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Next Generation PhET® Simulations
Next Generation PhET® Simulations
PhET + metacog™ data-enabled simulations.
The interactivity of PhET
Promote deep conceptual understanding
Engage in science inquiry practices
Use expert representations and models
Motivate interest in science and math
Engage in science inquiry practices
Use expert representations and models
Motivate interest in science and math
Playback
Playback learner’s solutions to understand how learners solved challenges. Are there any misconceptions or other problems?
Scoring
Create rubric based automated scoring of open ended sims to test not only what learners KNOW but what they can DO. Extend your CEPA’s
Metacog-Enabled PhET Simulations available now (with more on the way soon!)
What is the PhET + metacog partnership?
With the brilliant PhET simulations you have always had best-in-class interactive simulations for science and math. By adding metacog, PhET now brings you the ability to have data-enabled learning objects that can train the metacog machine learning system to rigorously score open ended-activities, let you visualize HOW and WHY they got it wrong (or right), what concepts they are missing and what process was followed. These new capabilities can generate new insights and discussions into metacognitive processes and support standards like Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS).
Score PhET-based activities and tasks automatically
PARCC, Smarter Balanced and Common Core standards enable much deeper assessment challenges to help college and career readiness and to develop complex 21st century problem-solving skills. NGSS also emphasizes evidence-based demonstration of procedural knowledge and cannot be practicably assessed utilizing multiple-choice automated scoring.
The problem is that there has been no ability (other than time-consuming hand-scoring) to score open ended challenges at scale that the new standards and guidelines enable. Enter metacog’s Invisible Integrated Assessment…
Educating the next generation of scientists, mathematicians and engineers
As students solve learning challenges, metacog can get incredibly fine grained information about student performances: how they think, how they approach difficult problems, whether they try very hard, or give up easily. We believe this type of information can replace the activity of stopping the learning process for testing.
What does metacog cost?
If you are looking for PhET’s free, un-instrumented simulations, visit phet.colorado.edu. As always, they remain available as an open educational resource.
The PhET + metacog bundle includes a full metacog license enabling you to create and instrument your own learning objects along with a license to use the new instrumented PhET simulations in conjunction with metacog services.
For more information on using metacog in your own projects go to: https://developer.metacog.com/
Your license of this bundle helps support continued availability and improvements of PhET simulations.
Researcher
Researchers, Developers & Datanauts
$1,098 / year
Online Support
Up to 350 learners
300 Data Retrieval calls/month
Includes license to enhanced PhET simulations
Standard
Assessors, Publishers, and Game Developers
$10,980 / year
Online Support
Up to 5000 Learners
300 Data Retrieval calls/month
Includes license to enhanced PhET simulations
Enterprise
Value pricing and volume based discounts
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Online Support
5000+ Learners
300 Data Retrieval calls/month
Includes license to enhanced PhET simulations
FAQ
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Data Privacy PolicyAs students solve learning challenges, metacog can obtain incredibly fine-grained information about student performances: how they are thinking about a problem, how they approach difficult problems, whether they try very hard, or give up easily.
We believe this type of information can replace the activity of stopping the learning for testing.We pledge to carry out responsible stewardship and appropriate use of student information. The Student Privacy Pledge includes accountabilty to:- Not sell student information
- Not behaviorally target advertising
- Use data for authorized education purposes only
- Enforce strict limits on data retention
- Support parental access to, and correction of errors in, their children’s information
- Provide comprehensive security standards
- Be transparent about collection and use of data.
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What type of data does metacog collect?
As users interact with the Services, metacog streams various types of process data based on interactions with a learning object. This data is limited to how learners solve challenges, and there is no personally identifiable information (PII), only keys representing anonymous users. We limit the data we collect to only what we believe is necessary to provide a better learning experience - process data on learning challenges.We do not ask Children, publishers, or assessment companies to submit Personally Identifiable Information. In unexpected instances we may unintentionally be sent persistent identifiers but these are anonymized and still secure and owned by the creators of the content, not metacog. -
Does metacog sell learner data?We do not collect, use, or share any personal learner Information from users. We do not rent or sell your learner process Information to anyone. We use it as necessary to provide the Services, to comply with laws or as instructed by you. This Privacy Policy does not limit our ability to use Non-Personal Data — anonymized data that cannot be associated with an individual — for business purposes, to provide better more valuable learning analytics, and to provide diagnostics services to our customers.There are optional ways we may use and share Information we collect from users who have created a metacog account. We will only do this with your permission.
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Why does metacog collect learner data?As students solve learning challenges, metacog can yield incredibly fine grained information about student performance behavior: how they think, how they approach difficult problems, whether they try very hard or give up easily. Metacog can inform learning guardians if a learner has misconceptions, and whether they are struggling or bored.
We believe this type of information can replace the activity of stopping the learning process for testing and massively improve the information intelligence we can provide to instructors to help them target their valuable time where and when it is most needed.The rich data streams generated by learners as they solve challenges can be used to understand not only how they came to their final answer, but also to assess the quality of the learning objects themselves and to more deeply understand where students are and what they should be doing next.
Learning products that are informed by metacog can help improve efficacy so that they contribute to deeper and more engaging learning experiences for their digital native learners. -
Can I incorporate metacog into existing products?Metacog was built to make it easy to instrument existing learning objects as well as brand new learning products. Visit our developer page for detailed documentation around the instrumentation toolkit we make available for data-enabling your products. After using metacog, customers find that they can build far richer learning products than ever before with the new capabilities the platform enables.
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I’m a developer - where do I find your API documentation?
Metacog maintains a separate developer site with documentation for the various metacog API’s. Visit www.developer.metacog.com to learn more. -
What is the cost of implementing metacog into my products?You can try metacog’s sandbox for free to see how it works. Metacog is built as a service that is very cost-effective compared to building and maintaining a highly performant Internet scale data infrastructure and platform and is value-priced based on volume. Metacog enables you to run the services you need at scale. If you are either a small or large organization that wants to self-serve and purchase metacog, information on API pricing can be found here.