Patent Document ID: 20060183098
Application ID: 11401961
Patent Flag: 0

Claim One:
1. A computer-readable storage media having stored thereon computer-executable instructions for causing a computer to perform, either alone or in conjunction with one or more users, a method for administering a constructed response assessment item to a respondent, wherein the computer performs steps comprising: presenting a stimulus response stem requiring the respondent to demonstrate knowledge of a relationship between two or more concepts; providing the respondent at least one device uniquely associated with each of the two or more concepts, at least one device having at least one attribute that can be selectively manipulated by the respondent to change a relationship of that device with respect to at least one other device to construct an arrangement of devices representing a relationship between the concepts with which the devices in the arrangement are associated; storing the selectively manipulable attributes of the devices in the arrangement constructed by the respondent; converting the stored attributes into a conceptual pattern associated with the arrangement constructed by the respondent; and comparing the conceptual pattern of the arrangement constructed by the respondent with a conceptual pattern of a pre-defined scoring rubric to determine whether or not the conceptual pattern associated with the arrangement constructed by the respondent matches the conceptual pattern of the scoring rubric.