Patent ID: 6651071
Filing Date: 2003-11-18
Classification: G09B,Y10S

Abstract:
A database system for tracking achievement of students of an educational institution where each student must demonstrate proficiency in every one of a plurality of abilities, proficiency in each ability is demonstrated by completing a plurality of performances in a series of courses in a curriculum of the educational institution, each course typically relates to more than one of the plurality of abilities, that database system comprising:a data entry device by which a person indicates when a student has satisfactorily completed a performance assigned in one of the plurality of courses; a data storage structure which for each student contains an identification of a plurality of performances satisfactorily completed by that student and an identification of which of the plurality of abilities are associated with each of the plurality of performances; and a user interface coupled to the data storage structure to retrieve data regarding the plurality of performances and to selectively present information about an extent to which each student has demonstrated proficiency in the plurality of abilities.