Pamela J Pearson

US Patent:

20080138785, Jun 12, 2008

Filed:

Aug 24, 2007

Appl. No.:

11/844977

Inventors:

Pamela Pearson - Kansas City MO, US

International Classification:

G09B 3/00

US Classification:

434353000

Abstract:

A method and system for evaluating the progress of a student. Initially, achievement data for the student, including classes of data comprising behavioral data, grade data, reading proficiency data, and standardized test score data, is processed to generate an individual achievement index score for each of the classes of data. A learning profile for the student is then built from the index score data. The behavioral data and the grade data are together classified as social data, and the reading proficiency data and the standardized test score data are together classified as academic data. The social data and the academic data are weighted in accordance with respective predetermined multipliers to generate corresponding social and academic index scores for the student.