Patent ID: 8353705

Claim:
A method for gathering and validating attendance data, including the steps in the order of: providing a plurality of uniquely encoded tags, the tags adapted to be borne by an attendee; scanning the plurality of tags as the attendees pass into an attendance area without manipulation of the scanner or the tag; creating a provisional attendance report at least partially from information acquired by the scanner from the tags; said creating step including the step of comparing a class list of who is expected to be in attendance with a present list of which tags of the attendees are scanned in the attendance area by said scanning step to determine who on the class list is absent; communicating the provisional attendance report to an attendance tracker individual in the attendance area; personally visually inspecting the attendance within the attendance area by the attendance tracker regardless of whether any expected attendees are absent in the provisional attendance report; identifying differences between the provisional attendance report and results of said inspecting step; and modifying the provisional attendance report to correct the differences of said identifying step to establish a second attendance report, the second attendance report being more accurate than the provisional attendance report.