| Patent Number |
Title Of Patent |
Date Issued |
| 7574047 |
Method and system for performing image mark recognition |
August 11, 2009 |
| A method and system for performing image mark recognition for a document is disclosed. A document is scanned into a digital image. Reference image marks are sensed from the digital image. The reference image marks may include trigger row marks and/or corner/crop marks. Coordinates denoti |
| 7536273 |
Method and system for computer-assisted test construction performing specification matching duri |
May 19, 2009 |
| A method and system for constructing a test using a computer system that performs specification matching during the test creation process is disclosed. A test developer determines one or more test item databases from which to select test items. The test item databases are organized b |
| 7519810 |
Methods for conducting server-side encryption/decryption-on-demand |
April 14, 2009 |
| A method and system for encryption and decryption of data files on a web-based computer system includes encrypting the data file in a memory subsystem, such as RAM, storing the encrypted data file in one or more of a plurality of memory locations, analyzing and modifying the encrypted |
| 7466958 |
Equation editor |
December 16, 2008 |
| An on-line teaching and learning system with rapid change-by-change or real time reinforcement signals for students and simultaneous monitoring by the teacher of the actual responses as well as their correctness is disclosed. The system may include at least one teacher computer, a pl |
| 7457581 |
Latent property diagnosing procedure |
November 25, 2008 |
| 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 binary (dichotomous |
| 7440725 |
Method of evaluation fit of raw data to model data |
October 21, 2008 |
| 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 parameters based on |
| 7418458 |
Method for estimating examinee attribute parameters in a cognitive diagnosis model |
August 26, 2008 |
| A method and system for determining attribute score levels from an assessment are disclosed. An assessment includes items each testing for at least one attribute. A first distribution is generated having a response propensity represented by a highest level of execution for each attri |
| 7392187 |
Method and system for the automatic generation of speech features for scoring high entropy speec |
June 24, 2008 |
| A method and system for automatically generating a scoring model for scoring a speech sample are disclosed. One or more training speech samples are received in response to a prompt. One or more speech features are determined for each of the training speech samples. A scoring model is |
| 7373102 |
Cooccurrence and constructions |
May 13, 2008 |
| 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 appear in a corpus. A |
| 7298902 |
Method and system for performing image mark recognition |
November 20, 2007 |
| A method and system for performing image mark recognition for a document is disclosed. A document is scanned into a digital image. Reference image marks are sensed from the digital image. The reference image marks may include trigger row marks and/or corner/crop marks. Coordinates denoti |
| 7217134 |
Accessibility of testing within a validity framework |
May 15, 2007 |
| Methods for designing an assessment and providing accessibility features for a test taker profile are disclosed. A test taker profile, including multiple knowledge, skill and other attribute(s) (KSAs), is defined in which each KSA has a specific level. Each KSA is designated as either a |
| 7165012 |
Method and system for computer-assisted test construction performing specification matching duri |
January 16, 2007 |
| A method and system for constructing a test using a computer system that performs specification matching during the test creation process is disclosed. A test developer determines one or more test item databases from which to select test items. The test item databases are organized b |
| 7162198 |
Consolidated Online Assessment System |
January 9, 2007 |
| 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" representing a state- |
| 7127208 |
Automated annotation |
October 24, 2006 |
| 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 been generated by a |
| 7095979 |
Method of evaluation fit of raw data to model data |
August 22, 2006 |
| 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 parameters based on |
| 7092987 |
Remote computer capabilities querying and certification |
August 15, 2006 |
| A remote client computer performance/compatibility querying and certification system allows a server to remotely gather performance/capability information from a client computer, such as its processor class or family, display resolution capability, installed software components, peri |
| 7088949 |
Automated essay scoring |
August 8, 2006 |
| 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, a score is deter |
| 6898411 |
Method and system for online teaching using web pages |
May 24, 2005 |
| A teaching and learning method and system (143, 145, 147, 148, 152) communicates exercises, including URL's of Web pages and questions related thereto. Each exercise is distributed by the teacher's computer (143), synchronously, or downloaded by a student computer (147), asynchronously. |
| 6832069 |
Latent property diagnosing procedure |
December 14, 2004 |
| 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 binary (dichotomous) |
| 6816702 |
Consolidated online assessment system |
November 9, 2004 |
| 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" representing a state- |
| 6796800 |
Methods for automated essay analysis |
