Student Performance Capture System Using Learning Outcome Segmentation
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Solution Overview
Problem
Grades provide a one-dimensional view of student performance, failing to offer insights into what students have learned and how effectively teachers convey subjects, limiting the ability to measure student achievement and teacher effectiveness in online and offline educational settings.
Innovation Solution
A computer-implemented system and method for capturing student performance by enabling course creators to generate and associate learning assessments with desired learning outcomes, providing these assessments to students, and determining whether the outcomes are met through graded assessments, with features like automatic grading and performance reporting.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If grades are used to measure student performance, then evaluation is simple and quick, but the measurement precision is insufficient to capture what students have learned
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments student performance measurement into multiple dimensions by creating specific learning outcomes and associated assessments for each outcome. Instead of a single grade, the system divides evaluation into discrete learning outcome components, each measured by targeted assessments, allowing precise tracking of student achievement across multiple knowledge and skill domains.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent transitions from one-dimensional grading to multi-dimensional performance capture by introducing learning outcomes as an intermediate dimension. Each learning outcome represents a specific dimension of student achievement (knowledge, skill, competency), and assessments map to these dimensions, creating a comprehensive multi-dimensional view of student performance that goes beyond simple grades.
2Measurement precision
If comprehensive learning outcomes and assessments are implemented, then measurement precision improves, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent creates a universal framework where learning outcomes and assessments can be applied across diverse courses and educational contexts. The system uses standardized structures for defining learning outcomes (knowledge, skill, competency domains) and mapping assessments to outcomes, allowing the same measurement framework to serve multiple courses, instructors, and student populations without requiring separate complex systems for each.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent implements preliminary action by requiring course instructors to pre-define learning outcomes and associate assessments with specific outcomes before delivering instruction. This upfront structuring of measurement frameworks allows the system to automatically track and report student achievement against predetermined standards, reducing the need for complex real-time evaluation systems and enabling automated performance capture.
Data Source
AI summary
A method of capturing student performance can be provided that includes enabling a course creator to generate assessment data related to learning assessments for an online course and to generate learning outcomes for the online course, associating the assessment data with the learning outcomes, such that at least some of the learning assessments correspond to at least some of the learning outcomes, and generating an online classroom. The method may further include providing the learning assessments to students enrolled in the online course using the online classroom, wherein the students can generate completed learning assessments, and determining, for each of the completed learning assessments, whether one or more of the learning outcomes were met by each of the students.