Patent Document ID: 10037707
Application ID: 11870179
Patent Flag: 1

Claim One:
1. A computer based interactive method of diagnosing test taking errors for educational and psychological processes on a computer while a learner is taking an exam over the internet, when the learner arrives at a wrong answer to an exam question, the method comprising: reading on the processor the exam question from a data base in a computer readable medium, wherein the exam question is stored in an exam question field in a data structure in the data base; converting the exam question into a digital representation wherein the exam question digital representation is stored in a digital exam question field in a data structure in the data base; sending from the processor over the internet to a visual display at a location for the learner, the digital representation of the exam question to the visual display for displaying the exam question to the learner on the visual display; receiving at the processor from an audio input device, a digital representation of the exam question from the learner reading said question aloud on the audio input device; receiving on the processor over the internet from the audio input device, data input on a digital audio input device from the learner reading said question aloud; receiving on the processor, data input on the digital audio input device from the learner explaining aloud in his/her own words what said exam question is asking; analyzing on the processor the data input from the digital audio input device from the learner explaining aloud in his/her own words what said question is asking, for any logistic, cognitive, affective and linguistic errors made by the learner in said reading of the questions and answers in said explaining of the question and possible answers, wherein said analyzing for any logistic errors comprises identifying one or more of the following problems by comparing the digital audio of the learner' s explanation of what the question is asking to the exam question and determining on the processor if the learner is reading too much into the question, choosing a distracter question, losing train of thought, misreading the question, reading more into the question than the question asks, thinking tangentially, using preconceived ideas that are not actually in the question and does not understand what the question was asking, and wherein said analyzing of any cognitive errors comprises comparing an answer from the learner to the exam question from the learner and identifying on the processor, one or more of the following problems from the comparing of the answer from the learner to the exam question, learner lack of knowledge, learner lack of comprehension comprising inability to translate, does not know how to interpret, does not know how to extrapolate, learner inability to apply knowledge comprising learner inability to recognize principles and generalization and learner inability to problem solve and learner inability to analyze components comprising learner inability to break down information into component parts and elements, learner does not recognize relationships between components and learner does not perceive organizational components and learner inability to synthesize comprising learner inability to develop a plan of operation and learner inability to recognize a set of abstract relations; accessing on the processor in the data base in the computer readable medium at least one possible answer to the exam question wherein the at least one possible answer is retrieved from an answer field in the data structure in the data base; converting on the processor the at least one possible answer to the exam question into a digital representation of the at least one possible exam question; sending from the processor the digital representation of the at least one possible exam question to a visual display for presenting to said learner on said visual display the digital representation of the at least one possible answer to said question; receiving on the processor, digital audio data input from the digital audio input device from the learner, wherein the learner reads aloud each said possible answer into the digital audio input device, and explains his/her rationale for selecting a particular answer to the question into the digital audio input device; analyzing by said processor 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, wherein said analyzing of any affective errors comprises identifying on the processor one or more of the following problems: not aware of or willing to receive value, not willing to respond satisfactorily, does not accept preferred value or commit to same, does not conceptualize and organize values, and unable to identify or characterize a value or value complex; and wherein said analyzing of linguistic errors comprises identifying one or more of the following problems: literal translation from first language which changes the meaning of the question and out of sequence question components comprising subject, verb, direct object, pronouns and nouns; storing by the processor in an error data field in the data structure in the data base on the computer readable medium attached to the processor 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 on the processor the data structure in the database in the computer readable medium and storing data in the error data field in the data structure in the data base representing the learner's errors in the database in the computer readable medium, wherein said processor is programmed to assess error patterns from said data in the database in the computer readable medium; and processing on the processor said data to obtain a digital representation of a diagnostic report indicating how the learner tends to select incorrect answers to exam questions, wherein said the diagnostic report comprises data indicating how the learner tends to select incorrect answers to exam questions; and sending from the processor to a display device, the digital representation of the diagnostic report to a digital display and audio presentation device for presentation to the learner and storing by the processor in the data base in the error data field in the data structure the memory in the computer readable medium attached to the processor 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.