104 results about "Test taker" patented technology

A system for secure, web-based, proctored examinations is provided. A web-based platform allows for test delivery beyond a local testing center with the test delivered directly to the test-taker. Computing devices that have been secured for the taking of an examination allow a student or prospective professional to access an examination wherever there is an Internet connection. As a result, students and professionals can take examinations where they live, learn, and work thereby reducing the costs associated with travelling to testing centers and minimizing time away from work. Test-takers, proctors, instructors, administrators, authors, and test developers can all access data and test information anytime and anywhere. Secure examinations can be taken under the purview of a proctor either in person or via the Internet and utilizing any number of testing environment capture devices in conjunction with data forensic technologies.

Systems and methods described herein provide for administering and proctoring of a secure online exam that allows for complex testing utilizing practical examination tasks. The practical examination tasks provide for evaluation of the knowledge of the exam taker, as well as the exam taker's ability to apply that knowledge in a real-world environment. By performing the practical examination tasks in the context of a secure online exam, the competence of the test taker can be readily determined without worrying about the exam taker illicitly accessing information on their computer or via a remote source of data. The exam taker may perform the practical examination tasks through manipulation of an evaluation application executing on the exam taker's secured computer. The practical examination tasks may also be carried out through manipulation by the exam taker of an evaluation apparatus coupled to the exam taker's secured computer.

A method and system is disclosed for confirming the identity of students taking an exam online. A camera or similar device compares the image of a student to a known and verified Reference Image to confirm the identity of the student. Using data analysis on answers during the exam coupled with both the uniqueness of the browser used and the location of taking the online exam, provides information on whether the student may have been obtaining help from others. The result is identifying students who are cheating, colluding, or conspiring to falsify test scores.

The invention provides a self-adapting evaluation method and system which is used to evaluate the grasp degree of an examinee towards each examination point. Each knowledge point corresponding to an examination point is classified into test questions at a plurality of levels. The method comprises: a, selecting an unevaluated examination point as a target examination point; b, providing the examinee with the test questions corresponding to the target examination point and determining the grasp degree of the examinee towards the target examination point based on the answers of the examinee towards test questions at various levels. According to the technical scheme provided in the embodiment, test questions related to each examination point are classified into a plurality of levels in accordance with their complexity degree, the level of the next test question is adapted in real time based on the evaluation result when the examinee is evaluated, the grasp degree of the examinee towards the knowledge point corresponding to each examination point is accurately determined based on the answers of the examinee towards test questions at various levels. The method is favorable for a teacher to teach according to the ability of the examinee based on the evaluation result, thereby providing better education and guidance to the examinee.

Systems and methods described herein utilize a distributed server network to allow for the real-time distribution of copies of a data stream uploaded from a computing device. The uploaded data stream corresponds to an environment surrounding a user (exam taker) of the computing device during execution of a testing routine for an examination. Providing copies of the data stream in real-time allows proctors as well as other test assessment authorities to ‘peek in’ on the exam taker's environment during the exam. As a result, the environment surrounding the exam taker can be monitored in real-time to determine whether any visual or audio activity in the environment constitutes activity not in accordance with the exam protocol. Following an affirmative determination that the exam taker violated an exam taking protocol, a proctor or other test assessment authority can then make a final or early decision regarding disciplinary action.

A test management and assessment system allows the user to create a test and answer sheet. The system includes a device having a user interface defining a plurality of input fields from which the test is created. The input fields include a plurality of question fields in which a corresponding plurality of questions can be input, a corresponding plurality of answer key fields in which a plurality of correct answers for each of the plurality of questions can be input, and a corresponding plurality of question value fields in which a plurality of question values can be selectively assigned to each question. The answer sheet has a plurality of test data fields, including answer fields in which a test-taker can input answers. The system includes scanning means for scanning answer sheets upon their completion and assessment means for automatically grading the answer sheets as they are scanned.

The invention relates to a method for remotely invigilating individual, solves the limitations caused by region, time and personnel to the existing concentrated examinations and reduces the expenses incurred by the concentrated examination mode. On the basis of a remote teaching management platform, the method is centered on computers, an individual remote examination management program is used to support the management and the internet is used to realize the management, invigilation terminals make comparison between the personal information and the stored information of examinees, examination environments and examinee qualification are authenticated by using invigilation devices configured in the computers of the examinees, examination process is monitored, the online networking with an examination monitoring center managed by the remote teaching management platform is realized, and the examination process and the scores of the examinees are evaluated, analyzed and confirmed to determine the validity of the examination. The invention has the advantages that the manpower for invigilation is saved, the working personnel can escape from the limitations of time and area, the possibility of cheating committed by examinees is reduced, the examination questions can be edited more conveniently and the practicability is high.

Methods and apparatuses are disclosed for computer-based evaluation of a test-taker's performance with respect to a reward threshold. A performance assessment of the test taker can be standardized or customized, as well as relative or absolute. The system allows a parentally-controlled reward system such that children who reach specified objectives can claim an award that parents are confident was fairly and honestly earned without the parent being required to proctor the testing.

