Method for academic achievement

• US 20050048458A1
• Filed: 07/14/2004
• Published: 03/03/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 09/01/2000
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Douglas J. Collins, Steven P. Beaver
• Original Assignee: Douglas J. Collins, Steven P. Beaver
• Inventors: Collins, Douglas J., Beaver, Steven P.
• Application Number:
  US10/892,545
• Publication Number:
  US 20050048458A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 434/323
• CPC Class Codes: G09B 7/02 of the type wherein the student is expected to construct an answer to the question which is presented or wherein the machine gives an answer to the question presented by a student

Abstract

A method for facilitating academic improvement, comprising the steps of providing a database of students who have qualified for an academic improvement plan in at least one predefined content area, diagnostic testing of the students relating to their respective content area and recording in the database the diagnostic results of the testing in the database, developing and recording in the database at least one intervention strategy based in part upon the results of the diagnostic testing of the respective students or based in part on a standardized testing, monitoring and recording in the database each of the student'"'"'s respective progress and documenting in the database the successful completion of the academic improvement for each respective student.

Claims

1. A method for facilitating academic improvement, comprising the steps of:

providing a database of students who have qualified for an academic improvement plan in at least one predefined content area;

diagnostic testing of the students relating to their respective content area and recording in the database the diagnostic results of the testing in the database;

developing and recording in the database at least one intervention strategy based in part upon the results of the diagnostic testing of the respective students or based in part on a standardized testing;

monitoring and recording in the database each of the student'"'"'s respective progress; and

documenting in the database the successful completion of the academic improvement for each respective student.

2. The method as set forth in claim 1, wherein the step of providing a database of students who have qualified for an academic improvement plan in at least one predefined content area comprises at least one development area within predefined content areas.

3. The method as set forth in claim 2, wherein the step of monitoring and recording in the database each of the student'"'"'s respective progress comprises monitoring in the respective development area.

4. The method as set forth in claim 3, wherein the step of diagnostic testing of the students relating to their respective content area comprises diagnostic testing in their respective development area and recording in the database the diagnostic results of the testing in the database.

5. The method as set forth in claim 4, further comprising the step of managing and evaluating the implementation of the intervention strategies for the students by modifying the intervention strategies or developing additional intervention strategies as needed based upon the respective student'"'"'s progress in each development area and then recording each management activity in the database.

6. The method as set forth in claim 5, wherein the step of documenting in the database the successful completion of the academic improvement for each respective student includes each respective development area.

7. The method as set forth in claim 2, wherein the step of providing a database of students who have qualified for an academic improvement plan in at least one development area within at least one predefined content areas comprises the step of creating a working database of students, courses, teachers, schools, test scores and eligibility and building linkages therebetween.

8. The method as set forth in claim 7, wherein the step of building linkages among students, courses, teachers, schools, test scores and eligibility comprises the steps of obtaining information concerning the respective student'"'"'s demographics, student'"'"'s tests, student'"'"'s courses, teacher'"'"'s courses, teacher demographics and school controls.

9. The method as set forth in claim 8, wherein once the information is obtained, the information is linked to relate each teacher to a school, each teacher'"'"'s course to a teacher, each student to a school, each student to a teacher'"'"'s course and each test score to a student.

10. The method as set forth in claim 9, wherein the step of building linkages among students, courses, teachers, schools, test scores and eligibility comprises the steps of mapping courses to content areas.

11. The method as set forth in claim 9, wherein the step of building linkages among students, courses, teachers, schools, test scores and eligibility comprises the steps of identifying eligibility rules and for each, retrieving students that meet the eligibility rules and creating an eligibility relationship between student, test score, content area and eligibility reason.

12. The method as set forth in claim 6, further comprising the steps of creating import files from the working database containing the school'"'"'s control file, teacher'"'"'s course file, student'"'"'s file and student eligibility factors file and importing the import files into the database to load the school'"'"'s control file relating to the active school year and district and to load the teacher'"'"'s course file creating courses, and then associating courses to schools, creating teachers and associating teachers to courses.

13. The method as set forth in claim 2, further including the step of recording in the database the eligibility reason for each content area for each student who qualified for an academic improvement plan in at least one development area.

14. The method as set forth in claim 13, further including the step of providing means for viewing the eligibility reason for each student by the student'"'"'s teacher or the student'"'"'s administrator.

15. The method as set forth in claim 2, further including the step of providing means for viewing, updating or deleting the diagnostic testing result of the students in their respective development area by the student'"'"'s teacher or the student'"'"'s administrator.

16. The method as set forth in claim 2, further including the step of providing means for adding additional diagnostic testing results of the students in their respective development area and recording them in the database.

17. The method as set forth in claim 2, further including the step of providing means for viewing, updating or deleting the intervention strategies by the student'"'"'s teacher or the student'"'"'s administrator.

18. The method as set forth in claim 2, further including the step of providing means for adding additional intervention strategies for the students in their respective development area and recording them in the database.

19. The method as set forth in claim 2, wherein the step of developing intervention strategies for the students in their respective development area and recording them in the database comprises the selection of the intervention strategies from a list of available strategies.

20. The method as set forth in claim 1, further including the step of producing an intervention strategy letter for each student and recording the same in the database.

21. The method as set forth in claim 20, wherein the intervention strategy letter comprises a listing of the intervention strategy and teacher for each content area for the student.

22. The method as set forth in claim 21, wherein the intervention strategy letter is communicated to the parent or guardian of the student.

23. The method as set forth in claim 2, wherein the step of monitoring and recording in the database each of the student'"'"'s respective progress comprises the step of adding a progress update to the respective development area of the students.

24. The method as set forth in claim 2, wherein the step of monitoring and recording in the database each of the student'"'"'s respective progress comprises the step of viewing, updating or deleting the progress update to the development area for the students.

25. The method as set forth in claim 5, wherein the step of managing and evaluating the implementation of the intervention strategies for the students by modifying the intervention strategies or developing additional intervention strategies as needed based upon the respective student'"'"'s progress and then recording each management activity in the database comprises the steps of viewing, adding, updating or deleting the intervention strategies based upon the progress updates to the respective development area for the students.

26. The method as set forth in claim 5, wherein the step of managing and evaluating the implementation of the intervention strategies for the students by modifying the intervention strategies or developing additional intervention strategies as needed based upon the respective student'"'"'s progress and then recording each management activity in the database comprises the steps of viewing, adding, updating or deleting the intervention strategies based upon additional diagnostic testing of the students in their respective development area.

27. The method as set forth in claim 1, wherein the database is secured to allow access by teachers to only the records of the teacher'"'"'s students.

28. The method as set forth in claim 1, wherein the database is secured to allow access by school administrators to only the records of the students of the administrator'"'"' school.

29. The method as set forth in claim 1, wherein the database is secured to allow access by district administrators to only the records of the students of the administrator'"'"'s district.

30. The method as set forth in claim 1, further including the step of withdrawing a student from one school and registering the student in a new school allowing the academic improvement to be continued in the new school.

31. The method as set forth in claim 1, further including the step of maintaining teachers, teacher'"'"'s courses and administrators in the database.

32. The method as set forth in claim 1, further including the step of creating reports from the database listing information such as development areas by teachers, academic improvements by grade, content area by grade, academic improvement status, development areas and students by content area, development area by status, students by school and content area or students by school and grade for selected content areas.

33. The method as set forth in claim 1, wherein the database is server-based and accessible by teachers and administrators of the students.

34. The method as set forth in claim 1, wherein the database is web-enabled allowing access to the database via an intranet, extranet or the Internet.