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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 11, 2017
Filed:
Dec. 06, 2010
Larry Eugene Albright, Alexandria, VA (US);
Larry Eugene Albright, Alexandria, VA (US);
AMERICAN INSTITUTES FOR RESEARCH IN THE BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES, Washington, DC (US);
Abstract
A system and method for administering tests at a computer terminal in communication with a remote location is provided. The method includes: establishing an initial threshold amount of questions, the initial threshold amount being a positive integer greater than one; sending to the computer terminal a first batch of questions that exceeds the threshold amount, the batch of questions having a substantially equal difficulty level; receiving an answer to one of the batch of questions; selecting, based on the answer to the one of the number of questions, a new question having a difficultly level different than the one of the number of questions; and sending the new question to the computer terminal.