Methods and systems for using management of evaluation processes based on multiple observations of and data relating to persons performing a task to be evaluated

• US 20120210252A1
• Filed: 10/11/2011
• Published: 08/16/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 10/11/2010
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Teachscape Incorporated (Roper Technologies, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Teachscape Incorporated (Roper Technologies, Inc.)
• Inventors: Fedoseyeva, Inna, Stowe, Jonathan W.
• Application Number:
  US13/317,225
• Publication Number:
  US 20120210252A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/753
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/06398 Performance of employee with respect to a job function

Abstract

In one embodiment, a computer implemented method for facilitating performance evaluation of a task by one or more observed persons comprises: creating an observation workflow associated with the performance evaluation of the task by the one or more observed persons and stored on a memory device; associating a first observation to the workflow, the observation comprising any one of a direct observation, a multimedia captured observation, and a walkthrough survey; providing, through a user interface of a first computer device, a list of selectable steps to a first user, wherein each step is a step to be performed to complete the first observation; receiving a step selection from the first user selecting one or more steps from the list of selectable steps; associating a second user to the workflow; and sending a first notification of the one or more steps to the second user through the user interface.

Claims

1. A computer implemented method for facilitating performance evaluation of a task by one or more observed persons, the method comprising:

creating an observation workflow associated with the performance evaluation of the task by the one or more observed persons and stored on a memory device;

associating a first observation to the workflow, the first observation comprising any one of a direct observation of the performance of the task, a multimedia captured observation of the performance of the task, and a walkthrough survey of the performance of the task;

providing, through a user interface of a first computer device, a list of selectable steps to a first user, wherein each step is a step to be performed to complete the first observation;

receiving a step selection from the first user selecting one or more steps from the list of selectable steps;

associating a second user to the workflow; and

sending a first notification of the one or more steps to the second user through the user interface.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

assigning a completion date to the first selected step.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the first notification sent to the second user comprises a request to perform an action associated with the step.

4. The method of claim 3, further comprising:

providing a step interface to the second user for entering or uploading content associated with the selected one or more steps,

wherein the requested action is submitting of content associated with the selected one or more steps.

5. The method of claim 3, further comprising:

sending a second notification to the first user when the requested action is performed.

6. The method of claim 5, wherein the second notification sent to the first user comprises a request to perform another action associated with the one or more steps.

7. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

providing an interface for the second user to schedule an additional step to be associated with the observation workflow.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein the list of selectable steps comprises at least one pre-observation step, at least one observation session step, and at least one post observation step.

9. The method of claim 1 further comprising:

displaying the first notification and notifications from another workflow on one screen on a display device.

10. The method of claim 1 further comprising:

associating a second observation to the observation workflow, wherein the second observation is another one of the direct observation, the multimedia captured observation, and the walkthrough survey; and

providing, through the user interface of the first computer device, a second list of selectable steps, wherein each step is a step to complete the second observation.

11. The method of claim 1 further comprising:

associating a plurality of performance rubrics to the workflow, the plurality of rubrics to be used in the evaluation of the performance of the task in the workflow.

12. A computer-implemented method for facilitating performance evaluation of a task by one or more observed persons, the method comprising:

providing a user interface accessible by one or more users at one or more computer devices;

allowing, via the user interface, a video observation to be assigned to a workflow, the video observation comprising a video recording of the task being performed by the one or more observed persons;

allowing, via the user interface, a direct observation to be assigned to the workflow, the direct observation comprises data collected during a real-time observation of the performance of the task by the one or more observed persons; and

allowing, via the user interface, a walkthrough survey to be assigned to the workflow, the walkthrough survey comprises general information gathered at a setting in which the one or more observed persons perform the task; and

storing an association of at least two of an assigned video observation, an assigned direct observation, and an assigned walkthrough survey to the workflow.

13. The method of claim 12 further comprising:

displaying together, via the user interface at the one or more computer devices, information from at least two of the assigned video observation, the assigned direct observation, and the assigned walkthrough survey.

14. The method of claim 12 further comprising:

allowing, via the user interface, adding of content to at least one of the assigned video observation, the assigned direct observation, and the assigned walkthrough survey.

15. The method of claim 12, further comprising:

providing a list of steps associated with one of the assigned video observation, the assigned direct observation, and the assigned walkthrough survey;

storing one or more selected steps to the workflow; and

sending a notification regarding the addition of the one or more selected steps through the workflow.

16. The method of claim 12, further comprising:

storing scores associated for at least two of the assigned video observation, assigned direct observation, and the assigned walkthrough survey; and

generating a weighted score by combining, using computer implemented logics, the scores for two or more assigned observations.

17. The method of claim 12 further comprising:

generating a report comprising results of for at least two of the assigned video observation, assigned direct observation, and the assigned walkthrough survey.

18. The method of claim 12 further comprising:

allowing a plurality of performance rubrics to be assigned the workflow, the plurality of rubrics to be used in the evaluation of the performance of the task in the workflow.

19. A computer-implemented method for facilitating performance evaluation of a task by one or more observed persons, the method comprising:

providing a user interface accessible by one or more users at one or more computer devices;

associating, via the user interface, a plurality of observations of the one or more observed persons performing the task to an evaluation of the task, wherein each of the plurality of observations is a different type of observation;

associating a plurality of different performance rubrics to the evaluation of the task; and

receiving an evaluation of the performance of the task based on the plurality of observations and the plurality of rubrics.

20. The method of claim 19 wherein a plurality of types of the plurality of observations comprises a multimedia captured observation type, a direct observation type and a walkthrough survey type.