US 2008/0177504 A1Published application

Method, system, signal and program product for measuring educational efficiency and effectiveness

AssigneeNiblock & Associates, LLC

InventorGlenn A. Niblock

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Abstract

An application for a method for measuring educational efficiency and effectiveness of a teacher and a group of students includes measuring amounts of effort and/or expense expended during teaching activities and accumulating the amounts of effort and/or expense into an accumulated effort and/or expense. The knowledge level of the group of students is measured before the educational activities and measured after the educational activities. The educational efficiency and effectiveness of the teacher is calculated based upon the difference between the knowledge level of the group of students before the teaching activities and the knowledge level of the group of students after the teaching activities divided by the accumulated effort and/or expense.

Claims20

Dependent claims

A system for measuring an efficiency and effectiveness of educational activities, the system comprising:

a computer including at least a processor, memory and storage;
software running on the computer for accepting inputs indicating an amount of effort expended and accumulating the inputs indicating the amount of effort expended into an accumulated effort;
software running on the computer for accepting inputs indicating an amount of costs expended and accumulating the inputs indicating the amount of cost expended into an accumulated cost;
software running on the computer for accepting inputs indicating a knowledge level of a group of students before the educational activities are performed;
software running on the computer for accepting inputs indicating a knowledge level of the group of students after the educational activities;
software running on the computer for calculating the efficiency and effectiveness of the educational activities by calculating a difference between the knowledge level of the group of students before the educational activities and the knowledge level of the group of students after the teaching activities divided by the accumulated effort;
and
software running on the computer for calculating the efficiency and effectiveness of the educational activities by calculating a difference between the knowledge level of the group of students before the educational activities and the knowledge level of the group of students after the teaching activities divided by the accumulated cost.

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A method for measuring educational efficiency and effectiveness of an educator with a group of students, the method comprising:

measuring amounts of effort expended related to educational activities with the group of students;
accumulating the amounts of effort expended during the educational activities into an accumulated effort;
measuring the knowledge level of the group of students before the educational activities;
measuring the knowledge level of the group of students after the educational activities;
and
calculating the educational efficiency and effectiveness based upon the difference between the knowledge level of the group of students before the educational activities and the knowledge level of the group of students after the educational activities divided by the accumulated effort.

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A computer readable medium tangibly embodying a program of instructions, the program of instructions configured to for measuring educational efficiency and effectiveness of an educator with a group of students, the program of instructions comprising:

computer instructions for measuring amounts of effort expended related to educational activities with the group of students;
computer instructions for accumulating the amounts of effort expended related to the educational activities with the group of students into an accumulated effort;
computer instructions for measuring the knowledge level of the group of students before the educational activities;
computer instructions for measuring the knowledge level of the group of students after the educational activities;
and
computer instructions for calculating the educational efficiency and effectiveness of the educator with the group of students based upon a difference between the knowledge level of the group of students before the educational activities and the knowledge level of the group of students after the educational activities divided by the accumulated effort.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.