Online Formats Across SAT and IB Profiles: September 2026 Disclosure Review

Source grade & source class

How the evidence is classified

Note evidence grade

DATA NOTE

Source classes used

Shared directory source

Evidence Registry claims

claim.hagwonscale.live-online-management.2026-09

• Hakwon Scale — Shared directory source · Claim IDs: claim.hagwonscale.live-online-management.2026-09 · The dated 10-profile online-format count, one U.S.-time-zone disclosure, six-item 60-cell audit and five third-party-confirmed cells. Limitation: Fifty-five unconfirmed cells do not mean fifty-five failures. The count describes the limits of the reviewed public record, not the quality of a program.

Denominator · period · campus

Scope of the comparison

• Profiles disclosing an online format: 11 to 10, as of the August 31, 2026 data refresh. Profiles stating U.S. time zone live scheduling: 2 to 1.
• Management cells checked: 60 (10 profiles x 6 items). Documented in press: 5 (8.3%), all 5 belonging to a single profile.
• Makeup classes after an absence: 0 of 10 confirmed in any reviewed source, unchanged from the August round.

Establishes · does not establish

What the evidence can and cannot support

What it establishes

Of the 63 surveyed Korean SAT and IB academy profiles, 10 disclose an online format and 1 states U.S. time zone scheduling; across six between-class management items, 5 of the resulting 60 cells are documented in dated press, and makeup-class policy is confirmed at none of the 10.

What it does not establish

• "Online" is a label, not a format. Of the 10, five run online alongside in-person classes, three are online 1:1 matching, one is small-group online and one is recorded on-demand, and a recorded course has no time-zone schedule to convert at all. Confirm which of the four a course actually is before comparing.
• Fifty-five unconfirmed cells do not mean fifty-five failures. Only 1 of the 63 surveyed profiles has any verified press record, so the unconfirmed cells describe the limits of the public record, not the quality of a program. The list of questions to ask is six items long regardless of how many academies are on a shortlist.
• A verification grade and a management record are separate axes. The grade asks whether outcome figures and review samples are confirmable outside the academy; the 60-cell count asks whether between-class procedures are documented at all. A V4 self-published profile that can produce a written makeup policy and a sample parent report is giving more specific evidence than a grade alone conveys.