Education and demonstration – Question or problem eliciting response – Response of plural examinees communicated to monitor or...
Reexamination Certificate
1997-11-14
2001-03-27
Harrison, Jessica J. (Department: 3713)
Education and demonstration
Question or problem eliciting response
Response of plural examinees communicated to monitor or...
C434S322000
Reexamination Certificate
active
06208832
ABSTRACT:
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
The present invention relates generally to a learning system with random assignments, conferencing, modeling, and analyzation of student responses, and more particularly to a learning system, such as a language learning system, having a student response analyzer feature in which the test taking process is automated and in which student responses/answers are analyzed and displayed in various manners.
Various existing learning systems, including language learning systems, are comprised of a number of student consoles and a teacher console. A teacher of a class utilizes the teacher console to monitor students during the instruction of a specific subject such as a foreign language. Some language learning systems supply the teacher, after the commencement of a test, with the students' test results and further include the capability of allowing the teacher to maintain notes within the language learning system on each of the students. Current language learning systems further provide the capability of allowing a teacher to setup a “conference”, wherein selected students are able to communicate with one another via their respective headphones and microphones.
Although current language learning systems have advanced well beyond the more traditional utilization of a single tape recorder to teach a foreign language, existing devices have various shortcomings. For example, current systems do not integrate individual student data into the education process, and do not allow for the teacher to see who she/he is working with. Further, such systems do not allow for the easy compilation of various data (e.g., the student answers). Still, further such systems do not automatically analyze student responses, and do not provide for the automation of student testing and automation or student response analyzation. Finally, current systems simply remain difficult and time-consuming to use requiring the teacher to spend more time operating the system and less time interacting with and teaching the students.
OBJECTS OF THE INVENTION
Accordingly, it is an object of the invention to provide an improved learning system which overcomes the shortcomings of existing learning devices.
A further object of the invention is to provide an improved learning system having a graphical user interface which provides for the easy coupling of student and class data to specific interface/input devices.
Another object of the invention is to provide an improved learning system which allows for the random assignment of students to various groups.
An additional object of the invention is to provide an improved learning system in which a particular formed group can act as a model to all other students not in the group.
A still further object of the invention is to provide an improved learning system in which all students in a randomly formed group are switched to receive input from one particular master unit.
Still, another object of this invention is to provide a so-called response analyzer in the learning system for the purpose of automating student testing.
Still, an additional object of this invention is to provide for the synchronized control of the learning system hardware and a personal computer/RGB/mouse switching network.
Various other objects, advantages and features of the present invention will become readily apparent to those of ordinary skill in the art, and the novel features will be particularly pointed out in the appended claims.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
In accordance with one embodiment of the invention, a learning system and corresponding method are provided with a plurality of student units for use by students, a plurality of master units and a teacher unit. The teacher unit includes a computer having a graphical user interface that operates to control the student units to record student responses/answers, to control selected student units to reproduce the respective recorded information in a predetermined format, and to control the master unit(s) to record the information output by the selected student units.
As one aspect of the present invention, the computer allows the user (i.e., teacher) to enter a question begin instruction that represents the beginning of a current question, and the computer, in response thereto, displays various information corresponding to the respective current question. Such information includes the amount of elapsed time of the current question, the question number, the number of students who currently have responded to the current question, the ratio of students who currently have responded to the current question to the total number of students, and a graph having a plurality of columns that correspond to a respective possible answer, and within each of the columns the number of students currently selecting the respective corresponding answer is displayed.
As another aspect of the present invention, the computer automatically ends (“closes”) the current question when a pre-selected condition is satisfied. The computer may end a question when a predetermined amount of time has elapsed, when a predetermined percentage of students have supplied the correct response, when a predetermined percentage of students have responded to the current question, and when a predetermined number of students have responded to the current question.
As a feature of this aspect, the user may identify selected questions in a test to be automatically closed.
As another feature of this aspect, the user may identify those questions to be automatically closed when a first pre-selected condition is satisfied, and identify those questions to be automatically closed when a second preselected condition is satisfied.
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Frommer William S.
Frommer & Lawrence & Haug LLP
Harris Chanda
Harrison Jessica J.
Kessler Gordon
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