Inventors:
Walton Sumner - Webster Groves MO, US
Jinzhong Xu - Lexington KY, US
Guy Roussel - Lexington KY, US
Richard Rovinelli - Lexington KY, US
Michael Hagen - Lexington KY, US
International Classification:
G09B007/00, G09B019/00, G09B003/00
Abstract:
The present invention is generally related to a computer architecture and process for evaluating and reporting on a user's competence in managing a simulation of a complex system modeled in a computer based testing and training system. The simulation may be called a “virtual system.” The method generates evaluation criteria responsive to a user profile, user choices in managing the virtual system, and events that occur during a simulation, in addition to the original state of the system. The method produces summary evaluations responsive to a plurality of characteristics of the simulated system. The implementation may be advantageously employed to evaluate a medical clinician's management of computer-simulated human patients, hereinafter called “virtual patients”. The present invention is also suitable for evaluation of user management of a plurality of complex systems including but not limited to animals, plants, cells, machines, and populations.