Patents by Inventor Robert Zieroth

Robert Zieroth has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Publication number: 20240281915
    Abstract: A system and method trained to identify areas of learning challenge and essential concepts and generate recommendations with customized practice and instructional materials to address and capture all students' needs. The recommendations are generated based on a data-based progression of educational content. The system creates models for each student, which are adjustable or modifiable to teacher planning preferences and teacher knowledge of the student, and can adapt to interruptions and lost instructional time due to uncontrollable circumstances (e.g., global pandemic.). A graphical interface displays recommendations to instructors or students for selection. A separate clustering algorithm uses an underlying student model to group students who would benefit from working on the same educational activities for optimal learning. The recommendations may be aligned to selected educational goals or a general list of effective choices for any given student or a group of students.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 16, 2024
    Publication date: August 22, 2024
    Inventors: Ajay Mathew, Julianne Robar, Zecheng Chang, Bruce Bray, Jon Medin, Selvedin Alic, Robert Zieroth, Eric Stickney, Eric Swanson, Jon Stelman
  • Publication number: 20240274023
    Abstract: A multi-lingual toggle (“MLT”) system with transferable skills, course mapping and tranlanguaging capabilities across educational content from different regional and global jurisdictions is disclosed. The MLT system tracks student holistic and longitudinal growth towards developing a multiliterate brain and supports literacy education in multiple languages. The MLT system includes learning progression routines developed authentically to reflect literacy acquisition in the target language. The learning progressions are empirically validated through the application of an item response theory (“IRT”) psychometric model to compute the difficulty of the skills associated with the learning progressions. There is a strong relationship between the ordering of the skills and the associated difficulties that presents an opportunity to create multilingual literacy trajectories that highlight how multilingual students achieve multiliteracy holistically, rather than in a monolingual sense.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2023
    Publication date: August 15, 2024
    Inventors: Robert Zieroth, Ajay Mathew, Julianne Robar, Doris Chavez-Linville, Catherine N. Close, Mariel Z. Pina
  • Publication number: 20240233565
    Abstract: Some embodiments of a system and methods that automate and facilitate the alignment of educational content from diverse sources are disclosed. This system and methods facilitate and enhance automated content connections. They are configured to create models that automate and facilitate the alignment of educational content from diverse sources, ranging from specific questions to instructional plans. These may be aligned independently or through a knowledge graph. This alignment includes jurisdiction dependent definitions of educational goals, such as standards and learning objectives. Model inputs include one content set being assimilated and associated metadata persisted in a data store where another content set can be added for comparison. Content is evaluated for perfect text matches and also imperfect matches that are close in semantic meaning. The system's algorithm compares multiple products, their education units of information, and academic standards as designated between various agencies.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2023
    Publication date: July 11, 2024
    Inventors: Ajay Mathew, Julianne Robar, Zecheng Chang, Bruce Bray, Jon Medin, Selvedin Alic, Robert Zieroth, Eric Stickney, Eric Swanson, Jon Stelman
  • Patent number: 11862041
    Abstract: Some embodiments of an integrated student-growth platform for discovering, designating, and organizing heterogeneous instructional electronic resources based on observational assessments of students are disclosed. The student-growth platform is configured to establish and generate the best possible set of skills and resources for an educator to teach a group of students on a particular day and for a student to quickly progress to meet preferred educational standards. In one embodiment, the student-growth system includes a communication unit for sending and receiving data among users (e.g., teachers and students), an assessment platform, a planning platform, a learning-progression platform, an assignment platform, a mastery-maker platform, a Multi-Dimensional Response Item (MIRT) platform, and a reporting platform.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: RENAISSANCE LEARNING, INC.
