Automated, computer-based reading tutoring systems and methods
First Claim
1. An automated, computer-based reading tutoring system comprisingat least one domain of discourse accessible by a student via a computer system, said at least one domain of discourse including a plurality of instructional passages of different, predetermined levels of reading difficulty available for the student to read via a monitor of the computer system;
- semantic space method means for receiving a summary prepared by the student and submitted via the computer system of one of said instructional passages read by the student, said semantic space method means being adapted to automatically evaluate the summary for congruence with said one of said instructional passages and to automatically determine which of said instructional passages from said domain of discourse the student should read next based on the congruence of the summary with said one of said instructional passages; and
immediate feedback data capable of being provided to the student via the computer system and including an indicator reflective of the congruence of the summary with said one of said instructional passages and including the identity of which of said instructional passages the student should read next.
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Abstract
An automated, computer-based reading tutoring system is accessed via a computer system and includes a plurality of instructional passages of different, predetermined levels of reading difficulty. A semantic space module of the reading tutoring system operates on a semantic space, which is produced by a machine-learning method, to automatically evaluate a student-submitted summary of a selected instructional passage for congruence with the selected instructional passage and to automatically determine which instructional passage the student should optimally read next. The reading tutoring system includes immediate feedback data provided to the student and including an indicator reflective of the student'"'"'s reading comprehension and the identity of the instructional passage that the student should read next. An automated, computer-based method of reading tutoring comprises the steps of receiving a student-submitted summary of a selected instructional passage from a domain of discourse, automatically evaluating the summary to obtain a measure of the student'"'"'s reading comprehension and, based on this evaluation, automatically selecting an instructional passage for the student to read next.
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42 Claims
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1. An automated, computer-based reading tutoring system comprising
at least one domain of discourse accessible by a student via a computer system, said at least one domain of discourse including a plurality of instructional passages of different, predetermined levels of reading difficulty available for the student to read via a monitor of the computer system; -
semantic space method means for receiving a summary prepared by the student and submitted via the computer system of one of said instructional passages read by the student, said semantic space method means being adapted to automatically evaluate the summary for congruence with said one of said instructional passages and to automatically determine which of said instructional passages from said domain of discourse the student should read next based on the congruence of the summary with said one of said instructional passages; and immediate feedback data capable of being provided to the student via the computer system and including an indicator reflective of the congruence of the summary with said one of said instructional passages and including the identity of which of said instructional passages the student should read next. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4)
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5. An automated, computer-based reading tutoring system comprising
at least one domain of discourse accessible by a student via a computer system, said at least one domain of discourse including a plurality of instructional passages of different, predetermined levels of reading difficulty available for the student to read via a monitor of the computer system; -
a comprehension tutor module accessible by the student via the computer system, said comprehension tutor module being adapted to present the student with interactive summarizing instruction and exercises via the computer system; one or more semantic spaces produced by a machine-learning method; semantic space method means for receiving a summary prepared by the student and submitted via the computer system of one of said instructional passages read by the student, said semantic space method means including one or more semantic space algorithms operating on said one or more semantic spaces, said semantic space method means being adapted to automatically evaluate the summary for congruence with said one of said instructional passages and to automatically determine which of said instructional passages from said domain of discourse the student should read next based on the congruence of the summary with said one of said instructional passages; and immediate feedback data capable of being provided to the student via the computer system and including an indicator reflective of the congruence of the summary with said one of said instructional passages and including the identity of which of said instructional passages the student should read next. - View Dependent Claims (6, 7, 8, 9, 10)
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11. An automated, computer-based reading tutoring system comprising
at least one domain of discourse accessible by a student via a computer system, said at least one domain of discourse including a plurality of instructional passages of different, predetermined levels of reading difficulty available for the student to read via a monitor of the computer system; -
a vocabulary tutor module accessible by the student via the computer system, said vocabulary tutor module being adapted to communicate principal vocabulary words from said one of said instructional passages to the student via the computer systems including definitions, synonyms, antonyms and samples of correct usage, and to present the student with interactive practice exercises for said principal vocabulary words, said vocabulary tutor module being adapted to automatically evaluate the student'"'"'s performance on said interactive practice exercises; one or more semantic spaces produced by a machine-learning method; semantic space method means for receiving a summary prepared by the student and submitted via the computer system of one of said instructional passages read by the student, said semantic space method means including one or more semantic space algorithms operating on said one or more semantic spaces, said semantic space method means being adapted to automatically evaluate the summary for congruence with said one of said instructional passages and to automatically determine which of said instructional passages from said domain of discourse the student should read next based on the congruence of the summary with said one of said instructional passages; and immediate feedback data capable of being provided to the student via the computer system and including an indicator reflective of the congruence of the summary with said one of said instructional passages and including the identity of which of said instructional passages the student should read next, said immediate feedback data including information regarding the student'"'"'s performance on said interactive practice exercises. - View Dependent Claims (12, 13, 14, 15, 16)
