Patent Document ID: 8187004
Application ID: 10934652
Patent Flag: 1

Claim One:
1. An education system for assessing performance in a variety of areas of education, comprising: one or more individual systems, wherein said one or more individual systems are software components implemented within a computer server, said individual systems including a Scrimmage Manager, a Writing Portfolio Manager, and a plurality of Standards Managers, wherein said Scrimmage Manager, said Writing Portfolio Manager, and each of said Standards Managers each have a plurality of Standards and a plurality of Standard Indicators, each of said Standards and each of said Standard Indicators having a unique ID to link said Scrimmage Manager with said Standards Managers and to link said Writing Portfolio Managers with said Standards Managers; wherein said Standards are benchmarks students are expected to meet throughout their education and identify what skill students should acquire at a particular grade level; wherein said Standard Indicators are each associated with at least one of said Standards, detail specific task competencies which comprise said at least one of said Standards, and help determine whether said at least one of said Standards has been met; wherein said Scrimmage Manager includes a plurality of Scrimmages associated with said Standards and said Standard Indicators, wherein each of said Scrimmages includes a plurality of Questions corresponding to each of said Scrimmages and Scrimmage Results corresponding to each of said Scrimmages; wherein each of said Scrimmages is linked to at least one of said Standards and at least one of said Standard Indicators; wherein a plurality of individual of said Scrimmages are each linked to a plurality of said Standards and to a plurality of said Standard Indicators; wherein said Portfolio Manager includes a plurality of Portfolios associated with said Standards and said Standard Indicators, each of said Portfolios having a unique ID, each of said Portfolios having a plurality of Portfolio Entries each having a unique ID; wherein each of said Portfolio Entries is linked to at least one of said Standards and independently linked to at least one of said Standard Indicators; wherein a plurality of said Portfolio Entries are each linked to a plurality of said Standards and a plurality of said Standard Indicators; wherein said Scrimmage Manager, said Writing Portfolio Manager, and said plurality of Standards Managers include a State, said State having a plurality of Districts, each of said Districts having a plurality of Schools, each of said Schools having a plurality of said Students, each of said Schools having a plurality of said Teachers, and each of said Schools having a plurality of Courses; wherein each of said Courses is comprised of a plurality of Learning Objectives and a plurality of Critical Vocabulary, and wherein each of said Learning Objectives, each of said Critical Vocabulary, each of said Standards, and each of said Standard Indicators form a plurality of Unit Plans; wherein each of said Learning Objectives, each of said Critical Vocabulary, and each of said Unit Plans has a unique ID; and wherein said Critical Vocabulary is a word or phrase necessary to understand said Standards and said Standard Indicators; a software relational database related to said individual systems and receiving, collecting, organizing, processing, and maintaining data; host computers for teachers and school administrations to submit data into and access data from said software relational database; and wherein said one or more individual systems within said computer server further includes a report generating process that generates a plurality of reports relevant to said data input into said software relational database and accessible by said teachers and said school administrators, wherein said plurality of reports generated is dependent upon parameters selected by said teachers and school administrations accessing said data; wherein said plurality of reports further include reports identifying which of said Standards and Standard Indicators corresponding to a particular of said Portfolio Entries were not grased by each of said Students; wherein said plurality of reports include reports identifying which of said Standards corresponding to a particular of said Scrimmages was grasped by each of a plurality of said Students in a class and wherein at least some of said Students may grasp multiple of said Standards.