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| 434327000 | Correctness of response indicated to examine by self-operating or examinee actuated means | 35 |
| 20080254432 | Evaluating learning progress and making recommendations in a computerized learning environment - A computerized learning method is provided. The method may include receiving performance data for a user from at least one of a plurality of learning application programs, at a learning service program. The method may also include updating a learning level of the user based on the performance data from at least one of the plurality of learning applications, and determining a recommendation for the user based on the updated learning level. The recommendation may be displayed on a graphical user interface of the learning service program. The determination of the recommendation may be based on a measured change in a learning level for a group of users with at least one profile element similar to the user. In this manner, effective recommendations for the user may be made. | 10-16-2008 |
| 20090098523 | Punched Key and Pictorial Code for Identifying True Choice in a Multiple Choice Questions - An answer key for use in answering multiple-choice questions is configured to provide immediate feedback to an examinee as to whether correct response has been made for each question. The key comprises a substrate having a plurality of similar geometric shaped holes and at least one geometric shaped hole being different in characteristic to said plurality of similar geometric shaped holes. Under each multiple question a line coded is printed comprising a plurality of similar shaped drawings and at least one shaped drawing which are arranged in X row. The at least one shaped drawing is shaped differently from said plurality of similar shaped drawings, wherein one of the similar shaped drawings corresponds to said correct response. The correct response is identified by placing the answer key on the coded line. | 04-16-2009 |
| 20090130644 | Test Question Constructing Method And Apparatus, Test Sheet Fabricated Using The Method, And Computer-Readable Recording Medium Storing Test Question Constructing Program For Executing The Method - The present invention relates to a test question constructing method and apparatus, a test sheet fabricated using the method, and a computer-readable medium storing a test question constructing program for executing the method. In a case where multiple testees simultaneously take a test, correct answer arrangements are made different by the testees through mixing of choices. Further, the correct answer arrangement is adjusted such that correct answers may be not poorly distributed to a specific choice. In particular, the correct answer arrangements of adjacent testees are adjusted to be different from one another. Therefore, cheating, for example, one testee shows other testees the answers or sneaks a look at an answer sheets of other testees, can be prevented. According to the present invention, an ability to classify the testees which was a blind point of a multiple-choice objective test can be markedly improved. | 05-21-2009 |
| 20090253113 | Methods and systems for facilitating learning based on neural modeling - Methods and systems for promoting learning by presenting multiple concepts and forcing the viewer to imagine the relationship between them. Students can take notes by choosing clues and answers as they study. A flowchart indicating a teaching method is illustrated in FIG. | 10-08-2009 |
| 20100273139 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING AN ANSWER - A method of providing an answer, comprising receiving a criteria, identifying a subset of a set of answers in a data store based on the criteria, calculating a random value for each of the answers in the subset, ranking the subset of answers based on the random values, selecting one of the answers of the subset based on the ranking; and providing an output including the selected answer. | 10-28-2010 |
| 20110189644 | Self-Correcting Learning Tray With Inserted Cards - A self-correcting learning tray is described comprising a see-through base and lid. Cards are inserted into the base to underlay the answer cells with the answer possibilities for the activity. There are two shapes of cards. One shape enables the card to also underlay the base as well as the lid. The other shape enables the card to sit under the answer cells of the base with the remainder protruding outside of the coverage area of the tray. Each card is printed with a unique pattern on the reverse side. Each tile has a component of that pattern printed on it. The answer is revealed by turning the tray over and sliding out the card, where the answer printed on the card should match the answer comprised by the tiles in the base of the tray. | 08-04-2011 |
