence-Centered Design to help publishers prepare our students for all manner of assessments.
Our Assessment services include:
- Test planning and blueprinting
- Traditional selected-response, constructed response, and extended response items
- Technology-enhanced items
- Performance Tasks
- Direct uploading and/or inputting into various Content Management Systems
- Curriculum-embedded performance assessments
- Formative and summative assessments
- State test prep
Digital Learning
Digital learning resources are being implemented in today’s classrooms in a variety of ways, with online lessons, tutorials, and assessments among the most prominent. These resources, along with electronic planners, report cards, and portfolios are supporting teachers and learners by providing real-time feedback on classroom performance. Our Digital Learning team, including SMEs, can help make such resources a reality!
Our Digital Learning services include:
- Metadata development, including HTML tagging, widget mapping, and data entry
- Quality assurance, including bug logging and fixes, and user-experience testing and reviews
- eBook conversions
- Flash to HTML5 conversions, via storyboarding
- LaTeX and MathML
- Audio editing
Design and Production
While Tabula Rasa has the experience and resources to help with the most cutting-edge digital projects, we’ve also got you covered on the print side, from blank pages to finished files. Our onshore team is proficient in all aspects of prepress textbook production and graphic design. We have the artists to create everything from the simplest tech art square to the most complicated full-screen illustrations.
Our Design and Production services include:
- Page production
- Design and layout
- Tech art and illustration creation and manipulation
- Photo research and permissions
- Digital asset management
- Content and XML conversion
- Text processing and typesetting
- Electronic file preparation
Translation
In addition to having the content expertise and experience, we’ve also got the ability to take both old and new English-based curriculum and translate it for native Spanish, French, and Arabic Speakers—using strategic partnerships with organizations well versed in providing translations for educational publishing.
Our Translation services include:
- English to Spanish
- English to French
- English to Arabic