An information processing method may include providing past academic performance data for at least one student associated with at least one lifestyle segmentation profile (LSP). The past academic performance data may include academic test score data, for example. The method may further included generating an academic performance indicator for the LSP based upon the past academic performance data.

Information system providing academic performance indicators by lifestyle segmentation profile and related methods

A system and method for providing educational content and testing over the internet in order to teach students (e.g., college students) safe, responsible attitudes, values, and behaviors that will lower incidents leading to liability, and hence lower liability insurance for entities, including schools, attended by such students. Software modules provide the educational materials and testing materials as well as data mining techniques to determine which member attributes of that entity, or groups of member attributes, are statistically likely to be at risk for a liability situation or are in danger of harmful activity. The data mining combined with statistical analysis also enables the entity to ensure that students with certain attributes receive customized content addressed to the student's particular issues and provides for follow-up to verify that the students indeed learn the customized content. For example, the learning materials may relate to student safety and/or sociological and/or psychometric risk factors of the students.

On-line student safety learning and evaluation system

A method and system is provided to directly compare school districts and individual schools across state lines, and the geographic areas served by those schools (counties, municipalities, zip codes, neighborhoods) based on their reported standardized test scores despite the fact that each state has prepared their own version of standardized tests to benchmark the performance of their students. While standardized tests, such as the No Child Left Behind (NCLB) test, can provide a meaningful comparison between any students and schools that were administered the same test, since the tests are different state-to-state a comparison on this basis is generally inaccurate and unreliable. To normalize the local standardized test results based on the differences in tests in different localities, an additional factor is employed as a modifier of the NCLB test results resulting in a normalized comparison.

System for the normalization of school performance statistics

A geographic information system providing academic performance indicators may include a geographic information processing method including the steps of providing past academic performance data for at least one student residing in at least one geographic location having a lifestyle segmentation profile (LSP) associated therewith, and generating an academic performance indicator for the at least one geographic location based upon the past academic performance data and the LSP. The invention also provides a geographic information processing system having a database for storing past academic performance data for at least one student residing in at least one geographic location having an LSP associated therewith, and a processor cooperating with the database for generating an academic performance indicator for the geographic location based upon the past academic performance data and the LSP.

Geographic information system providing academic performance indicators and related methods

A standard setting method for schools including establishing a student level standard, generating a school-level standard based on a percentage of students that meet the student-level standard for performance criteria, and generating a report.

Miriam Friedman Ben-David

Papers

School-level outcome standard setting method