Certain embodiments may be directed to a system and method for proctoring an exam, and more particularly, for online automated exam proctoring. A method may include checking a test-taker's computing device for compatibility, and for content that provide unauthorized aid to the test-taker during a testing session. The method may also include taking a photo of the test-taker, recording the test-taker by performing a room pan while analyzing the surrounds of the test-taker for unauthorized objects, and validating the identity of the test-taker by way of at least one of presenting challenge questions, obtaining voice biometrics, or obtaining keystroke biometrics. The method may further include recording the test-taker's audio or video and desktop feed, determining if the test-taker is exhibiting questionable behavior, and suspending the testing session if it is determined that the test-taker is exhibiting questionable behavior.

The invention discloses an online examination method, device and system. The online examination method includes: acquiring examinee login information of examinees; finding examination paper types corresponding to the examinee login information according to the same; finding target examination paper pointed by the examination paper types from a examination paper set, and sending the target examination paper to examination terminals of the examinees, wherein the examination paper of various examination paper types is stored in the examination paper set, and examination questions in the examination paper of each examination paper type are configured by examiners having corresponding question compiling login information. By the online examination method, device and system, universality and convenience of examination are realized.

The invention relates to a fingerprint identity verification system for verifying the identity of the examinees in large-scale tests. A fingerprint information acquisition subsystem efficiently acquires the fingerprint information of the examinees; a fingerprint information management subsystem takes the registration information of the examinees as secret keys to carry out encryption on the fingerprint information of the examinees, and generates an admission ticket with a unique bar code for verification; the fingerprint information verification subsystem adopts a complex identity fingerprint verification method of examinees with a one-to-many rapid fingerprint verification module as the main part and a one-to-one high-accuracy fingerprint verification module as the supplementary part to fast and accurately carry out fingerprint identity verification on the examinees; after the end of the fingerprint verification in the test scene, an examination room verification subsystem verifies the absent examinees according to the fingerprint verification results; a fingerprint verification information reporting subsystem can send the fingerprint information of the examinees passing the verification to the recruiting schools. The fingerprint verification system of the invention has the characteristics of operable fingerprint acquisition, safe information management, fast and accurate fingerprint verification, can effectively realize identity fingerprint verification of the examinees in the large-scale tests.

Methods and systems are provided in relation to a brain assessment system. A system is provided, comprising: an interface server that hosts a client site or application for establishing a communication interface connection to one or more client devices to receives test-taker identification information and an electronic indication of consent to collection of test data, and send a software and device request signal to check for software and device compatibility, wherein the interface server generates and transmits a test-taker token and a session ID token after validation of the test-taker identification information; a test server for a brain assessment tool that receives the test-taker token and a session ID token and after validation generates an electronic brain testing instance for a client device to compute brain testing results, the electronic testing instance having a test ticket identifier token for the session ID; the interface server monitoring input components of the client device to detect test response times for the electronic testing instance; the interface server tuning the test response times and the brain testing results based on the software and device compatibility and processing times; the test server computing a test report based on normalization of the brain testing results to provide a score relative to adults of similar gender, education, and age; and one or more data storage devices to store the brain testing results, the test ticket identifier token, the session ID, and the test-taker identification information.

A Consolidated Online Assessment System (COLA System) that creates, manipulates, and distributes an objected-oriented paradigm that represents the scoring and related activities as a unified and integrated family of loosely coupled objects, most notably a “Case” representing a state-machine that replaces the constructed response from the test taker as the unit of work. The Scoring Model and associated Properties that encapsulate the business rules associated with what actions are appropriate or required for a unit of work and the Responses to the unit of work which represent the test-taker-contributed content (e.g., essays or other text-based responses, audio responses, digitized video responses, scanned images, diagrams, lessons plans, etc.) and ties that content to its creator are linked to a Distinct Scorable Unit (DSU) which represents a tree-based mechanism that connects and provides inheritability for the other primary system objects. The abstraction of the DSU allows the system to distinguish between the constructed response as test-taker contributed content and the constructed response as the carrier of state or status information as it passes through the assessment process.

A computerized learning approach that enables a user to improve their performance on multiple-choice exams is disclosed. Although the learning approach includes various aspects and implementations, in general, the invention forces test-takers to practice their examination skills and subject matter knowledge in a systematic way. The systematic way forces the users to follow a proven problem-solving approach designed to improve their performance. The learning approach provides important performance feedback to user's, for example, elapsed time per question and percentage of correctly answered questions. The invention can also pinpoint for the user the substantive areas of the exam which the user is either weak or strong. Further, the learning approach is able to assist the user in predicting his/her eventual score.

A computer-based test creation system and method for generating test items. The test creation process includes creating items in electronic form and allowing access by a plurality of reviewers via a network. The reviewers may review the item for content, fairness and format, and collaborate with each other before indicating that the item is acceptable for inclusion in a test. After the administration of the items to test takers, item performance may be evaluated on-line by reviewing electronic feedback from the administrations and creating electronic evaluation reports. Since the items are created in an electronic form, the items may further include new forms of stimuli such as graphics and multimedia.

