IES Contract
Title: | Authoring Tools for High Quality Formative Assessments for Classroom Testing | ||
Center: | NCER | Year: | 2015 |
Principal Investigator: | Jha, Rajesh | Awardee: | SimInsights, Inc. |
Program: | Small Business Innovation Research [Program Details] | ||
Award Period: | 6 months (5/1/2015-10/31/2015) | Award Amount: | $147,211 |
Type: | Phase I Development | Award Number: | EDIES15C0017 |
Description: | The project team is developing and testing a prototype of PiGames, intended to be a game-based formative assessment system for physics. The prototype will include a curated collection of pre-existing assessments, authoring tools to create new assessments, a dashboard with progress monitoring, and teacher implementation support. In the Phase I pilot research with 6 classrooms and 180 high school students, the team will examine whether the prototype functions as planned, if teachers are able to implement it with students, and whether students are engaged. |
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