Patent Document ID: 20100291531
Application ID: 12804530
Patent Flag: 0

Claim One:
1. A method of correlating achievements of a student from a given class to a academic standard for course credit, the method comprising the steps of: providing a data processing machine having software installed thereon; providing at least one assessment for a first academic class; determining a grade for the assessment for a predetermined student; using the software on the data processing machine to perform the following steps: (a) associating at least one class standard with the assessment, (b) weighting the at least one assessment relative to other assessments for the associated class standard, (c) associating the at least one class standard with an academic standard, (d) associating the grade for an individual student with the assessment, (e) determining a score for the class standard based on the student grade for the at least one assessment and the relative weighting of assessments associated with the class standard, (f) determining a score for the academic standard based on the score for the class standard, and (g) generating a report identifying a score for the academic standard for the student based at least partially on the grade of the student for the assessment; and evaluating the score of the academic standard to determine whether the student is entitled to credit for a second academic class.