Patent ID: 7311524
Filing Date: 2007-12-25
Classification: G09B

Abstract:
1. A method of producing a plurality of standardized academic curriculum-independent General Outcome Measures (GOMs) of substantially equal difficulty for a particular academic grade level for use in identifying students at risk for not meeting minimum target scores on an academic standardized test for the particular academic grade level, said method comprising the steps of: (A) selecting a set of criteria for use in preparing standardized curriculum-independent GOMs for a particular academic grade level; (B) preparing a plurality of proposed GOMs using said selected criteria; (C) selecting a plurality of students in said particular academic grade level satisfying a predefined test group, each of said students of said predefined test group having known test scores from a previously completed standardized test with a known minimum target score; (D) testing each of said plurality of students from said predefined test group with said plurality of proposed GOMs and recording each of said student's GOM test scores for each of said proposed GOMs; (E) culling those GOMs from said plurality of proposed GOMs tested having significant disparity of test scores by student of said predefined test group, thereby resulting in a preliminary set of GOMs; (F) calculating a mean score and a standard deviation of said preliminary set of GOMs; (G) culling those GOMs from said preliminary set of GOMs having a standard error of measurement greater than approximately +1.0 outside said mean score thereby resulting in a pool of GOMs; whereby said resulting pool of GOMs are of substantially equal difficulty and ready for use in a student academic assessment program for identifying at-risk students.