The invention provides a method for automatically judging dance rating. The method comprises the following steps: extracting each picture in teaching video and examination video respectively; A humanbody key point detection is carried out on each picture in the teaching video and the examination video to obtain a human body key point of the teacher and a human body key point of the examinee; Combine the dancing picture of the test taker in the t-th frame with the dancing picture in [t-T ', t + t'] frames, the rhythm and posture standard score of the examinee dance are obtained; Detect the keypoints of human face in every picture of the test video; The local facial expression scores of the candidates in each frame were obtained by using the expression analysis algorithm. The final facialexpression score is based on the candidate's local facial expression score in all the frames. The invention enables a user to compare a dance video with a standard video when performing a dance rating, identify the skeletal key point position and facial expression of a dancer in each frame of a picture, and obtain an expression score, a posture score and a rhythm score for judging the dancer.

The invention discloses an examination anti-cheating method, a related device and a system. An examination server is arranged at the local part of the school, a conventional server is arranged on thelocal or the cloud, the examinee conducts examination through a user terminal, the examination server verifies the information submitted by the user terminal and detects whether the network connectionof the examination server is a campus network, after the verification is successful, the test paper is distributed, the examinee answers based on the user end and loads the answer, the examination system does not need fixed equipment, the investment is low and popularization is easy, and the verification based on the information and network connection can be suitable for preventing cheating of various examination modes, so that the purposes of wide application range and effective cheating prevention are achieved.

The invention discloses an intelligent invigilation system and method. The intelligent invigilation system comprises an information collection device, an access control device, a monitoring device, a storage device and an invigilation center. According to the intelligent invigilation system and method disclosed by the invention, personnel inspection is carried out before an exam to prevent occurrence of an exam substitution event, all examinees can be monitored, a part of examinees can also be monitored, whether the examinees with cheating suspect cheat is manually judged at last, the efficiency is the highest on the condition that the exam is not affected, meanwhile the exam process is simply stored and is uploaded for cloud backup, thereby not only saving a large amount of storage devices, but also facilitating random downloading for subsequent re-inspection.

A test administration system comprises a central computer and associated database containing a plurality of tests that may be distributed to a test taker. The central computer provides a website to be accessed by the test administrator and the test taker at remote personal computers when using the test administration system. The website includes an administrator workspace for use by the test administrator and a testing workspace for use by the test taker. The administrator workspace provides the test administrator with the ability to order any number of the tests contained in the database. After ordering a number of tests, the test administrator uses the system to generate test identification codes for a chosen set of ordered tests. The system automatically provides the test identification codes to those test subjects taking a test, and provides the test subject with access information and instructions for using the system to take the test. The test administrator workspace also provides the test administrator with valuable test status information concerning the tests ordered by the administrator.

Headpiece (10) including a frame (22) having a support portion supported on a test-taker's head, an imaging device (14) that obtains images of an environment around and in front of the test-taker, a biometric identification system (26) that obtains biometric data about the person, a display (12) viewable by the test-taker, and a sound generator and detector (16, 18). A processor on the frame (22) is coupled to these components and controls content of the display (12) based on input received via the imaging device (14) and the biometric identification system (26). The processor also monitors detection of audio communications by the sound detector (16) relative to sound generated by the sound generator (18) and images obtained by the imaging device (14) and a test is displayed on the display (12) to determine whether a person other than the test-taker is present in an image obtained by the imaging device (14) or orally providing information to the test-taker.

A computer-based test creation system and method for generating test items. The test creation process includes creating items in electronic form and allowing access by a plurality of reviewers via a network. The reviewers may review the item for content, fairness and format, and collaborate with each other before indicating that the item is acceptable for inclusion in a test. After the administration of the items to test takers, item performance may be evaluated on-line by reviewing electronic feedback from the administrations and creating electronic evaluation reports. Since the items are created in an electronic form, the items may further include new forms of stimuli such as graphics and multimedia.

A Consolidated Online Assessment System (COLA System) that creates, manipulates, and distributes an objected-oriented paradigm that represents the scoring and related activities as a unified and integrated family of loosely coupled objects, most notably a “Case” representing a state-machine that replaces the constructed response from the test taker as the unit of work. The Scoring Model and associated Properties that encapsulate the business rules associated with what actions are appropriate or required for a unit of work and the Responses to the unit of work which represent the test-taker-contributed content (e.g., essays or other text-based responses, audio responses, digitized video responses, scanned images, diagrams, lessons plans, etc.) and ties that content to its creator are linked to a Distinct Scorable Unit (DSU) which represents a tree-based mechanism that connects and provides inheritability for the other primary system objects. The abstraction of the DSU allows the system to distinguish between the constructed response as test-taker contributed content and the constructed response as the carrier of state or status information as it passes through the assessment process.