| 20110262889 | DEVICE FOR PROMOTING LEARNING OF SKILLS AND CONCEPTS AND METHOD OF USING SAME - A method and apparatus for encouraging a student to continue practicing skills until mastery of the skills is achieved. The method and apparatus present assigned exercises sequentially to a student, and evaluates the student's response. An assignment comprising a finite number of questions, a maximum number of attempts to answer each of the finite number of questions, and a required minimum number of correct answers to the finite number of questions is designed for a user. A learning device presents the user with a question from the finite number of questions that has not been attempted by the user. If the user supplies an incorrect answer to the question, the user chooses to either accept the incorrect answer, or to repeat an attempt to answer the question with new parameters. If the maximum number of attempts to answer the question is not exhausted, the learning device supplies new parameters to the question and presents the question with new parameters to the user, and the learning device reduces the available maximum number attempts to answer the question by one. | 10-27-2011 |
| 20130029308 | METHODS AND COMPUTER-PROGRAM PRODUCTS FOR TEACHING A TOPIC TO A USER - Aspects of the invention provide methods and computer-program products for teaching a topic to a user. One aspect of the invention provides a method for teaching a topic to a user. The method includes: administering one or more question to assess the user's knowledge of the topic; displaying a first interactive pedagogical agent and a second interactive pedagogical agent; and facilitating a trialog between the user, the first interactive pedagogical agent, and the second interactive pedagogical agent. | 01-31-2013 |
| 20140370481 | POLYGRAPH REPORT SYSTEM THAT IS EQUIPMENT AGNOSTIC - Described herein are techniques related to a polygraph report system that is equipment agnostic. This Abstract is submitted with the understanding that it will not be used to interpret or limit the scope or meaning of the claims. | 12-18-2014 |
| 20140370482 | PEDAGOGICAL ELEMENTS IN VIRTUAL LABS - A virtual lab is generated for a underlying learning objective defined by a lab instructor. The virtual lab is decomposed into multiple lab steps. Each lab step defines a portion of the underlying learning objective that can be performed independently. Each lab step includes pedagogical information for teaching a learner the portion of the underlying learning objective and information for specifying a portion of the underlying system that will execute the lab step. A first portion of the underlying system is caused to execute a first lab step. This allows the learner to perform the portion of the underlying learning objective defined in the first lab step. An event generated by the learner's performance of the first lab step is received. In response, a specific pedagogical procedure that is dictated by the event is caused to be performed. | 12-18-2014 |
| 20160155348 | Method for Online Learning | 06-02-2016 |
| 20160163213 | Symbol Image Education Apparatus and Method Therefor - The present invention relates to a symbol image education apparatus and a method therefor, and more particularly, to a symbol image education method and an apparatus therefor, the symbol image education method including the steps of: outputting a question regarding a symbol image corresponding to a predetermined letter; receiving an answer to the outputted question from a user; determining whether the answer received from the user is the correct answer to the outputted question; and outputting whether the answer received from the user is the correct answer to the outputted question, wherein the symbol image having a predetermined shape is formed in a position corresponding to a margin position of an image of the letter. | 06-09-2016 |
| 434332000 | Reward dispensed for correct answer | 1 |
| 20080254433 | Learning trophies in a computerized learning environment - A computerized learning method is provided. The method typically includes, receiving user performance data from each of a plurality of learning application programs, at a learning service program, and determining an assessed user learning level based on the user performance data. The method may further include awarding a trophy to the user upon determining that the assessed user learning level meets or exceeds a predetermined learning level threshold. | 10-16-2008 |
| 434335000 | By means including electrical component | 21 |
| 20080299531 | System And Method For Training Employee - A system and method of training a plurality of employees includes a handheld device having a display, an input, and a processor in data communication with the display and input. The processor includes programming for actuating the display to ask the employees a plurality of questions and to record answers entered through the input. The method further includes having the employees answer questions and includes reviewing the answers to the questions. The handheld device may include a receiver and the programming may be delivered to the processor using a transmitter. Alternatively, the programming may be placed on a memory device and the memory device may be placed in data communication with the processor. Further, the step of reviewing the answers to the questions may include having a machine score at least one answer and having a person consider at least one answer. | 12-04-2008 |
| 20090202969 | CUSTOMIZED LEARNING AND ASSESSMENT OF STUDENT BASED ON PSYCHOMETRIC MODELS - A method, a device and a computer readable storage medium for conducting a customized educational session to assess or teach a student by selecting contents for presentation to the student based on descriptors associated with questions and/or incorrect responses. The contents presented include both questions for assessing the student's knowledge state and intervention materials for teaching the student. The descriptors associated with the questions and incorrect responses are analyzed using one or more psychometric models to estimate the deficiency or weakness of the student's learning. Next contents are selected or created based on the estimated deficiency or weakness in the student's learning. | 08-13-2009 |
