The goal of Socos is to literally make people smarter. We construct individualized models of how people think and then put these models, these virtual you’s, to work.
One of the most fundamental challenges in teaching is peering inside students' heads and figuring out what they're thinking. While education is a field rich with data, obtaining high-quality data and processing them meaningfully and efficiently remains difficult. Whether in formal classes, individualized tutoring, or casual web queries, learners continually generate questions, comments, proposals, discussions and a multitude of other assessable work. These constitute valuable assessment data for informing instructors’ professional judgment, but systematically analyzing them across multiple students and time-points demands attention and resources beyond what most teachers can spare. The quantity of possible data to track defies ambition. The vast majority is lost to any broader perspective for instructors, educational leaders, and decision-makers. Lessons go untried, assessments unvalidated, population trends undetected and teaching opportunities missed. Rather than constantly designing and administering new tests, education needs tools which can actually make intelligent use of existing data.
Cognitive Analytics
Using our Cognitive AnalyticsTM dashboard, a teacher can assign a lesson in-class or online, collect real-time analytics on student work, and use its intuitive visualizations to facilitate assessment and instruction. The dashboard displays learning trajectories for individual students over time and across domains by analyzing entire bodies of work. Student populations can be tracked across time and across classes. The value of specific lessons and interventions can be assessed in the context of the actual learning environment, from the level of individual students to complex subpopulations.
Adaptive Learning
The three co-founders of Socos have combined their expertise in Cognition, Education and Machine Learning to develop our core Cognitive AnalyticsTM platform. It combines a set of proprietary algorithms for discovering underlying causes for student judgments with our unique Cognitive GraphTM Technology for capturing relationships connecting ideas and thinkers. The graph infers core conceptual factors underlying domains from normative sources as well as the student's own work. These factors power the analytics, providing metrics of the actual semantic content of students' work, not just word counts or time on task. Using the Cognitive Graph, instructors can quickly and easily perceive unique patterns in the understanding of individual students on specific assignments, across assignments, across domains and across time. The Graph easily extends to groups of students, allowing automated discovery of trends within and across populations.
Educational Dataming
While education is a field rich with data, obtaining high-quality data and processing them meaningfully and efficiently remains difficult.
The team at Socos can advance your development projects with individually focused research in
- Text Mining
- Cognitive Modeling
- Multi-modality data analysis
Our consulting services offer our years of expertise for any large-scale analysis of your education-related data.