Patent ID: 7146128

Claim:
A scoring method comprising the steps of: (1) collecting answer data relating to answers provided by a plurality of examinees of a test; (2) collecting various attribute data of the examinees; (3) encoding the answer data and the various attribute data on at least one computer readable medium; (4) determining whether said answer data corresponds to a correct answer, an incorrect answer or no answer, and scoring the answer data determined to be a correct answer or an incorrect answer; and (5) summarizing said various attribute data of the examinees by contents of said answer data based upon results of the step of determining which of said answer data corresponds to one of a correct answer, an incorrect answer and no answer; and (6) displaying the summarized attribute data of the examinees; wherein step (4) includes a step of comparing an answer data volume of answer data relating to answers provided by an examinee of a test to a minimum answer data volume of the answer data corresponding to each question of the test in order to determine if no answer was provided to that question of the test; and step (5) includes a step of summarizing answers by attribute data, concerning the answers determined to be incorrect answers or no answer.