| 20100035225 | ADAPTIVE SPACED TEACHING METHOD AND SYSTEM - The system of the present invention provides interactive spaced education and combines the pedagogical merits of the spacing effect and the testing effect to improve a learner's ability to learn and retain conceptual items. A test item, such as a question or educational material regarding a concept, is delivered, a learner's response is recorded, and the correct answer to the test item is provided. Future delivery of additional test items is customized with regard to its content, difficulty, and time interval based on information from the learner's response(s). The electronic delivery includes a structured repetition over spaced intervals of time as well as retesting the learner with subsequent test items based on new levels of difficulty, new delivery intervals, and new content areas. The present invention, by combining spaced education with adaptive learning, improves the learner's ability to learn, recall, and retain items of information. | 02-11-2010 |
| 20100190145 | DEVICE, SYSTEM, AND METHOD OF KNOWLEDGE ACQUISITION - Device, system, and method of knowledge acquisition. For example, a system for computerized knowledge acquisition includes: a knowledge level testing module to present to a student a first set of questions in a modality at one or more difficulty levels, to receive from the student answers to said first set of questions, and to update a knowledge map of said student based on said answers; a guided knowledge acquisition module to present to the student a second set of questions in said modality, wherein the second set of questions corresponds to educational items for which it is determined that the student's performance in the first set of questions is below a threshold value; and a recycler module to present to the student an interactive game and a third set of questions in said modality, wherein the third set of questions corresponds to educational items for which it is determined that the student's performance in the first set of questions is equal to or greater than said pre-defined threshold. | 07-29-2010 |
| 20100233666 | 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 discourse element category is calculated. The probability is based on the determinations of whether each feature in the set of features is present or absent. Furthermore, based on the calculated probabilities, a sentence is chosen as the choice for the discourse element category. | 09-16-2010 |
| 20120189999 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR USING OPTICAL CHARACTER RECOGNITION TO EVALUATE STUDENT WORKSHEETS - A system and method for evaluating worksheets are provided. The method includes accessing by a processor a digitally stored image of a worksheet that was administered to a student, wherein the worksheet includes the presentation of at least one problem for the student to respond to and each problem presentation includes an answer region that the student manually, mechanically, or electronically marked with an answer to the problem using a variety of alphanumeric characters. The method further includes generating expected answer data that provides an expected answer for each answer region; locating each answer region in the image; extracting from each located answer region the student's marks; processing the student's marks extracted from each answer region with character recognition processing; and storing the processed marks as student answer data. The student answer data is evaluated by comparing the student answer data with the expected answer data and generating corresponding evaluation data. | 07-26-2012 |
| 20120282587 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR GENERATING AND IMPLEMENTING INDIVIDUALIZED EDUCATIONAL PRACTICE WORKSHEETS - A method and system generates and administers an individualized student worksheet. A set of problems and a unique embedded data pattern are generated and printed on a worksheet substrate. A teacher may point a camera pen point at an area of the pattern to identify the substrate and a location on the substrate. Based on this information, the method and system may access a worksheet file to identify the problem whose physical position corresponds to the captured embedded data. The system may present the problem's solution to the teacher, who may then use the pen to mark the problem as correct or incorrect, and optionally annotate notes for the student, teacher or others. The camera pen may collect the teacher's marks and annotations and store them with the worksheet file for later retrieval. | 11-08-2012 |
| 20130040276 | ILLUMINATION DEVICE AND INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE - According to an embodiment, an illumination device includes a light source whose emission intensity is controllable; an identifying unit configured to identify an activity of a user; and a light source controller configured to control the emission intensity of the light source so that a level of arousal of the user becomes lower than a predetermined level when the identified activity is a learning activity representing an activity to form a memory in the brain of the user. | 02-14-2013 |
