Item banking system for standards-based assessment

• US 20090164406A1
• Filed: 08/07/2008
• Published: 06/25/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 08/07/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Assessment Technology, Inc. (Imagine Learning LLC (Arizona))
• Original Assignee: Assessment Technology, Inc. (Imagine Learning LLC (Arizona))
• Inventors: Cunningham, Scott, Nochumsun, Karyn, Bergan, John Robert, Benson, Brian
• Granted Patent: US 8,630,577 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 706/50
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/285 Clustering or classification
• 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

An computer item banking system for standards-based assessments has test items used in standards-based assessments wherein a plurality of item specifications are developed using a specification building feature to create new, edit, move, and delete specifications and to assign specifications to one or more standards; a plurality of test items are constructed and edited using a test building feature to specify the type of item being constructed, points available for the item, and the type of bank to which the item is assigned; bank types include agency-wide assessments including benchmark tests and end-of-course examinations, and formative assessments such as classroom quizzes. The system includes means for certification of test items and preventing use of uncertified test items to be used in agency-wide assessments under construction.

Claims

1. An item banking system for standards-based assessments including test items used in standards-based assessments comprising:

a plurality of item specifications developed using a specification building feature to create new, edit, move, and delete specifications and to assign specifications to one or more standards;

a plurality of test items constructed and edited using a test building feature to specify the type of item being constructed, points available for the item, and the type of bank to which the item is assigned;

bank types including agency-wide assessments including benchmark tests and end-of-course examinations, and formative assessments such as classroom quizzes;

certifications of test items; and

system protection for preventing use of not yet certified test items to be used in agency-wide assessments under construction.

2. An item banking system for standards-based assessments as claimed in claim 1 further including:

classification and mapping procedures that make it possible to efficiently map items to multiple sets of standards.

3. An item banking system for standards-based assessments as claimed in claim 2 wherein item specifications are then mapped to standards in multiple states.

4. An item banking system for standards-based assessments as claimed in claim 2 wherein an item and a specification can be mapped to only one class, and an item class can be mapped to only one standard within a given set of standards.

5. An item banking system for standards-based assessments as claimed in claim 4 wherein sets of items can be mapped to more than one standard when each standard is in a different set of standards.