Einstein

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CertifiedEducation quality
02/2018
Einstein

Einstein

Costner
Working abilities
Einstein is an application for creating quizzes and questionnaires.

Einstein is an application for creating quizzes and questionnaires. Using Einstein, teachers and other professional experts can easily create various types of questions, including multiple choice questions, matching questions and visual questions. The students can also create quizzes for their peers and the students can collaborate on a quiz. Teachers can monitor student's progression and give real-time feedback to students through the Captain dashboard. Einstein also supports self evaluation.
Einstein can be used as a guest without logging in or the students can have a personal account.

Age groups 
Elementary
Middle school
High School
Tertiary Education
Price 
Subscription
Languages 
English
Finnish
icelandic
Platform 
Browser-based
Registration 
Required
Offline play 
Playable offline
Pictures
Pedagogy
Educational Quality
Learning Goals

The pedagogical analysis covers how the product supports learning of the identified skills. The student’s role is assessed by four contrary pair parameters, which are selected to cover the most essential aspects on the use of the product.

Passive
Active
Students are highly active as they answer to the quizzes - or in the ideal case, are also the ones who get to create the quizzes to their peers.
Rehearse
Construct
Einstein provides multiple answering mechanics from multiple choice to fill the missing words and open-ended questions. It is possible to share materials at the beginning of the quiz.
Linear
Non-linear/Creative
The answering process is linear as all the participants answer the quizzes in the same order.
Individual
Collaborative
Students answer the quizzes individually or by collaborating together with another student. Quizzes can be shared for others.

The following are the high educational quality aspects in this product.

Einstein is an easy to use tool for creating quizzes. It provides several different answering mechanics from multiple choice to open-ended questions.
It is possible to attach, pictures, files or videos as a background material before answering the questions.
Both teachers and students can create quizzes.
The teachers can access their old questions and create new quizzes out of them.

The supported learning goals are identified by matching the product with several relevant curricula descriptions on this subject area. The soft skills are definitions of learning goals most relevant for the 21st century. They are formed by taking a reference from different definitions of 21st century skills and Finnish curriculum.

Subject based learning goals

Practicing to observe and evaluate own learning processes.
Practicing to work independently.
Practicing to plan and organize learning processes.
Practicing time management.
Practicing to give and get constructive feedback.

Soft skills learning goals

Learning to recognise and evaluate arguments and their reasonings
Developing problem solving skills
Practicing to create questions and make justifiable arguments based on observations
Practicing to look things from different perspectives
Practicing to notice causal connections
Learning to build information on top of previously learned
Practicing to notice links between subjects learned
Practicing to give, get and reflect feedback
Practicing to evaluate one's own learning
Practicing to take responsibility of one's own learning

The Finnish Educational Quality Certificate

Our Quality Evaluation Method is an academically sound approach to evaluating a product’s pedagogical design from the viewpoint of educational psychology.

The method has been developed with university researchers and all evaluators are carefully selected Finnish teachers with a master's degree in education.

More about the evaluation