Patent ID: 8521077

Claim:
A collaboration detection system for detecting collaboration among a class of n students in answering a plurality of problems of an assessment administered to the n students, wherein n≧2, the system comprising: a tangible processor; and a memory with instructions to be executed by the tangible processor for: accessing granular assessment data associated with each student of the n students, the granular assessment data including an independent determination of correctness of an answer submitted by the student for each respective problem of the plurality of problems of the assessment and further including historical data, the historical data including previous determinations of a strength of likelihood of collaboration between each combination of the n students; determining for each combination a number of problems that were answered incorrectly by each student of the combination; and determining for each combination a strength of likelihood of collaboration based on the determined number of problems and an examining of the historical data related to any combination that was determined to have a high strength of likelihood of collaboration to determine a pattern of collaboration between any combination in any other particular subject or any subtopic of the subject.