Patent ID: 7182600
Filing Date: 2007-02-27
Classification: G09B

Abstract:
1. A computerized method operating on a computing device for improving a student's score on a language-based test by relating understood spatial-temporal concepts to less-understood language-based concepts, the method comprising: determining an initial language-based proficiency level in a subject by administering an initial language-based test having a list of language terms to the student; interactively displaying animated characters and spatial-temporal features corresponding to at least a portion of the language terms which are controllable by student input so as to teach the subject to the student; determining a conceptual proficiency level based on the student's performance in the interactive display; determining a subsequent language-based proficiency level in the subject by administering a subsequent language-based test to the student; comparing the conceptual proficiency level with the subsequent language-based proficiency level; and if the conceptual proficiency level is less than the subsequent language-based proficiency level, displaying information to the student which associates concepts represented by language from either the initial or the subsequent language-based test to corresponding concepts represented by animated characters used in the interactive display.