Patent ID: 6921268

Claim:
A method for knowledge assessment and learning comprising the steps of: a. presenting to a test subject a plurality of queries derived from a computer database of learning materials, each query being answerable by a plurality of substantive multi-choice answers indicative of confidence level, said multi-choice answers including a choice of right answer that indicates complete confidence, choices of wrong answers, at least one choice of combined right and wrong answers that indicates partial confidence, and a choice of no answer that indicates no confidence; b. responsive to the answers to the queries by the test subject, calculating a weighted score according to a predefined scoring protocol based on a comparison of the test subject's answer with a correct substantive answer; c. compiling a knowledge profile based on the weighted score, the knowledge profile being qualitatively categorized by misinformed, uninformed, partially informed and fully informed quality regions, and said knowledge profile being quantitatively determined using said weighted score and a percentage of correct answers for each of the quality regions; and d. offering to the test subject learning materials on the substantive answer selectable from the database of learning materials according to the knowledge profile.