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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8170466 | System and method for automated assessment of constrained constructed responses A system and method for automated assessment of constrained constructed responses provides for automatic, e.g., programmatic, assessing of a test subject response to a constrained constructed response item or question. In one embodiment, paper test materials with te... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8086166 | Method and system for creating, administering and automating scoring of dimensional modeling constructed response items The methodology of the present invention is implemented by a system which defines concepts about which a respondent is required to demonstrate knowledge of a relationship. The concepts are represented by respondent-manipulable devices that are uniquely associated wi... | 12/27/2011 |
| 7974570 | Latent property diagnosing procedure The present invention provides a method of doing cognitive diagnosis of mental skills, medical and psychiatric diagnosis of diseases and disorders, and in general the diagnosing of latent properties of a set of objects, usually people, for which multiple pieces of b... | 07/05/2011 |
| 7865131 | Methods for improving certainty of test-taker performance determinations for assessments with open-ended items The current invention is designed to improve the certainty of test-taker classifications in testing programs utilizing open-ended items. The current invention discloses methods to improve certainty in estimates of test-taker performance for all test-takers while usi... | 01/04/2011 |
| 7831196 | Automatic essay scoring system A method of grading an essay using an automated essay scoring system is provided. The method comprises the steps of deriving a set of predetermined features from the essay, wherein the predetermined feature set comprises one or more features that are independent fro... | 11/09/2010 |
| 7796937 | Automated annotation To automatically annotate an essay, a sentence of the essay is identified and a feature associated with the sentence is determined. In addition, a probability of the sentence being a discourse element is determined by mapping the feature to a model. The model having... | 09/14/2010 |
| 7769339 | Automated essay scoring To automatically evaluate an essay, the essay is applied to a plurality of trait models and a plurality of trait scores are determined based on the plurality of trait models. Each of these trait scores having been generated from a respective trait model. In addition... | 08/03/2010 |
| 7764923 | Material processing apparatus and method for grading material A material processing apparatus has a reader unit, an information extracting unit and a grade determination unit. The reader unit reads a material. The information extracting unit extracts information from the material, the information having information written by ... | 07/27/2010 |
| 7729655 | Methods for automated essay analysis An essay is analyzed automatically by accepting the essay and determining whether each of a predetermined set of features is present or absent in each sentence of the essay. For each sentence in the essay a probability that the sentence is a member of a certain disc... | 06/01/2010 |
| 7711312 | Method and system for detecting off-topic essays without topic-specific training Methods and systems for detecting off-topic essays are described that do not require training using human-scored essays. The methods can detect different types of off-topic essays, such as unexpected topic essays and bad faith essays. Unexpected topic essays are ess... | 05/04/2010 |
| 7657221 | Virtual oral recitation examination apparatus, system and method The invented apparatus, system and method for examining a student's oral answer capability includes a presentation mechanism for presenting a program test including one or more questions and soliciting one or more answers as oral inputs; a voice recognition mechanis... | 02/02/2010 |
| 7657220 | Adaptive scoring of responses to constructed response questions A method for adaptive scoring of responses to constructed response questions is disclosed. Adaptive scoring may be used to apply evaluator time in such a way that a predetermined reliability level is reached with the least possible use of evaluator time, including a... | 02/02/2010 |
| 7593685 | Optical mark recognition tabulation device An optical mark recognition tabulation device includes a guide channel including opposing integral sidewalls configured to laterally constrain a test sheet as the test sheet is fed past a set of optical sensors. The optical sensors are aligned with optical entry ind... | 09/22/2009 |
| 7457581 | Latent property diagnosing procedure The present invention provides a method of doing cognitive diagnosis of mental skills, medical and psychiatric diagnosis of diseases and disorders, and in general the diagnosing of latent properties of a set of objects, usually people, for which multiple pieces of b... | 11/25/2008 |
| 7440725 | Method of evaluation fit of raw data to model data Methods and systems for evaluating the fit of raw data to model data are disclosed. Relationships between an assessment item and a tested attribute, responses from examinees to an assessment item, mastery states for an examinee for a tested attribute, one or more pa... | 10/21/2008 |
| 7390191 | Computer system configured to sequence multi-day training utilizing a database A computer system configured to provide multi-day training to users. The computer system includes a program storage device. The program storage device includes a database that stores a number-of training-days value and sequence data. The program storage device also ... | 06/24/2008 |
| 7373102 | Cooccurrence and constructions A method and system for performing automatic text analysis is described. A local ranking for one or more contexts with respect to a word and a global ranking for one or more contexts are generated. The rankings are based on the frequency with which the contexts appe... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7364432 | Methods of selecting Lock-In Training courses and sessions A Lock-In Training system. The Lock-In Training system can include an appropriately programmed Web site and a user computer. The Lock-In Training system can also include an appropriately programmed stand-alone computer. Some embodiments of the invention allow studen... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7357640 | Lock-In Training system A Lock-In Training system. The Lock-In Training system can include an appropriately programmed Web site and a user computer. The Lock-In Training system can also include an appropriately programmed stand-alone computer. Some embodiments of the invention allow studen... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7351064 | Question and answer dialogue generation for intelligent tutors A question generation means is developed for intelligent tutors wherein a question menu having dynamic questions is capable of being displayed after each step of a problem. The generated question set contains both elementary and advanced questions and changes after ... