Patent ID: 6916180
Filing Date: 2005-07-12
Classification: G06Q,G09B

Abstract:
1. A method of evaluating an educational program for children ages 0 to 5 years old, comprising the steps of: (a) developing criteria which address strengths and weaknesses of the educational program, wherein said criteria includes each of (a1) through (a3) following: (b) determining how the criteria relates to the educational program, and storing results from said determining step for use by an electronic computational device; (c) determining from said stored results, a numerical value for each of a plurality of different portions of the results; wherein said plurality of different portions of the results includes data for assigning such a numerical value to at least some of the following (c1) through (c5) following: (d) using a computational device for combining said assigned numerical values for obtaining an overall rating for the educational program, wherein said overall rating designates a quality of child care; (e) assigning the overall rating to the educational program; (f) providing a communications network interface for accessing the overall rating of the educational program; and (g) transmitting the overall rating to a user accessing the network interface so that the overall rating can be presented to the user.