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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Nov. 09, 2021

Filed:

Aug. 30, 2018
Applicant:

East Carolina University, Greenville, NC (US);

Inventor:

Robert Todd Watkins, Jr., Chapel Hill, NC (US);

Assignee:

East Carolina University, Greenville, NC (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G09B 7/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G09B 7/00 (2013.01);
Abstract

Methods, systems, and computer program products for assessing a student in in an online discussion event using at least one processor of a computer includes obtaining discussion data comprising a plurality of discussion posts in a data file, each comprising a post author and post content, grouping the plurality of discussion posts of the data file into a plurality of discussion threads, classifying individual discussion posts of the plurality of discussion posts based on a post type, and assigning relative value units (RVUs) to at least one of the plurality of discussion posts, where the RVUs are time-normalized scores based on a complexity of the discussion post.


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