SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ASSESSING STUDENT PROGRESS AND DELIVERING APPROPRIATE CONTENT

• US 20080038705A1
• Filed: 07/13/2007
• Published: 02/14/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 07/14/2006
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Dreambox Learning, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Dreambox Learning, Inc.
• Inventors: Seery, Jennifer, Kerns, Daniel, Slivka, Benjamin, Weary, Mickelle, Green, Nigel, Leban, Roy
• Application Number:
  US11/777,984
• Publication Number:
  US 20080038705A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 434/309
• CPC Class Codes: G09B 7/08 characterised by modifying the teaching programme in response to a wrong answer, e.g. repeating the question, supplying further information

Abstract

Embodiments of the present invention disclose an educational system that delivers educational content/instruction to students in the form of lessons, and techniques embodied in the educational system to assess student/learner progress within and between lessons and to deliver appropriate content to students. Advantageously, the educational system maps lessons and lesson content to items in a standards hierarchy, thus allowing a snapshot showing how the student is doing compared with the standards to be taken at any time

Claims

1. A method comprising;

defining a plurality of learning objectives;

defining a plurality of micro-objectives, each relating to a particular learning objective; and

providing a lessen to a client system, the lesson comprising a sequence of problems each having associated therewith one of said micro-objectives, the micro-objectives for at least some of the problems being different.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the sequence of problems comprises choices for problems selectable by a student.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein the problems that are selected are generated automatically based on the different micro-objectives.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein problems, associated with a given micro-objective, are interspersed in the sequence with problems associated with other micro-objectives.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein at least some of the problems have more than one micro-objective associated therewith.

6. The method of claim 1, further comprising generating an assessment for the lesson, the assessment comprising a score for each micro-objective biased upon the problems associated with the micro-objective.

7. The method of claim 6, wherein the score is based on an evaluation of factors relating to how the problems were answered, the factors being selected from the group consisting of a time spent answering each problem, an overall time spent on the lesson, and a measure of a correctness of responses associated with the problems.

8. The method of claim 6, further comprising mapping the score for each micro-objective to standards set by a standards authority to provide an assessment of said standards.

9. The method of claim 8, further comprising providing a report on a student'"'"'s performance in terms of the standards.

12. The method of claim 9, further comprising ranking the available lessons based on relevance to the student.

13. The method of claim 12, wherein relevance to the student is based on the assessment.

10. A method comprising:

defining a plurality of learning objectives;

defining a plurality of micro-objectives, each relating to a particular learning objective;

defining a plurality of lessons;

assigning a requirement to each lesson to control an availability of the lesson to a student;

forming an assessment of the student comprising a score for each micro-objective; and

based on the assessment, determining which lessons are available to the student; and

providing a sequence of lessons for the student based on the available lessons to a client system

11. The method of claim 10, wherein the sequence comprises choices for lessons that are selectable by the student.

14. The method of claim 10, wherein providing the sequence of lessons comprises selecting the lessons ranked as relevant.

15. The method of claim 10, wherein the requirement comprises a maximum and a minimum which define a range for a student'"'"'s micro-objective score

16. The method of claim 10, wherein the sequence of lessons defines a partially ordered set.

17. A system, comprising:

a lesson database comprising a plurality of lessons, each lesson having associated therewith at least one learning objective, the each learning objective having associated therewith at least one micro-objective;

a student assessment engine to calculate an assessment for a student comprising a score for each micro-objective

a lesson sequencing engine to provide a sequence of lessons for the student to a client system based on the assessment, said sequence of lessons defining a partially ordered set; and

a lesson delivery engine to deliver the sequence of lessons to the client system.

18. The system of claim 17, wherein the sequence comprises choices for the lessons that are selectable by the student.

19. The system of claim 17, wherein the sequence of lessons comprises lessons determined to be relevant to the student based on the assessment.

20. The system of claim 17, wherein the sequence of lessons is periodically updated based on updates to the assessment the lesson delivery engine then delivering the updated sequence.

21. The method of claim 17, further comprising a reporting engine to provide a report wherein the assessment is mapped to standards defined by a standards Authority.

22. A computer readable medium having stored thereon a sequence of instructions which when executed by a processor cause the processor to execute a lesson, comprising:

providing a sequence of problems each having associated therewith at least one micro-objective to a client system, the micro-objectives for at least some of the problems being different, and each micro-objective relating to a particular learning objective; and

generating an assessment corresponding to the lesson, the assessment comprising a score for each micro-objective based upon the problems associated with the micro-objective.

23. The computer readable medium of claim 22, wherein the sequence, comprises choices for the problems that are selectable by a student.

24. A method comprising:

storing a knowledge taxonomy in a database, the taxonomy comprising multiple levels of objectives with a lowest level;

presenting instruction to a student in the form of at least one lesson;

forming an assessment of a learner'"'"'s grasp of the instruction by assessing the lowest-level objectives associated with the lesson;

providing a report for the student, the report comprising the assessment of the lowest-level objectives.

25. The method of claim 24, further comprising providing an assessment of the learner in terms of a standard by mapping the assessment of the lowest-level objectives to the standard.

26. The method of claim 25, further comprising predicting a test score based on the assessment.

27. The method of claim 26, wherein the test is a standardized test.

28. The method of claim 25, wherein the score is presented as a value selected from the group consisting of a raw score, an adjusted score, a percentile, state percentile, and a country percentile.

29. A method, comprising:

providing at least one lesson for a student, the lesson having at least one problem and instructional information associated with the problem;

forming an assessment of the student; and

controlling whether to present the instructional information associated with a problem, based on the assessment.

30. The method of claim 29, wherein the lesson is executed on a client system and takes the form of a game to be played by the student.

31. The method of claim number 29, wherein the assessment is performed periodically during execution of the lesson.

32. The method of claim 29, wherein the assessment is based on micro-objectives associated with the lesson.