SimInsights, Inc. — Department of Education SBIR Phase I: edIES15R0005

SimInsights, Inc. — SBIR Phase I award from Department of Education.

Amount
$147,211
Agency
Department of Education
Program / Phase
SBIR · Phase I
Topic
edIES15R0005
NAICS
Place of performance
CA
Period
2015-05-01 → 2015-11-01

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.