Patent ID: 7440725
Filing Date: 2008-10-21
Classification: G09B

Abstract:
1. A computer implemented method for evaluating the fit of raw data to model data, the method comprising: receiving a plurality of associations, each pertaining to a relationship between one of a plurality of assessment items for an assessment examination and one of a plurality of attributes; receiving a plurality of responses, each pertaining to an answer by one of a plurality of examinees to one of the assessment items; receiving a plurality of mastery estimates, each representing whether one of the examinees has mastered one of the attributes; determining whether an examinee falls into at least one of a plurality of examinee classes for an assessment item based upon the mastery estimates for the examinee and the associations for the assessment item, wherein the examinee classes comprise: generating one or more statistics, each based on one or more of the associations, responses and mastery estimates, and comprising a difference between a percentage of correct answers for the assessment examination for the high non-master class for the assessment item and the percentage of correct answers for the assessment examination for the low non-master class for the assessment item; and outputting at least one of the statistics.