I created Tutorised to solve a practical problem I faced as a special education teacher. I assessed students’ learning difficulties using pen-and-paper tests and spent hours manually checking answers. Each core skill was assessed separately, making it hard to form a comprehensive view of students’ abilities. The data was fragmented across schools and stored on paper, making it nearly impossible to compare results across students, classes, schools, and municipalities.
While I could assess individual students’ reading skills with a single test, this approach did not scale. Aggregating data across classes, schools, and municipalities would have required manually collecting and standardising results from different sources, making it difficult to analyse data at scale and to manage it securely and responsibly. The process was resource-intensive and difficult to manage.
I saw a clear opportunity to help teachers and education providers make data-driven decisions that improve students’ learning and ensure every learner gets the support they need. We created Tutorised to replace fragmented, time-consuming assessments with a clearer and more reliable approach. It identifies learning gaps and strengths in real time so support can be provided immediately based on accurate, accessible data. This helps identify difficulties earlier, recognise advanced learners, and ensure fair and timely support so no student is overlooked.
In practice, students complete tasks online, and the system automatically analyses results and generates reports at the individual, class, school, and system levels. The tasks can be repeated over time, making it possible to track how skills develop.
Students receive targeted support based on their needs. Teachers use this information to identify learning gaps, group students, and adapt instruction.
School leaders and municipalities use aggregated data to guide resource allocation and planning. Guardians can see how their child’s skills compare to national averages and support learning at home.
Tutorised also includes learning games that target specific skill gaps identified in the assessments. These are part of the same system, reinforcing learning while enabling ongoing monitoring of progress.
Tutorised has scaled through school- and municipal-level adoption in Finland, a country recognised for strong performance in international assessments such as PISA. It is used in several of the country’s largest cities and has expanded internationally into the Middle East and Asia. To date, Tutorised has delivered over one million individual assessments and supports more than 50,000 students annually. While its core focus is K–12 education, the platform has also been extended to pre-primary and adult learning contexts where relevant.
Tutorised began with reading assessment (decoding and text comprehension) and has since expanded to include writing, language comprehension, and mathematics. It now also includes executive function measures, specifically working memory, shifting, and inhibition, which are key predictors of academic performance and essential for attention, problem-solving, and self-regulated learning. Together, these assessments provide a comprehensive view of each learner’s development and enable teachers to deliver targeted, effective support.
As teachers sought ways to act on results, Tutorised expanded beyond assessment to include targeted learning games. These support the development of reading, language, and mathematics skills, enabling a shift from measurement to targeted intervention.
Tutorised is now extending its capabilities to assess spoken language, particularly for second language learners, and developing machine learning–based methods to better understand learning patterns and individual trajectories at scale. In parallel, the team has grown from two to eight members.
You can request a free trial at www.tutorised.com. Alternatively, you can contact us at info@tutorised.com to request access or a brief introduction to the service. The platform is designed to be easy to implement for schools while also supporting larger-scale use across municipalities and education providers.
