March 31, 2022

50: Authentic Inquiry Experiences and Real-Time Feedback in Science, Inquiry Intelligent Tutoring System (Inq-ITS) with CEO and Co-Founder, Janice Gobert

38 minutes

Overview

In this episode, I got to chat with the amazing Janice Gobert, CEO, and Co-founder of Inq-ITS. She is also a Professor of Learning Sciences at Rutgers University. Janice speaks of all her many education travels and how Inq-ITS came to life. Janice drops tons of knowledge bombs about assessment and feedback in this episode so be sure to grab your notebook or pull up your preferred note-taking app to capture all this info! Thanks for listening!

More about Dr. Janice Gobert

Dr. Janice Gobert (Ph.D., Cognitive Science, University of Toronto) is an esteemed science education expert with over 25 years of experience and has executed over $25M in federal research funding. Dr. Gobert is also the CEO of a start-up company, Inq-ITS (www.inqits.com). As students engage in scientific inquiry, Inq-ITS uses patented AI algorithms to assess and scaffold in real-time all science practices, including their writing about science. Teachers get real-time reports and actionable alerts on their students’ performance, allowing them to change whole class instruction on the fly, do differentiated instruction, or support students 1:1.

Janice is a Professor of Learning Sciences and Educational Psychology in the Graduate School of Education at Rutgers University. Before joining Rutgers, she was the Co-Director of the Learning Sciences and Technologies graduate program at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (2005-2015), and a Senior Research Scientist at the Concord Consortium (1999-2005).

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