Patent ID: 6925601

Claim:
An adaptive training system for use with an adaptive testing tool, the system comprising: a user interface receptive of a field of application selection from a user; a plurality of task items stored in a data store, the plurality of task items organized by field of application and ranked by difficulty level; an item selector operable to select an unfamiliar task item as a training task item based on the selected field of application and a user ability, wherein the user ability is a function of previous user performance relating to task items of the selected field of application; and an ability evaluation module operable to determine a level of user ability as a function of previous user performance relating to a plurality of task items, wherein the plurality of task items relate to the selected field of application, and said ability evaluation module is operable to compute the user ability as a sum of average difficulty level of task items previously performed correctly by the user and a natural log of a quotient of a number of task items performed correctly by the user and a number of task items performed incorrectly by the user.