Imagine you know, before you Ask, "How did your day go?"

MetaCog Reports reveal your child's learning process:

Educational Learning Objects give parents and teachers immediate feedback on the child's experience as a learner. This is different than knowing whether the child picked up the content taught and includes those measures as well. MCAS results assess the school's ability to teach content to all learners, different again from your child's learning profile and skills to help him/her learn how to understand.

 
Tools like these can keep track of the significant milestones your child achieves and help you know when your child is far ahead or significantly delayed.  

Tools like these can keep track of the significant milestones your child achieves and help you know when your child is far ahead or significantly delayed.  

Against teaching to the test 

“Multiple choice wires your brain to pick an answer rather than have an original thought”

— Neil DeGrasse Tyson, Astrophysicist

Digital age of education

"As educational leaders develop interactive learning objects (ILOs) that can measure and support learning of the procedural knowledge emphasized in these updated standards, a critical question arises.  Within these ILOs, how do we measure where students are in the progression of problem solving skill, unobtrusively, in a way that scales to thousands of students(not relying on individual human grading on each item)?"

 
Kid's can perform simulated experiments and be assessed as he/she interacts with events.  

Kid's can perform simulated experiments and be assessed as he/she interacts with events.  

Simulations = models of the world

"The new interoperable PhET simulations provide the amazing learner experience for which PhET is known - and generate staggering amounts of rich data about how learners interact with the simulations. metacog can ingest the data from millions of students using the PhET simulations to provide real-time formative feedback to teachers, professors, and learners. It's now possible to replace the junk-food diet of pure multiple-choice testing with a balanced diet including engaging performance assessments - without burdening educators with hand-grading."

Jul 21, 2015 http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/phet-interactive-simulations-and-metacog-announce-partnership-to-offer-next-generation-simulations-with-advanced-scoring-analytics-api-300116029.html

Metacognitive definition

"Metacognition" is often simply defined as "thinking about thinking."

For example, after reading a paragraph in a text a learner may question herself about the concepts discussed in the paragraph. Her cognitive goal is to understand the text. Self-questioning is a common metacognitive comprehension monitoring strategy. 

Jennifer Livingston 1997

http://gse.buffalo.edu/fas/shuell/cep564/metacog.htm