September 28, 2004 |
| 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 |
| 6658412 |
Computer-based method and system for linking records in data files |
December 2, 2003 |
| The present invention relates to computer-based technology for linking or matching records in data files, based on at least one identifier in common, with a threshold probability that records are linked, the method uses a Bayesian probabilistic approach to determine the likelihood that |
| 6526258 |
Methods and systems for presentation and evaluation of constructed responses assessed by human e |
February 25, 2003 |
| The present invention provides systems and methods for controlled presentation of constructed responses through a variety of computer applications to human evaluators for assessment. The systems and methods further provide for controlled presentation of the constructed responses to m |
| 6484010 |
Tree-based approach to proficiency scaling and diagnostic assessment |
November 19, 2002 |
| A method for diagnostic assessment and proficiency scaling of test results is provided. The method uses as input a vector of item difficulty estimates for each of n items and a matrix of hypothesized skill classifications for each of said n items on each of skills. The method include |
| 6442370 |
System and method for computer based test creation |
August 27, 2002 |
| A computer-based test creation system and method for generating test items. The test creation process includes creating items in electronic form and allowing access by a plurality of reviewers via a network. The reviewers may review the item for content, fairness and format, and collabor |
| 6366759 |
System and method for computer-based automatic essay scoring |
April 2, 2002 |
| A method of grading an essay using an automated essay scoring system is provided. The method comprises the automated steps of (a) parsing the essay to produce parsed text, wherein the parsed text is a syntactic representation of the essay, (b) using the parsed text to create a vector |
| 6295439 |
Methods and systems for presentation and evaluation of constructed responses assessed by human e |
September 25, 2001 |
| The present invention provide systems and methods for controlled presentation of constructed responses through a variety of computer applications to human evaluators for assessment. The systems and methods further provide for controlled presentation of the constructed responses to mi |
| 6259890 |
System and method for computer based test creation |
July 10, 2001 |
| A computer-based test creation system and method for generating test items. The test creation process includes creating items in electronic form and allowing access by a plurality of reviewers via a network. The reviewers may review the item for content, fairness and format, and collabor |
| 6254395 |
System and method for automated testing of writing skill |
July 3, 2001 |
| A system and method for administering a composition problem in a language, such as English, to an examinee. The examinee is provided with textual items such as brief essays needing correction. The examinee selects a predetermined segment of the text and moves it to an editing window wher |
| 6234806 |
System and method for interactive scoring of standardized test responses |
May 22, 2001 |
| A system and associated method for interactively scoring standardized test responses. The system maintains a database of tests, items that make up the tests, and features that make up the items. A user of the system requests a list of items in the database, and the system responds by |
| 6181909 |
System and method for computer-based automatic essay scoring |
January 30, 2001 |
| A method of grading an essay using an automated essay scoring system is provided. The method comprises the automated steps of (a) parsing the essay to produce parsed text, wherein the parsed text is a syntactic representation of the essay, (b) using the parsed text to create a vector |
| 6120299 |
System and method for interactive scoring of standardized test responses |
September 19, 2000 |
| A system and associated method for interactively scoring standardized test responses. The system maintains a database of tests, items that make up the tests, and features that make up the items. A user of the system requests a list of items in the database, and the system responds by |
| 6115683 |
Automatic essay scoring system using content-based techniques |
September 5, 2000 |
| A system for carrying out a content-based process for automatically scoring essays is disclosed. The system includes a computer; a data storage device; a parse tree file stored in the data storage device, the parse tree file being representative of an essay in a parse tree format; a |
| 6056556 |
Computer-based simulation examination of architectural practice |
May 2, 2000 |
| The present invention relates to computer-based technology in assessment particularly for the licensing and certification of professionals such as architects and engineers. For assessment of architects, the system includes tools and methods for item creation, computer programs for co |
| 6000945 |
System and method for computer based test assembly |
December 14, 1999 |
| A computer-based test assembly system and method for generating an assembly of test items. The test assembly process includes creating tests in electronic form from already-existing test items and allowing access by a plurality of assembly personnel and reviewers via a network. Assembler |
| 5991595 |
Computerized system for scoring constructed responses and methods for training, monitoring, and |
November 23, 1999 |
