System and method for delivering prescribed instructional materials to students
This invention is a computer based system for the assessment, management and instruction of students, and for the delivery of work pages and other instructional materials in the form of electronic student workbooks. The computer based assessment of the student produces a student profile including skill gaps or learning objectives. Teacher ( 20 ) and student ( 22 ) workstations are networked CPUs with pen-based tablet inputs, and displays network with a central processor ( 10 ) and data base. A director workstation may also be networked with the central processor. The central processor generates a teacher workbook either directly or with input from the director workstation. The teacher, or teacher and director together, assemble an electronic student workbook containing instructional materials correlated with the student profile. The system tracks useful data such as instructional material (e.g., textbook pages, work sheets, software, simulations, tests, etc.) delivered to students.
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40 . A method for instructing a students over a network, comprising:
generating student profiles based on assessment tests, said student profiles specifying corresponding leaning objectives for a plurality of students;
prescribing instructional materials to students based on corresponding learning objectives;
supplying software modules to a plurality of student workstations and a plurality of teacher workstations,
running the software modules supplied to the plurality of teacher workstations to generate teacher workbooks that provide teachers at the teacher workstations user interfaces to select student records associated with any one of a plurality of assigned students, each student record including a listing of one or more instructional material related to a learning objective associated with a student;
running the software modules supplied at the plurality of student workstations to generate student workbooks personalizes for each student at a corresponding student workstation based on a student profile; said student workbooks providing students at the student workstations user interfaces during learning sessions to interact with teachers at the teacher workstations;
delivering the prescribed instructional materials to the student workstations via the student workbooks;
electronically grading students using teacher workbooks; and
updating student profiles based on student grades.
41 . The method of claim 40 further including tracking delivered instructional material for charge calculation purposes.
42 . The method of claim 40 further including statistically analyzing student grades based on at least one of demographics or student's time on a task for updating sais student profiles.