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7343134 | System and method for communicating with students in an education environment A communication system for communicating with students in an education environment includes a plurality of remote units, a base station that receives messages from the remote units, a processor, a memory, and a display simultaneously visible to all users of the remo... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7338287 | Systems and methods for searching for and delivering solutions to specific problems and problem types Methods and systems for providing a solution to a given problem comprising the steps of receiving a request for a solution to a known problem, accessing a first set of data comprising a plurality of template solutions to problems, accessing a second set of data comp... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7318191 | Automated system and method for dynamically generating customized typeset question-based documents The present invention generally relates to a system and method for dynamically generating customized, typeset publication quality question-based documents, such as examinations, answers and/or worked out solutions in a portable document format. More particularly, th... | 01/08/2008 |
| 7315725 | Computer system and method for training certifying or monitoring human clinical raters A method and system are disclosed for computerized training, monitoring, certification or re-certification of human raters in clinical trials. The invention provides an interactive computerized interview that can be compared scores obtained by human raters to monito... | 01/01/2008 |
| 7315649 | Information recognition device operating with low power consumption A character recognition device recognizing characters with low power consumption includes a data input unit for entering handwriting data representing a character to be recognized, a character recognition dictionary storing character recognition information required... | 01/01/2008 |
| 7286793 | Method and apparatus for evaluating educational performance An improved method and apparatus for evaluating the performance of an individual. In one aspect, the invention includes a method of encoding questions used in an examination in order to accurately identify and evaluate deficiencies in an individual's knowledge. In a... | 10/23/2007 |
| 7286498 | Validation method and data structures for wireless communications A response monitoring apparatus using a remote including an electrical circuit including a user activated input, a transmitter, and a receiver, where the electrical circuit is adapted to detect operation of the user activated input and temporarily activates the rece... | 10/23/2007 |
| 7258660 | Speech therapy method An improved stuttering treatment program provides for a multi dimensional diagnostic procedure for identifying the problems associated with stuttering. A simultaneous attitude modification phase and a speech fluency enhancing techniques phase define a supervised, ha... | 08/21/2007 |
| 7257557 | Multi-modal testing methodology A method, program and system for administering tests in a distributed data processing network are provided by the present invention. The invention includes combining predetermined test content and multimedia support material into a single encrypted test file. The mu... | 08/14/2007 |
| 7254643 | System and method for providing multi-media services to communication devices over a communications network A method of processing multi-media service requests received at a multi-media services provider computer system, including a processor coupled to a media gateway controller and to a media server. The method includes receiving a message from a SIP INVITE-enabled comm... | 08/07/2007 |
| 7234943 | Analyzing cognitive involvement A system and method for analyzing the cognitive involvement of one or more audience members may include receiving a first indication of cognitive involvement of an audience member in a presentation and calculating a cognitive involvement score from the first indicat... | 06/26/2007 |
| 7236932 | Method of and apparatus for improving productivity of human reviewers of automatically transcribed documents generated by media conversion systems An apparatus for improving productivity of human reviewers of transcribed documents generated by media conversion systems includes a server/client network of computers, memories and file systems. The server receives and stores voice files created by users of the sys... | 06/26/2007 |
| 7216808 | Method for a user to answer questions or queries using electrical contacts A method that allows one to mark information with a pencil or ball point pen on a material and have the marked information represent answers to questions or responses to queries that may be read while the material is contained in an envelope. The material may be any... | 05/15/2007 |
| 7207804 | Application of multi-media technology to computer administered vocational personnel assessment A multi-media method and system performs psychological assessment of an individual for suitability for particular jobs, whereby the individual is shown and provided with discrete visual and auditory stimuli on a multi-media computer screen, so that the individual's ... | 04/24/2007 |
| 7195489 | Education set and work model, training method, work efficiency improving method, and tool employing the same An education set used for education of a work including a series of work steps. The education set includes segment diagrams (105a, 105b, 105c) where work directions for executing the series of work steps, work directions inc... | 03/27/2007 |
| 7197459 | Hybrid machine/human computing arrangement A hybrid machine/human computing arrangement which advantageously involves humans to assist a computer to solve particular tasks, allowing the computer to solve the tasks more efficiently. In one embodiment, a computer system decomposes a task, such as, for example,... | 03/27/2007 |
| 7191096 | Multi-dimensional sequential probability ratio test for detecting failure conditions in computer systems One embodiment of the present invention provides a monitoring system that detects anomalies in data gathered from sensors in a computer system. During operation, the monitoring system samples data from a plurality of sensors located at various sampling points throug... | 03/13/2007 |
| 7182600 | Method and system for teaching vocabulary A method using a spatial-temporal software game for both teaching math concepts to a child and for scoring the child's proficiency in these math concepts. These scores are compared with the child's performance on a language-based test of the math concepts. If the ch... | 02/27/2007 |
| 7181158 | Method and apparatus for enhancing the integrity of mental competency tests Multiple variants of essentially the same multiple-choice questions are generated, having similar appearance, but actually different answers. Any single test has at most one variant of any particular question for which multiple variants exist. Different versions of ... | 02/20/2007 |
| 7162198 | Consolidated Online Assessment System A Consolidated Online Assessment System (COLA System) that creates, manipulates, and distributes an objected-oriented paradigm that represents the scoring and related activities as a unified and integrated family of loosely coupled objects, most notably a “Case”... | 01/09/2007 |
