AUTOMATIC EDUCATION ASSESSMENT SERVICE
First Claim
1. A method for performing educational assessment of one or more students each of which has an educational plan, comprising:
- A. storing educational assessment definitions in an assessment repository;
B. generating an educational assessment with one of the educational assessment definitions, wherein the one educational assessment uniquely corresponds to an individual student with an educational plan;
C. printing a form corresponding to the one educational assessment, wherein, pursuant to administering the educational assessment form to a student, free form marks are added to the educational assessment form;
D. responsive to administering the educational assessment form to the individual student, scanning the completed administered educational assessment form to capture the free form marks;
E. generating educational assessment data from the captured free form marks;
F. storing the educational assessment data;
G. evaluating the educational assessment data to optimize the educational plan of the individual student.
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Abstract
A method and system for automatically helping a teacher/educator evaluate assessments administered to students for determining student'"'"'s attributes. The teacher/educator reviews stored assessment forms at a digital user interface (DUI) at a multifunction device (MFD) and selects the desired forms and creates an Assessment Batch which includes a List of Students to be given the forms for marking. The system automatically codes each form with personalized student information and prints the individualized assessment forms. The system may include an assessment repository for storing assessment definitions, rubrics, and administered assessments (e.g., results sheets), an may additionally or alternatively include an assessment analyzer for interpreting scanned imaged of administered assessments. The teacher/educator administers the assessment and assessment forms are manually marked, collected and scanned at the MFD, entered into storage and the marked images automatically analyzed and the assessments automatically evaluated from stored rubrics and the teacher/educator is automatically notified by email that the evaluation has been performed. The system enables the teacher/educator to review the evaluations remotely and validate/annotate the evaluation and update the records in storage. The Assessment Batch may be created for a list of students in a group, a class, a grade level, a school, a plurality of schools and students in a geographical area.
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18 Claims
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1. A method for performing educational assessment of one or more students each of which has an educational plan, comprising:
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A. storing educational assessment definitions in an assessment repository; B. generating an educational assessment with one of the educational assessment definitions, wherein the one educational assessment uniquely corresponds to an individual student with an educational plan; C. printing a form corresponding to the one educational assessment, wherein, pursuant to administering the educational assessment form to a student, free form marks are added to the educational assessment form; D. responsive to administering the educational assessment form to the individual student, scanning the completed administered educational assessment form to capture the free form marks; E. generating educational assessment data from the captured free form marks; F. storing the educational assessment data; G. evaluating the educational assessment data to optimize the educational plan of the individual student. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13)
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14. An educational assessment system comprising:
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an educational assessment repository module for storing educational assessment definitions; an educational assessment module for generating an educational assessment with one of the educational assessment definitions, wherein the one educational assessment uniquely corresponds to an individual student with an educational plan; a printer for producing a form corresponding to the one educational assessment, wherein, pursuant to administering the educational assessment form to the individual student, free form marks are added to the educational assessment form; a scanner for capturing the free form marks from the educational assessment form administered to the individual student; an educational assessment analysis module communicating with said educational assessment repository module, said educational assessment analysis module both generating educational assessment data corresponding to the captured free form marks and evaluating the educational assessment data to optimize the educational plan of the individual student. - View Dependent Claims (15, 16, 17, 18)
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