Student profile grading system

• US 8,465,288 B1
• Filed: 02/28/2008
• Issued: 06/18/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 02/28/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Patrick G. Roers
• Original Assignee: Patrick G. Roers
• Inventors: Roers, Patrick G.
• Primary Examiner(s): Utama, Robert J
• Assistant Examiner(s): Zaman, Sadaruz
• Application Number:
  US12/038,952
• Time in Patent Office: 1,937 Days
• Field of Search: 434/118, 434/322, 434/326, 434/236, 434/323, 434350-353, 434362-365, 706/927
• US Class Current: 434/236
• 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 7/08 characterised by modifying the teaching programme in response to a wrong answer, e.g. repeating the question, supplying further information

Abstract

The invention relates to a method and means of grading students. This invention is a software application utilizing profiling techniques that when combined or imbedded with available knowledge on the human learning experience will individually evaluate each student based on their current ability and capacity to learn, by subject. Student'"'"'s tests are graded electronically against their personal ability and capability profile for grade. The profile system software is applicable to many learning situations requiring a measured outcome.

Claims

1. A non-transitory computer-readable medium encoded with instructions for causing a computer to execute a method of grading individual students using profiling comprising:

storing an individual personal student profile for an individual student in a student information database, wherein the individual student profile comprises an individual characterization of an innate and cognizant ability for the individual student in a field of study determined by profile testing the individual student in at least one of psychological testing, sociological testing, and educational testing, wherein the individual characterization comprises;

an age appropriate ability score;

an aptitude score; and

an innate and cognizant ability score;

establishing an individual student baseline for the individual student, wherein the individual student baseline comprises an expected performance level for the individual student in the field of study based on;

the individual student profile information in the field of study; and

a composition of the age appropriate ability score, the aptitude score, and the innate and cognizant ability score to create a determination of how well the individual student is capable of doing in the field of study; and

determining a student grade for the individual student on a curriculum test by comparing a curriculum test result in the field of study against the individual student baseline in the field of study according to a predetermined criteria for determining how well the individual student performed on the curriculum test in relation to the expected performance level for the individual student in the field of study, wherein the student grade represents a level of achievement of the student compared, to the determination of how well the individual student is capable of doing in the field of study.

2. A non-transitory computer-readable medium according to claim 1, wherein

the age appropriate ability score corresponds to a range of age appropriate content.

3. A non-transitory computer-readable medium according to claim 1, wherein establishing the individual student baseline further comprises:

assigning a weighted factor to the innate and cognizant ability score;

assigning a weighted factor to the aptitude score; and

compiling the age appropriate ability score with the weighted innate and cognizant ability and aptitude scores to calculate a base factor score used to generate a grading scale individual to the student in the field of study for comparing the curriculum test result to the predetermined criteria.

4. A non-transitory computer-readable medium according to claim 1, further comprising:

updating the personal student profile for each student at predetermined intervals; and

performing a reliability check on the personal student profile, when the grade is calculated.

5. A non-transitory computer-readable medium according to claim 1, further comprising:

storing a second individual personal student profile for a second individual student in the student information database, wherein the second individual student profile comprises an individual characterization of an innate and cognizant ability for the second individual student in the field of study determined by profile testing the second individual student in at least one of psychological testing, sociological testing, and educational testing, wherein the individual characterization comprises;

an age appropriate ability score for the second individual student;

an aptitude score for the second individual student; and

an innate and cognizant ability score for the second individual student;

establishing a second individual student baseline for the second individual student, wherein the second individual student baseline comprises an expected performance level for the second individual student in the field of study based on;

the second individual student profile information in the field of study; and

a composition of the age appropriate ability score, the aptitude score, and the innate and cognizant ability score to create a determination how well the second individual student is capable of doing in the field of study; and

determining a student grade for the second individual student on the curriculum test by comparing a second curriculum test result in the field of study against the second individual student baseline in the field of study according to the predetermined criteria for determining how well the second individual student performed on the curriculum test in relation to the expected performance level for the second individual student in the field of study, wherein the student grade represents a level of achievement of the second individual student compared to the determination of how well the second individual student is capable of doing in the field of study.

