Method and system for creating and evaluating quizzes

A computerized educational method, comprising:

• a. providing a plurality of quiz types;
• b. providing a plurality of structured learning material data sets, each data set being of one of a plurality of structured learning material types and each data set being free of data specific to the generation of quizzes;
• c. providing for user selection of one of the plurality of quiz types and one or more structured learning material data sets, such that the selected data set types are compatible with the selected quiz type;
• d. dynamically generating a computerized quiz of the selected type using the selected structured learning material data sets, said generated quiz being capable of receiving input in the form of answers from the user in response to the quiz;
• e. receiving user input of answers to the quiz;
• f. analyzing answers to the quiz provided by the user according to a set of analysis rules;
• and
• g. delivering the results of the analysis to the user.

An automated educational method for a user, comprising:

• a. selecting one of a number of different quiz types available on a computer;
• b. selecting one or more structured learning materials data sets which are available on a computer and are compatible with the selected quiz type, each data set being free of data specific to the generation of quizzes;
• c. dynamically generating and presenting a quiz in the form of the quiz type selected in step a. using the data selected in step b;
• e. receiving user input of answers to the quiz;
• and
• f. evaluating the answers.

In educational software on a computer-interpretable medium using a computer for presenting quizzes, of the type which includes a user interface for controlling and interacting with the software and a control system of retrieving and activating software modules from the software module database management system, the improvement comprising:

• a data storage system including:
• A. a user database management system containing and maintaining a structured learning material database for storing structured learning material data sets created by a user, each data set being free of data specific to the generation of quizzes;
• and
• B. a software module database management system containing and maintaining:
• 1. a structured learning material editor module database containing at least one structured learning material editor module, at least one editor module being selectable for use in editing structured learning material data sets in response to a request through the user interface;
• 2. an extensible quiz module database containing at least one quiz module, each quiz module including a generator, a presenter, and an analyzer, the generator transforming structured learning material data sets into screen presentation data and quiz answer analysis rules for a quiz, the presenter, through the user interface, displaying the quiz to the user, accepting a user's answers to the quiz and displaying analysis results to the user on those answers, and the analyzer evaluating a user's answers to a presented quiz using the answer analysis rules provided by the generator, whereby quizzes may be dynamically generated from the structured learning material data sets entered by a user, and whereby additional quiz modules which can generate quizzes from structured learning material data sets already contained in the data storage system may be added to said quiz module database.

Educational software on a computer-interpretable medium using a computer comprising:

• a. a data storage system for storing a plurality of structured learning material data sets of different structured learning material types;
• b. a structured learning material editor set, each element of the set being a software module for editing at least one of a plurality of different structured learning material data sets each data set being free of data specific to the generation of quizzes each being free;
• c. a dynamic quiz generator having at least one quiz module for transforming input data into screen presentation data and quiz answer analysis rules for a quiz and displaying the quiz to the user, accepting a user's answers to the quiz and displaying analysis results to the user on those answers;
• and evaluating a user's answers to a presented quiz using answer analysis rules whereby quizzes are dynamically generated using one or more of the structured learning material data sets, and quiz modules may be added which operate with data sets already contained in the data storage system;
• d. a user interface for presenting data generated from the selected structured learning materials data set in the form of a selected quiz type for the student to take using the computer;
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• e. a quiz evaluation system for evaluating the student's results of a presented quiz using the rules for analyzing the quiz answers provided by the quiz generator.