Patent Document ID: 7930300
Application ID: 12085847

Base Claim:
1. A web-based system comprising a server, database and a web-portal to provide an integrated feedback management system for the assessment of educational services, comprising: an interface to: input definitions of graduate attributes at various levels of complexity; input definitions of learning outcomes related to teaching theory at various levels of complexity; a database to map relationships between: graduate attributes at particular levels of complexity and their related teaching methods and assessment items; learning outcomes at particular levels and their related teaching methods and assessment items; a processor to: automatically respond to the assessment results for a particular student and determine and record both the graduate attribute levels of complexity, and learning outcomes levels, achieved by that student.

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Claim 17:
17. The system claimed in claim 1 , further comprising an assessment results and moderation functionality to provide one or more of the following moderation settings: a first moderation setting, where the moderator operates to force or move towards equalisation of measures of central tendency, measures of dispersion, and measures of skewness for multiple markers for the same question; a second moderation setting, where the moderator may force or move towards equalisation of measures of central tendency, measures of dispersion, and measures of skewness for multiple markers for different questions; a third moderation setting, where the moderator may change marks for individual assessment submissions or groups of assessment submissions within a range of marks or range of percentage levels of achievement; a fourth moderation setting, where the moderator may standardise assessment submission marks or grades, or both marks and grades; a final result moderation setting, where the moderator may alter cutoff points for awarded grades, alter the awarded grades manually or alter the dispersion or skewness of awarded grades.