Patent ID: 6256399
Filing Date: 2001-07-03
Classification: G09B

Abstract:
A method of distributing digitized electronic representations of responses to non-objective assessment tasks to a reader to train the reader to determine scores for such responses in accordance with a scoring criteria, comprising the steps of:providing a criteria for scoring responses to a non-objective assessment task;providing a batch of representative responses to the non-objective assessment task;providing an established score for each of the representative responses in accordance with the scoring criteria;creating a digitized electronic representation of said responses;storing the digitized representations of the responses in an electronic file;storing the established scores for the responses in an electronic file;providing a reader station having a display screen for displaying digitized information to a reader;distributing the digitized representations of responses and the established scores to the reader station;training a reader to score in accordance with the scoring criteria by the substeps of:(a) displaying digitized representations of responses to the reader on the display screen;(b) recording the score assigned by the reader to each response in the batch;(c) providing to the reader the established scores for the responses for comparison to the reader's scores;(d) repeating training steps (a) through (c) with different digitized representations of responses until the reader has demonstrated an ability to assign scores corresponding to the established scores with an acceptable consistency.