    Inventors: Mark Angel, Robert Zieroth, Pete Jungwirth, Eric Stickney, Diana Blythe, Gena Kukartsev
  • Publication number: 20220238033
    Abstract: Some embodiments of an integrated student-growth platform for discovering, designating, and organizing heterogeneous instructional electronic resources based on observational assessments of students are disclosed. The student-growth platform is configured to establish and generate the best possible set of skills and resources for an educator to teach a group of students on a particular day and for a student to quickly progress to meet preferred educational standards. In one embodiment, the student-growth system includes a communication unit for sending and receiving data among users (e.g., teachers and students), an assessment platform, a planning platform, a learning-progression platform, an assignment platform, a mastery-maker platform, a Multi-Dimensional Response Item (MIRT) platform, and a reporting platform.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 14, 2022
    Publication date: July 28, 2022
    Inventors: Mark Angel, Robert Zieroth, Pete Jungwirth, Eric Stickney, Diana Blythe, Gena Kukartsev
  • Patent number: 11250721
    Abstract: Some embodiments of an integrated student-growth platform for discovering, designating, and organizing heterogeneous instructional electronic resources based on observational assessments of students are disclosed. The student-growth platform is configured to establish and generate the best possible set of skills and resources for an educator to teach a group of students on a particular day and for a student to quickly progress to meet preferred educational standards. In one embodiment, the student-growth system includes a communication unit for sending and receiving data among users (e.g., teachers and students), an assessment platform, a planning platform, a learning-progression platform, an assignment platform, a mastery-maker platform, a Multi-Dimensional Response Item (MIRT) platform, and a reporting platform.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2022
    Assignee: Renaissance Learning, Inc.
    Inventors: Mark Angel, Robert Zieroth, Pete Jungwirth, Eric Stickney, Diana Blythe, Gena Kukartsev
  • Publication number: 20210118317
    Abstract: Some embodiments of an integrated student-growth platform for discovering, designating, and organizing heterogeneous instructional electronic resources based on observational assessments of students are disclosed. The student-growth platform is configured to establish and generate the best possible set of skills and resources for an educator to teach a group of students on a particular day and for a student to quickly progress to meet preferred educational standards. In one embodiment, the student-growth system includes a communication unit for sending and receiving data among users (e.g., teachers and students), an assessment platform, a planning platform, a learning-progression platform, an assignment platform, a mastery-maker platform, a Multi-Dimensional Response Item (MIRT) platform, and a reporting platform.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 2, 2020
    Publication date: April 22, 2021
    Inventors: Mark Angel, Robert Zieroth, Pete Jungwirth, Eric Stickney, Diana Blythe, Gena Kukartsev
  • Patent number: 10825348
    Abstract: Some embodiments of an integrated student-growth platform for discovering, designating, and organizing heterogeneous instructional electronic resources based on observational assessments of students are disclosed. The student-growth platform is configured to establish and generate the best possible set of skills and resources for an educator to teach a group of students on a particular day and for a student to quickly progress to meet preferred educational standards. In one embodiment, the student-growth system includes a communication unit for sending and receiving data among users (e.g., teachers and students), an assessment platform, a planning platform, a learning-progression platform, an assignment platform, a mastery-maker platform, a Multi-Dimensional Response Item (MIRT) platform, and a reporting platform.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2020
    Assignee: Renaissance Learning, Inc.
    Inventors: Mark Angel, Robert Zieroth, Pete Jungwirth, Eric Stickney, Diana Blythe, Gena Kukartsev
  • Publication number: 20170294134
    Abstract: Some embodiments of an integrated student-growth platform for discovering, designating, and organizing heterogeneous instructional electronic resources based on observational assessments of students are disclosed. The student-growth platform is configured to establish and generate the best possible set of skills and resources for an educator to teach a group of students on a particular day and for a student to quickly progress to meet preferred educational standards. In one embodiment, the student-growth system includes a communication unit for sending and receiving data among users (e.g., teachers and students), an assessment platform, a planning platform, a learning-progression platform, an assignment platform, a mastery-maker platform, a Multi-Dimensional Response Item (MIRT) platform, and a reporting platform.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 10, 2017
    Publication date: October 12, 2017
    Inventors: Mark Angel, Robert Zieroth, Pete Jungwirth, Eric Stickney, Diana Blythe, Gena Kukartsev