Patent ID: 8152530
Filing Date: 2012-04-10
Classification: G06Q,G09B

Abstract:
1. A method of evaluating an educational program for children ages up to 5 years old, comprising the steps of: (a) obtaining criteria for evaluating the educational program; and (b) evaluating the educational program for obtaining evaluation data related to the criteria; (c) determining from said evaluation data, a plurality of ratings for the criteria, wherein each rating of the plurality of ratings is determined by determining an effectiveness of the educational program according to a different collection of one or more of (c1) through (c22) following: (d) providing said plurality of ratings to a computational device for combining to obtain an overall rating for the educational program, wherein said overall rating designates a quality of childcare for the educational program; (e) providing a communications network interface for accessing the overall rating of the educational program via a communications network; and (f) transmitting the overall rating to a user accessing the network interface so that the overall rating can be presented to the user; (g) identifying the weak areas of the educational program; (h) developing an improvement process to address the weak areas; (i) identifying the strong areas of the educational program; (j) developing a maintenance program to maintain the strength of the educational program; k) implementing the maintenance programs and the improvement processes; (l) reevaluating the educational program, at some later point in time, to determine the extent of improvement and maintenance; (m) revising the program after said step of reevaluating to provide flexibility to the improvement processes and maintenance programs; (n) providing an annual overall rating to the educational program; and (o) assessing the overall rating on a bi-annual, semesterly, quarterly, or monthly assessment.