| Systems and methods for presentation to raters of constructed responses to test questions in electronic workfolders. The systems and methods provide for selection and designation of constructed responses into categories for use in quality control functions and training applications. A st |
| 5987302 |
On-line essay evaluation system |
November 16, 1999 |
| Systems and methods for on-line essay evaluation offer students the opportunity to prepare practice essays, submit the essays to trained, expert readers, and retrieve an evaluation at the student's convenience. The system provides the capability for a user or test taker to submit ess |
| 5893717 |
Computerized method and system for teaching prose, document and quantitative literacy |
April 13, 1999 |
| A multimedia computerized literacy system providing for and enhancing the teaching of Literacy Skills to enable people to function more effectively in schools, society, and the workplace. The design of the system is based on the identification and understanding of the structures, content |
| 5869789 |
Image digitizer with page number detector and recorder |
February 9, 1999 |
| A digitizer system having a page recognition system and a method of using such digitizer system is disclosed. The page recognition system detects a page number pre-coded on a sheet of paper when the sheet of paper is mounted onto the digitizer system. When a sheet of paper which was |
| 5841655 |
Method and system for controlling item exposure in computer based testing |
November 24, 1998 |
| A method and system for item exposure control in computer based testing. A set of exposure control parameters representing the probability that an item selected from an item pool is administered to a test taker for each item in the pool is generated through computer based test simulation |
| 5827070 |
System and methods for computer based testing |
October 27, 1998 |
| The present invention provides a system and method for computer based testing. The system of the present invention comprises a test development system for producing a computerized test, a test delivery system for delivering the computerized test to an examinee, and a workstation on w |
| 5657256 |
Method and apparatus for administration of computerized adaptive tests |
August 12, 1997 |
| A method is disclosed for incorporating into the construction of adaptive tests expert test development practices. The method is an application of a weighted deviations model and an heuristic for automated item selection. Taken into account are the number and complexity of constraints on |
| 5565316 |
System and method for computer based testing |
October 15, 1996 |
| The present invention provides a system and method for computer based testing. The system of the present invention comprises a test development system for producing a computerized test, a test delivery system for delivering the computerized test to an examinee, and a workstation on w |
| 5513994 |
Centralized system and method for administering computer based tests |
May 7, 1996 |
| The invention provides a centralized administrative system and method of administering standardized tests to a plurality of examinees. The administrative system according to the present invention is implemented on a central administration workstation and at least one testing workstation |
| 5434931 |
System and method for picture image processing employing transformation of picture data |
July 18, 1995 |
| A method of picture image processing, and system for carrying out same, involves generation of a composite mapping function, for transforming gray scale values to different values in order to enhance contrast. A reduced range histogram is generated, involving removing a percentage of the |
| 5259766 |
Method and system for interactive computer science testing, anaylsis and feedback |
November 9, 1993 |
| Disclosed is a method and system for administering to a student a problem in computer science for testing, analysis and feedback. The student is provided with an item pool of predetermined test problems to be selected by the student. The student inputs a solution in response to the probl |
| 5211564 |
Computerized figural response testing system and method |
May 18, 1993 |
| A method and system for interactive test taking is provided, having a computer with memory, an image display screen, and a pointing device such as a mouse for examinee manipulation of symbols or objects on the screen. Starting figural material is presented on the screen along with a prob |
| 5194966 |
Optical scanner threshold setting method and sheet |
March 16, 1993 |
| A method for the optimization of optical scanners by automatically determining image processing threshold values using a novel threshold calibration sheet. The calibration sheet image has lines at a forty-five degree angle to the path of the document through the scanner and has a pre |
| 5059127 |
Computerized mastery testing system, a computer administered variable length sequential testing |
October 22, 1991 |
| A computerized mastery testing system providing for the computerized implementation of sequential testing in order to reduce test length without sacrificing mastery classification accuracy. The mastery testing system is based on Item Response Theory and Bayesian Decision Theory which |
| 5011413 |
Machine-interpretable figural response testing |
April 30, 1991 |
| This invention provides automatic testing systems and methods for testing for figural responses to a test inquiry. The testing system includes a test sheet of predetermined dimensions having a grid with a plurality of marking areas arranged in predetermined position and a figural arrange |
