Patent ID: 8231389

Claim:
A real-time observation assessment system comprising: one or more processing devices; one or more storage devices storing instructions that, when executed by the one or more processing devices, cause the one or more processing devices to implement: an assessment application configured to enable an assessor to administer a probe to a student and to capture responses of the student; a user interface of the assessment application that includes: a first area of the user interface that displays a character sequence that is divided into multiple segments, where at least two of the multiple segments of the character sequence are separately selectable by the assessor using an input device; and a second area of the user interface that is divided into multiple segments that collectively correspond to an aggregation of the multiple segments of the character sequences, with individual constituent segments of the second area corresponding to segments of the character sequence in the first area, wherein each segment in the second area is separately selectable by the assessor using the input device to capture different combinations of student responses; and a scoring module configured to calculate a score based on the selected segments according to scoring rules for the probe.