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17. An automated, computer-based reading tutoring system comprising
at least one domain of discourse accessible by a student via a computer system, said at least one domain of discourse including a plurality of instructional passages of different, predetermined levels of reading difficulty available for the student to read via a monitor of the computer system; -
a voice recognition system capable of receiving audible input from a student via the computer system; a fluency tutor module accessible by the student via the computer system, said fluency tutor module being adapted to audibly communicate an audibly correct reading of said one of said instructional passages to the student via the computer system, to receive an audible reading of said one of said instructional passages by the student via the computer system, and to automatically evaluate the audible reading for accuracy and speed; one or more semantic spaces produced by a machine-learning method; semantic space method means for receiving a summary prepared by the student and submitted via the computer system of one of said instructional passages read by the student, said semantic space method means including one or more semantic space algorithms operating on said one or more semantic spaces, said semantic space method means being adapted to automatically evaluate the summary for congruence with said one of said instructional passages and to automatically determine which of said instructional passages from said domain of discourse the student should read next based on the congruence of the summary with said one of said instructional passages; and immediate feedback data capable of being provided to the student via the computer system and including an indicator reflective of the congruence of the summary with said one of said instructional passages and including the identity of which of said instructional passages the student should read next, said immediate feedback data including information regarding the accuracy and speed of the audible reading.
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18. An automated, computer-based reading tutoring system comprising
at least one domain of discourse accessible by a student via a computer system, said at least one domain of discourse including a plurality of instructional passages of different, predetermined levels of reading difficulty available for the student to read via a monitor of the computer system; -
a semantic space derived from a machine learning method; a semantic space module for receiving a summary prepared by the student and submitted via the computer system of one of said instructional passages read by the student, said semantic space module operating on said semantic space to automatically evaluate the summary for congruence with said one of said instructional passages and to automatically determine which of said instructional passages from said domain of discourse the student should read next based on the congruence of the summary with said one of said instructional passages; and immediate feedback data capable of being provided to the student via the computer system and including an indicator reflective of the congruence of the summary with said one of said instructional passages and including the identity of which of said instructional passages the student should read next. - View Dependent Claims (19, 20)
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21. An automated, computer-based method of reading tutoring comprising the steps of
providing a domain of discourse accessible by a student via a computer system and including a plurality of instructional passages of different, predetermined levels of reading difficulty; -
selecting one of the instructional passages to appear on a monitor of the computer system for the student to read; receiving a summary of the selected instructional passage prepared by the student and submitted via the computer system; automatically evaluating the summary for congruence with the selected instructional passage to obtain a measure of the student'"'"'s reading comprehension; automatically selecting an instructional passage from the domain of discourse that the student should optimally read next based on the measure of the student'"'"'s reading comprehension; communicating feedback data to the student, via the computer system, including an indicator reflective of the student'"'"'s reading comprehension and the identity of the instructional passage that the student should optimally read next; and repeating said receiving, said automatically evaluating, said automatically selecting and said communicating steps for the instructional passage that the student reads next. - View Dependent Claims (22, 23)
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24. An automated, computer-based method of reading tutoring comprising the steps of
providing a domain of discourse accessible by a student via a computer system and including a plurality of instructional passages of different, predetermined levels of reading difficulty; -
selecting one of the instructional passages to appear on a monitor of the computer system for the student to read; receiving a summary of the selected instructional passage prepared by the student and submitted via the computer system; automatically evaluating the summary for congruence with the selected instructional passage to obtain a measure of the student'"'"'s reading comprehension; automatically selecting an instructional passage from the domain of discourse that the student should optimally read next based on the measure of the student'"'"'s reading comprehension, said step of automatically evaluating and said step of automatically selecting being performed using semantic space algorithms, said step of automatically selecting including selecting the passage that the student should optimally read next based on the congruence of the summary with the previously selected instructional passage; communicating feedback data to the student, via the computer system, including an indicator reflective of the student'"'"'s reading comprehension and the identity of the instructional passage that the student should optimally read next; and repeating said receiving, said automatically evaluating, said automatically selecting and said communicating steps for the instructional passage that the student reads next.
