Patent Document ID: 20030134261
Application ID: 10346941
Patent Flag: 0

Claim One:
1. A method of producing a plurality of standardized curriculum-independent General Outcome Measures (GOMs) of substantially equal difficulty for a particular grade level for use in identifying students at risk for not meeting minimum target scores on a standardized test for the particular grade level, said method comprising the steps of: (A) selecting a set of criteria for use in preparing GOMs for a particular grade level; (B) preparing a plurality of proposed GOMs using said selected criteria; (C) selecting a plurality of students in said particular grade level satisfying a predefined test group, each of said students of said predefined test group having known test scores from a previously completed standardized test with a known minimum target score; (D) testing each of said plurality of students from said predefined test group with said plurality of proposed GOMs and recording each of said student's GOM test-scores for each of said proposed GOMs; (E) culling those GOMs from said plurality of proposed GOMs tested having significant disparity of test scores by student of said predefined test group, thereby resulting in a preliminary set of GOMs; (F) calculating a mean score and a standard deviation of said preliminary set of GOMs; (G) culling those GOMs from said preliminary set of GOMs having a standard error of measurement greater than approximately &plus;1.0 outside said mean score thereby resulting in a pool of GOMs; whereby said resulting pool of GOMs are of substantially equal difficulty and ready for use in a student academic assessment program for identifying at-risk students.