Patent Document ID: 20080090221
Application ID: 11870179
Patent Flag: 0

Claim One:
1. A method of diagnosing educational and psychological processes whereby a learner arrives at a wrong answer to an exam question, the method comprising: presenting an exam question to a learner on a visual display; having the learner read said question aloud; having the learner explain aloud in his/her own words what said question is asking; noting by a user any logistic, cognitive, affective and linguistic errors made by the learner in said reading of the questions and answers or in said explaining of the question and possible answers, and entering any such errors into a processor; presenting to said learner on said visual display at least one possible answer to said question; having the learner read aloud each said possible answer, and explain his/her rationale for selecting a particular answer to the question; noting by said user any logistic, cognitive, affective and linguistic errors made by the learner in said reading of each said answer or in said explaining of his/her rationale, and entering any such errors into a processor; forming a database containing data representing the learner's errors, wherein said processor is programmed to assess error patterns from said data; and processing said data to obtain a diagnostic report indicating how the learner tends to select incorrect answers to exam questions.