Patent ID: 8311968

Claim:
A computer-based method for isolating and reviewing data comprising an educational performance system configured for: providing administration, teacher, student, and/or class data via more than one data source, with at least one of said more than one data source providing data through a network, to a data storage component, and wherein said more than one data source consists of data warehouses, data marts, operational datastores, local databases, content aggregators, web services, raw data, real time data, line data feed from sensors and/or raw data generators, and wherein said data storage component consists of a database, spreadsheet, or cache; providing first and second rules to said data via a rules engine, said rules comprising a function of the characteristics of relationships among and/or between data; providing at least two metaphors wherein each of said metaphors provide a concrete referent for said data via a metaphor engine, and wherein a first of at least two of said metaphors is modified in whole or part via a value provided to said first metaphor by said first rule, and wherein a second of at least two of said metaphors is modified in whole or part via a value provided to said second metaphor by said second rule, and wherein each of said at least two metaphors consist of a graphic, sound or touch metaphor; and, providing user perception of said at least two metaphors and any modification of said at least two metaphors via a presentation comprising a theme or pattern configured via user interaction, wherein said interaction consists of user title, user authorization, user issues of concern, and/or enterprise performance metrics within a networked user interface compatible with said metaphors.