Patent ID: 6953344

Claim:
A method for testing a student on a computer in a given subject area, the method comprising the steps of: a) providing a Meaning Equivalence Instructional Methodology (MEIM) software program on the computer, the MEIM software program including a meaning probe module having a meaning probe that includes a plurality of items, wherein each item includes a target statement and several test statements wherein the target statement encodes a concept about the given subject area and for each item, the student must select at least two statements having the same meaning, the target statement being unmarked for at least some of the items; b) testing the student with the meaning probe in the given subject area by having the student select at least two statements having the same meaning for at least one of the items; c) scoring the meaning probe with a scoring module provided by the MEIM software program; and, d) providing feedback using a statistics module for computing statistics and a feedback module.