Method for instructing a student using an automatically generated student profile

• US 6,666,687 B2
• Filed: 01/31/2003
• Issued: 12/23/2003
• Est. Priority Date: 09/25/1996
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Laureate Education Incorporated
• Original Assignee: Sylvan Learning
• Inventors: Stuppy, John J.
• Primary Examiner(s): Rovnak, John Edmund
• Application Number:
  US10/354,987
• Publication Number:
  US 20030198929A1
• Time in Patent Office: 326 Days
• Field of Search: 434/118, 434/156-185, 434/188-216, 434/219-238, 434/276, 434/307.R, 434/308-321, 434/322-365
• US Class Current: 434/322
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/00 Administration; Management
• CPC Class Codes: G09B 5/00 Electrically-operated educational appliances working with questions and answers G09B7/00; simulators G09B9/00; advertising or displaying in general G09F
• CPC Class Codes: G09B 5/14 with provision for individual teacher-student communication
• CPC Class Codes: G09B 7/00 Electrically-operated teaching apparatus or devices working with questions and answers mechanically operated G09B3/00; computing arrangements G06F
• 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
• CPC Class Codes: G09B 7/04 characterised by modifying the teaching programme in response to a wrong answer, e.g. repeating the question, supplying a further explanation

Abstract

This invention is a computer based system for the assessment, management and instruction of students, and for the delivery of work pages and other instructional materials in the form of electronic student workbooks. The computer based assessment of the student produces a student profile including skill gaps or learning objectives. Teacher (20) and student (22) workstations are networked CPUs with pen-based tablet inputs, and displays network with a central processor (10) and data base. A director workstation may also be networked with the central processor. The central processor generates a teacher workbook either directly or with input from the director workstation. The teacher, or teacher and director together, assemble an electronic student workbook containing instructional materials correlated with the student profile. The system tracks useful data such as instructional material (e.g., textbook pages, work sheets, software, simulations, tests, etc.) delivered to students.

Claims

1. A method for instructing a student over a network comprising:

generating a student profile based on a student related data;

generating a student workbook at a student workstation for interfacing with the student over the network, said student workbook being generated using the student profile;

collecting student input data at the student workbook; and

forwarding the student input data to a station within the network.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the student profile is generated based on at least one of a stored input, an assessed data, a collected input, and a skill gap.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein the assessed data relates to a previously assessed data.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the forwarded student input data is used to update the student profile.

5. The method of claim 1, further comprising assigning a teacher privilege to a teacher with respect to the student.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the student workbook is used for at least one of accessing an instructional material, delivering an instructional material to the student, storing a student input, storing a student response, and retrieving a student input.

7. The method of claim 6, wherein the student workbook is generated by running a program supplied from a server to display the instructional material to the student.

8. The method of claim 6, wherein the instructional material is stored in a database.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein the station comprise at least one of a server, and a teacher workstation.

10. A method for interfacing with a student over a network comprising:

retrieving a student profile that contains information relating to a student;

generating a student workbook at a student workstation using the student profile;

using the student workbook for interfacing with the student over the network; and

forwarding a collected student input data at the student workbook to a station within the network.

11. The method of claim 10 further including using the student workbook for delivering instructional material to the student.

12. The method of claim 10, further including using the student workbook for accessing instructional material stored in a database.

13. The method of claim 11 further including collecting student input data entered at the student workbook in response to the instructional material.

14. The method of claim 10, wherein the student workbook is used for at least one of storing a student input, storing a student response, and retrieving a student input.

15. The method of claim 10, wherein the station comprise at least one of a server, and a teacher workstation.