The Neurometrics Challenge

As Co-Chair of the X PRIZE Education & Global Development Advisory Group, Naveen Jain is working with experts in the promising field of neurometrics with the goal of revolutionizing education through a deeper understanding of how to measure and improve brain capacity, and ultimately creating better learners.

Up until now, the emphasis education reform has been on improving teachers, reducing class size, and improving curriculum, but the gap between the U.S. and other developed nations in reading, math, and science is proof that these efforts are not enough.



The challenge of neurometrics is to look beyond traditional classroom improvements and build better learners for our classrooms, endowing our students with all the capabilities they’ll need to thrive in this exciting new world. At the heart of this challenge is the development of a reliable, low-cost and scalable way to measure a student’s innate cognitive learning ability.

Once standard metrics are in place entrepreneurs will be able to compete amongst themselves to demonstrate measurable and substantial improvements in a student’s learning ability in the areas of attention, prediction, memory, processing speed, spatial skills, and executive functions.