Virtual World Aptitude And Interest Assessment System And Method

Abstract

An aptitude and interest assessment tool identifies one or more sectors for which a user may have a special interest, talent or aptitude. An interactive session is presented to a user. The interactive session provides a virtual world. A user interacts with the virtual world. Some or all of the user's interactions in the virtual world is stored in a storage device. The user's aptitude or interest in a profession or activity is assessed by an assessment module that receives data from the storage device and processes the received data to make a user assessment. A report providing the user assessment is created by a report creator.

1 . A method for providing an assessment of a user's interest or aptitude for a profession, using a computer, comprising:
 providing, through a computer, a virtual world interactive session to a user, wherein the user interacts in the virtual world interactive session through an avatar;   providing in the virtual world interactive session activities including school activities;   providing icons for a user to choose from to create responses and interact with the virtual world while participating in school activities using the avatar;   receiving session data on the user's virtual world interactive session;   creating indicators based on the received session data;   accessing a database containing a plurality of professions assigned attributes, wherein each attribute represents a trait for a profession and wherein some of the attributes in the database are derived from a professional;   analyzing the indicators against the attributes using a processor and the database;   providing access to a parent interface routine, wherein the access to the parent interface routine is controlled;   providing, through the parent interface routine, an assessment output in the form of a report, wherein the assessment output is created using the analyzed indicators and wherein the output identifies one or more professions for which the user has an interest or aptitude.