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25. An automated, computer-based method of reading tutoring comprising the steps of
providing a domain of discourse accessible by a student via a computer system and including a plurality of instructional passages of different, predetermined levels of reading difficulty; -
selecting one of the instructional passages to appear on a monitor of the computer system for the student to read; receiving a summary of the selected instructional passage prepared by the student and submitted via the computer system; automatically evaluating the summary for congruence with the selected instructional passage to obtain a measure of the student'"'"'s reading comprehension; automatically selecting an instructional passage from the domain of discourse that the student should optimally read next based on the measure of the student'"'"'s reading comprehension, said step of automatically evaluating and said step of automatically selecting being performed using semantic space algorithms, said step of automatically selecting including selecting the passage that the student should optimally read next based on the congruence of the summary with the other passages in the domain; communicating feedback data to the student, via the computer system, including an indicator reflective of the student'"'"'s reading comprehension and the identity of the instructional passage that the student should optimally read next; and repeating said receiving, said automatically evaluating, said automatically selecting and said communicating steps for the instructional passage that the student reads next.
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26. An automated, computer-based method of reading tutoring comprising the steps of
providing a domain of discourse accessible by a student via a computer system and including a plurality of instructional passages of different, predetermined levels of reading difficulty; -
selecting one of the instructional passages to appear on a monitor of the computer system for the student to read; providing the student access to an automated comprehension tutor via the computer system; providing the student access to an automated vocabulary tutor via the computer system; providing the student access to an automated fluency tutor via the computer system; receiving a summary of the selected instructional passage prepared by the student and submitted via the computer system; automatically evaluating the summary for congruence with the selected instructional passage to obtain a measure of the student'"'"'s reading comprehension; automatically selecting an instructional passage from the domain of discourse that the student should optimally read next based on the measure of the student'"'"'s reading comprehension; communicating feedback data to the student, via the computer system, including an indicator reflective of the student'"'"'s reading comprehension and the identity of the instructional passage that the student should optimally read next; and repeating said steps of providing the student access to the comprehension tutor, the vocabulary tutor and the fluency tutor, said step of receiving, said step of automatically evaluating, said step of automatically selecting and said step of communicating for the instructional passage that the student reads next. - View Dependent Claims (27, 28, 29, 30, 31)
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32. An automated, computer-based method of reading tutoring comprising the steps of
providing a domain of discourse accessible by a student via a computer system and including a plurality of instructional passages of different, predetermined levels of reading difficulty; -
selecting one of the instructional passages to appear on a monitor of the computer system for the student to read; receiving a summary of the selected instructional passage prepared by the student and submitted via the computer system; automatically evaluating the summary for congruence with the selected instructional passage to obtain a measure of the student'"'"'s reading comprehension; automatically selecting an instructional passage from the domain of discourse that the student should optimally read next based on the measure of the student'"'"'s reading comprehension, said step of automatically selecting including selecting the instructional passage that the student should optimally read next based on the congruence of the summary with other passages in the domain of discourse; communicating feedback data to the student, via the computer system, including an indicator reflective of the student'"'"'s reading comprehension and the identity of the instructional passage that the student should optimally read next; and repeating said receiving, said automatically evaluating, said automatically selecting and said communicating steps for the instructional passage that the student reads next.
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33. An automated, computer-based method of reading tutoring comprising the steps of
providing a domain of discourse accessible by a student via a computer system and including a plurality of instructional passages of different, predetermined levels of reading difficulty; -
selecting one of the instructional passages to appear on a monitor of the computer system for the student to read; receiving a summary of the selected instructional passage prepared by the student and submitted via the computer system; automatically evaluating the summary for congruence with the selected instructional passage to obtain a measure of the student'"'"'s reading comprehension; automatically selecting an instructional passage from the domain of discourse that the student should optimally read next based on the measure of the student'"'"'s reading comprehension, said step of automatically selecting including selecting the instructional passage that the student should optimally read next based on the congruence of the summary with the previously selected instructional passage; communicating feedback data to the student, via the computer system, including an indicator reflective of the student'"'"'s reading comprehension and the identity of the instructional passage that the student should optimally read next; and repeating said receiving, said automatically evaluating, said automatically selecting and said communicating steps for the instructional passage that the student reads next.
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34. An automated, computer-based method of reading tutoring comprising the steps of
providing a domain of discourse accessible by a student via a computer system and including a plurality of instructional passages of different, predetermined levels of reading difficulty; -
selecting one of the instructional passages to appear on a monitor of the computer system for the student to read; receiving a summary of the selected instructional passage prepared by the student and submitted via the computer system; automatically checking the summary for validity; automatically evaluating the summary for congruence with the selected instructional passage to obtain a measure of the student'"'"'s reading comprehension; automatically selecting an instructional passage from the domain of discourse that the student should optimally read next based on the measure of the student'"'"'s reading comprehension; communicating feedback data to the student, via the computer system, including an indicator reflective of the student'"'"'s reading comprehension and the identity of the instructional passage that the student should optimally read next; and repeating said receiving, said automatically evaluating, said automatically selecting and said communicating steps for the instructional passage that the student reads next.