| 20130183650 | Answer Text Knolwdge Network - A messaging system using text-messaging protocol (limited to 160 characters) for automated delivery, at user-defined intervals, of multiple-choice questions (“Challenges”) to targeted electronic devices. The individual to whom the Challenges are directed, or adult in the case of a minor, must self-select their profile and opt-in to the service; no unsolicited Challenges are allowed to be delivered. The outcome of the interaction with the system is an award that is measured in objective, alpha-numeric values (“Achievements”). | 07-18-2013 |
| 20130203035 | LEARNING SUPPORT SYSTEM AND METHOD - The present invention is a learning support system which supports learning on a computer comprising means for reading a question sheet on a computer as an image, means for identifying each problem from the image, means for entering whether correct answer was obtained or not for each problem on the question sheet, and means for identifying components of problems entered as incorrect in the means for entering whether correct answer was obtained or not on a database. | 08-08-2013 |
| 20130302773 | SELF-CONCEPT IMPLICIT ASSOCIATION TEST - The methods and systems described herein enable the administration of Implicit Association Tests (IATs) without the use of “self-concept” or “self-report.” An example method involves a computing system providing a visual indication of categories including (i) a user-associated-objects category (ii) a user-unassociated-objects category, (iii) a positivevalence-objects category, and (iv) a negative-valence-objects category. The categories are grouped into a first group and a second group. The computing system provides an indication of a stimulus. The stimulus may be associated with at least one of the categories. The computing system may then receive input data indicating a correct classification of the stimulus with one of the first group and the second group. Ultimately, the computing system determines an amount of time elapsed between providing the indication of the stimulus and receiving the input data indicating the correct classification of the stimulus with one of the first group and the second group. | 11-14-2013 |
| 20140205986 | BRAIN BASED LEARNING METHOD - A brain research-based learning method is provided. The learning method begins by a user viewing a presentation that provides a quantity of information to the user. During the viewing, the user may answer a plurality of periodic prompts on a computer relating to the presentation. After the presentation, the user may answer a series of questions on a computer. Later, at periodic intervals after the presentation the user is provided a second series of questions to reinforce the learned information. In the event of an incorrectly answered question, the computer may provide an alert. Further, after the presentation, a long term memory storage activity may be performed by the user using a computer. Finally the learning progress of the user may be provided using the at least one computer. | 07-24-2014 |
| 20150104778 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR COMPUTER BASED MENTORSHIP - A computerized interactive learning system includes a display device and a compatible input device. The display device provides work items to a learner. The input device detects input activities from the learner in response to the work item. The system analyzes the input activities at two or more tiered levels of granularity. The display device provides conditional feedback to the learner based on the analysis. The input device and the display device can be incorporated into an integrated touchscreen. | 04-16-2015 |
| 20150332594 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MEMORIZING A NARRATIVE - The system and method for memorizing a narrative comprises a user interface equipped with common hardware including a pointing device, microphone, and a display. It further comprises an analogue to digital converter for converting analogue speech to digital signals, a comparator for comparing digital signals to a narrative stored and accessible from the main memory of a computing device, and an alert or for alerting a user when the comparison of digital signals to the stored narrative mismatches. | 11-19-2015 |
| 434336000 | Response of plural examinees communicated to monitor or recorder by electrical signals | 7 |
| 20080261192 | SYNCHRONOUS MULTI-MEDIA RECORDING AND PLAYBACK WITH END USER CONTROL OF TIME, DATA, AND EVENT VISUALIZATION FOR PLAYBACK CONTROL OVER A NETWORK - A system and system are provided for providing synchronous multimedia recording and playback. Aspects the exemplary embodiment include in response to a training session is being conducted, synchronously recording in real-time simulator data from a simulator captured by a simulator capture tool, and video of the training session captured by a plurality of A/V sources; encoding each of the videos captured by the plurality of A/V sources as respective digital media files formatted as streaming media; and transmitting both the simulator data and the video media files from a server to a client over a network, such that when the client receives the simulator data and the stream, the respective videos are synchronously played back with the simulator data on the client | 10-23-2008 |