6. A non-transitory computer-readable medium according to claim 1, wherein:

psychological testing comprises at least one of a cognitive assessment, an emotional and conduct assessment, a remedial activity, a speech assessment, a language assessment, and a visual perception assessment;

sociological testing comprises at least one of an emotional assessment, a conduct assessment, a readiness assessment, a speech assessment, and a language assessment; and

educational testing comprises at least one of an academic achievement assessment, an arithmetic assessment, an articulation stories assessment, an information processing assessment, a memory assessment, a learning assessment, and a language assessment.

7. A non-transitory computer-readable medium encoded with instructions for causing a computer to establish an individual student baseline for profile grading based on innate and cognitive learning abilities of individual students comprising:

a student information database, wherein;

the database is configured to store an individual student profile for each individual student; and

the individual student profile comprises an individual characterization of an innate and cognizant ability for each individual student in a field of study determined by profile testing each individual student in at least one of psychological testing, sociological testing, and educational testing, wherein the individual characterization comprises;

an age appropriate ability score; and

an aptitude score; and

an innate and cognizant ability score;

a student profile processing module communicatively linked with the student information database, wherein the student profile processing module is configured to establish an individual student baseline for each individual student comprising an expected performance level for each individual student in the field of study based on the individual student profile information for each individual student in the field of study and a composition of the age appropriate ability score, the aptitude score, and the innate and cognizant ability score to create a determination of how well the individual student is capable of doing in the field of study;

a results database communicatively linked with the student profile processing module and configured to store a curriculum test result in the field of study for each individual student; and

a test report and print module conummicatively linked with the results database, wherein the test report and print module computes a student grade for each individual student by comparing the curriculum test result for each individual student in the field of study against their respective individual student baseline according to a predetermined criteria for determining how well the individual student performed on the curriculum test in relation to the expected performance level for the individual student in the field of study, wherein the student grade represents a level of achievement of the student compared to the determination of how well the individual student is capable of doing in the field of study.

8. A non-transitory computer-readable medium according to claim 7, wherein:

the age appropriate ability score corresponds to a range of age appropriate content.

9. A non-transitory computer-readable medium according to claim 7, wherein each individual student baseline comprises:

a weighted factor applied to the innate and cognizant ability score;

a weighted factor applied to the aptitude score; and

a statistical compilation of the age appropriate ability score with the weighted innate and cognizant ability and aptitude scores to calculate a base factor score.

10. A non-transitory computer-readable medium according to claim 9, wherein the base factor score is used to generate a grading scale individual to each individual student in the field of study for comparing the curriculum test result to the predetermined criteria.

11. A non-transitory computer-readable medium according to claim 7, wherein the student profiling processing module is further configured to update the personal student profile of each individual student at predetermined intervals.

12. A non-transitory computer-readable medium according to claim 8, further comprising performing a reliability check on the personal student profile of each individual student when each grade is calculated.

13. A non-transitory computer-readable medium according to claim 7, wherein the results database is further configured to store:

class information on overall comprehension;

individual teacher scoring on class comprehension by test;

re-training and re-testing information by class and teacher; and

progressive and cumulative information on all tests taken.

14. A non-transitory computer-readable medium according to claim 13, wherein the test report and print module is further configured to:

report teacher effectiveness based on a particular curriculum test;

report teacher effectiveness of a class being taught by a specific teacher;

report on subject retention by students; and

report on overall school effectiveness.

15. A non-transitory computer-readable medium according to claim 8, wherein:

the results database is further configured to store a second curriculum test result for each individual student in a second field of study; and

the student profile processing module is further configured to;

store within each personal student profile a second individual characterization of an innate and cognizant ability for each individual student in the second field of study, wherein the individual characterization comprises;

an age appropriate ability score; and

an aptitude score; and

an innate and cognizant ability score;

establish a second individual student baseline for each individual student comprising a second expected performance level for each individual student in the second field of study, wherein the second individual student baseline is based on the individual student profile information for each student in the second field of study to form a second predetermined criteria for each individual student and a composition of the age appropriate ability score, the aptitude score, and the innate and cognizant ability score to create a determination of how well the individual student is capable of doing in the second field of study; and

the test report and print module computes a second student grade for each individual student by comparing the second curriculum test result for each individual student in the second field of study against the second predetermined criteria for each individual student in the second field of study, wherein the student grade represents a level of achievement of the student compared to the determination of how well the individual student is capable of doing in the second field of study.