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35. An automated, computer-based method of self-guided reading tutoring comprising the steps of
accessing a computer-based reading tutoring system via a computer system; -
viewing a selected instructional passage from a domain of discourse, including a plurality of instructional passages of different, predetermined levels of reading difficulty, of the reading tutoring system on a monitor of the computer system; reading the selected instructional passage; preparing a summary of the selected instructional passage; submitting the summary to the reading tutoring system via the computer system; receiving immediate feedback data from the reading tutoring system via the computer system including an indicator reflective of the congruence of the summary with the selected instructional passage and including the identity of one or more recommended instructional passages from the domain of discourse that should be read next based on the congruence of the summary with the selected instructional passage; and repeating said steps of viewing, reading, preparing, submitting and receiving for one of the recommended instructional passages. - View Dependent Claims (37, 38)
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36. An automated, computer-based method of self-guided reading tutoring comprising the steps of
accessing a computer-based reading tutoring system via a computer system; -
self-selecting a domain of discourse via the computer system from a plurality of domains of discourse of the reading tutoring system, each domain of discourse including a plurality of instructional passages of different, predetermined levels of reading difficulty; viewing a selected instructional passage from the selected domain of discourse on a monitor of the computer system; reading the selected instructional passage; preparing a summary of the selected instructional passage; submitting the summary to the reading tutoring system via the computer system; receiving immediate feedback data from the reading tutoring system via the computer system including an indicator reflective of the congruence of the summary with the selected instructional passage and including the identity of one or more recommended instructional passages from the domain of discourse that should be read next based on the congruence of the summary with the selected instructional passage; and repeating said steps of viewing, reading, preparing, submitting and receiving for one of the recommended instructional passages.
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39. An automated, computer-based method of self-guided reading tutoring comprising the steps of
accessing a computer-based reading tutoring system via a computer system; -
viewing a selected instructional passage from a domain of discourse, including a plurality of instructional passages of different, predetermined levels of reading difficulty, of the reading tutoring system on a monitor of the computer system; reading the selected instructional passage; preparing a practice summary of the selected instructional passage; submitting the practice summary to the reading tutoring system via the computer system; receiving immediate feedback data from the reading tutoring system via the computer system including information regarding the quality of the practice summary as a measure of reading comprehension; preparing a non-practice summary of the selected instructional passage; submitting the non-practice summary to the reading tutoring system via the computer system; receiving immediate feedback data from the reading tutoring system via the computer system including an indicator reflective of the congruence of the non-practice summary with the selected instructional passage and including the identity of one or more recommended instructional passages from the domain of discourse that should be read next based on the congruence of the non-practice summary with the selected instructional passage; and repeating said steps of viewing, reading, preparing, submitting and receiving for one of the recommended instructional passages.
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40. An automated, computer-based method of self-guided reading tutoring comprising the steps of
accessing a computer-based reading tutoring system via a computer system; -
viewing a selected instructional passage from a domain of discourse, including a plurality of instructional passages of different, predetermined levels of reading difficulty, of the reading tutoring system on a monitor of the computer system; reading the selected instructional passage; viewing principal vocabulary words from the selected instructional passage, including definitions, synonyms, antonyms, and samples of correct usage for the principal vocabulary words, on the monitor; preparing a summary of the selected instructional passage; submitting the summary to the reading tutoring system via the computer system; receiving immediate feedback data from the reading tutoring system via the computer system including an indicator reflective of the congruence of the summary with the selected instructional passage and including the identity of one or more recommended instructional passages from the domain of discourse that should be read next based on the congruence of the summary with the selected instructional passage; and repeating said steps of viewing, reading, preparing, submitting and receiving for one of the recommended instructional passages. - View Dependent Claims (41)
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42. An automated, computer-based method of self-guided reading tutoring comprising the steps of
accessing a computer-based reading tutoring system via a computer system; -
viewing a selected instructional passage from a domain of discourse, including a plurality of instructional passages of different, predetermined levels of reading difficulty, of the reading tutoring system on a monitor of the computer system; listening to an audibly correct reading of the selected instructional passage via the computer system; submitting an audible reading of the selected instructional passage to the reading tutoring system via the computer system; receiving immediate feedback data from the reading tutoring system via the computer system including information regarding the accuracy and speed of the audible reading; preparing a summary of the selected instructional passage subsequent to reading the instructional passage; submitting the summary to the reading tutoring system via the computer system; receiving immediate feedback data from the reading tutoring system via the computer system including an indicator reflective of the congruence of the summary with the selected instructional passage and including the identity of one or more recommended instructional passages from the domain of discourse that should be read next based on the congruence of the non-practice summary with the selected instructional passage; and repeating said steps of viewing, preparing, submitting the summary and receiving an indicator for one of the recommended instructional passages.
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