| 20100120009 | LEARNING REINFORCEMENT SYSTEM - A learning system, method and computer program product is provided that assesses and reinforces the content of learning course. The system sends a plurality of electronic messages to a course participant at a predetermined interval where each message contains at least one of a plurality of questions entered into memory. Each message further comprises at least two possible answers associated with each of the at least one question of the plurality of questions. The system provides means to directly receive and record a participant's selected answer and can also be used to communicate additional information to a course participant. The system tracks and records a number of data points useful to determine an individual participants understanding of the course, the understanding of the participants as a whole, response rates to the electronic message sent to each participant, and the like. | 05-13-2010 |
| 20120258435 | METHOD FOR CONDUCTING AN ASSESSMENT AND A PARTICIPANT RESPONSE SYSTEM EMPLOYING THE SAME - A computerized method comprises creating an answer key for an assessment comprising one or more questions to be delivered to one or more participants, where the answer key comprises assessment information and question information; delivering the assessment to the participants; collecting responses from the participants; and saving question descriptions, any annotations made thereon and the collected responses. | 10-11-2012 |
| 20120329028 | METHOD FOR INTELLIGENT PERSONALIZED LEARNING SERVICE - In a method of offering an intelligent personalized learning service to learning participants, a pointer is assigned to each learning object and associated with each learning object belonging to a learning object database. A learning subject specific to each learning participant is selected from a learning subject database. Information on attempts at the learning objects associated with selected learning subject is recorded on learning history information of each learning participant. Performance completion information is recorded with respect to the learning objects attempted by the learning participant on the learning history information of each learning participant. A proficiency status of the learning participant is diagnosed for the selected learning subject corresponding to the learning participant based on the learning history information of each learning participant. | 12-27-2012 |
| 20140024006 | QUESTION SETTING APPARATUS AND METHOD - A question setting apparatus is disclosed, including a processor and a storage part. The storage stores problem information which maintains problem data including a problem and a correct answer of the problem included in a test sent to students, and student answer information which maintains answer data and a correct/incorrect answer determination result for each of the students. The processor processes test operations of referring to the problem information, sending the problem data to the student terminals, receiving the answer data from the student terminals in a given time for the test, and recording the answer data in the student answer information. The processor processes a progress display. A progress state is displayed in the given time and indicates an answer state of the problem data based on the correct/incorrect answer determination result. A display instruction is sent to the student terminals to stop the test. | 01-23-2014 |
| 20150317907 | COMPUTER-AIDED INTEGRATED EXAMINATION AND ASSIGNMENT SYSTEM AND METHOD - The present invention enables a teacher to author questions for examination and assignments so that students working the Internet or an Intranet can type their answers from their systems and submit for marks and feedbacks. For each question, teacher also provides standard answers which are coded. Once students submit their answers, their answers are compared against the standard answers and, after evaluation of each student's response in relation to a teacher-authored standard answer, marks are awarded to the students and the system provides automatic feedback. The system further provides for re-analysis of student's answer if satisfactory answers are not written by students and the student's answer are compared against a database of wrong answers owing to misconception, logical problems etc. The present invention further provides for inclusion of alternative answers detected in student's answer and sends such alternative answers to the examination/assignment originator for inclusion in the standard answer. | 11-05-2015 |
| 20160171902 | Mathematical Language Processing: Automatic Grading and Feedback for Open Response Mathematical Questions | 06-16-2016 |
| 434348000 | Correct answer hidden until examinee moves element | 1 |
| 20140356838 | Education Game Systems and Methods - The present disclosure provides education game systems and methods that display test problems including answer options, wherein the systems and methods enable a user to drag the answer options from the test problem to an answer receiving location to improve the user's test taking skills, thereby improving their overall score on standardized exams. | 12-04-2014 |
