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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 15, 2014
Filed:
Dec. 19, 2008
Kristine A. German, Webster, NY (US);
Robert M. Lofthus, Webster, NY (US);
Robert Roy Price, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Florent Perronnin, Domene, FR;
Claudio Cifarelli, Grenoble, FR;
Minh DO, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Rong Zhou, San Jose, CA (US);
Kristine A. German, Webster, NY (US);
Robert M. Lofthus, Webster, NY (US);
Robert Roy Price, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Florent Perronnin, Domene, FR;
Claudio Cifarelli, Grenoble, FR;
Minh Do, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Rong Zhou, San Jose, CA (US);
Xerox Corporation, Norwalk, CT (US);
Palo Alto Research Center Incorporated, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Abstract
An educational recommender system and a method are provided. The method includes receiving a request to recommend a course of action related to a plurality of current students; accessing a computer database storing student data that corresponds to the plurality of current students; clustering in a computer process the plurality of current students into at least two clusters based at least on granular assessment data associated with student data corresponding to respective current students; and outputting the results of the clustering to a user. The granular assessment data includes a result of an assessment administered to respective students of the plurality of current students, and each assessment includes a plurality of questions for assessing one of the current students. The associated result includes an independent evaluation of each respective question of the plurality of questions.