Apprendis is structured around the promotion of student learning and support of educational assessment using technology. Principals of the firm euse ducational data mining techniques to assess students skill level. The, as students engage in learning, the firm's assessment metrics on students log data are engaged to provide real-time support. Anchored in work undertaken by the pricipals as part of the Worcester Polytechnic Institute's Learning and Science Technology program, the company's flagship product, Inq-ITS, uses performance assessment and data mined algorithms to provide real-time automatic and invisible assesment as students work in online labs. The product is designed to provide student's with feedback aimed at improving and supporting scientific inquiry skills. Apprendis develops educational tools for students and teachers in the areas of science and critical thinking. Their Inq-ITS platform is an intelligent tutoring system that aids middle school students in conducting virtual inquiries in Physical, Life, and Earth Sciences. Students form hypotheses, conduct experiments, and analyze their data, and then the system provides real-time formative metrics on student's individual progress and classroom-wide performance. Apprendis' teacher platform, InqBlotter, provides alerts to the teacher, enabling the teacher to respond and provide real-time feedback to the student.
