E-SOND is the Electronic Standardized Outcomes National Database

It is the answer to the many problems plaguing teachers in elementary and secondary schools, as well as universities, colleges, and training centers in the United States. E-SOND provides an atmosphere of learning in all classrooms and allows achievers to move forward at their own pace.

E-SOND provides the tools, information, and standardization needed to evaluate and improve the learning process in today’s school system. It provides a measuring tool to evaluate the performance of the teachers, schools, management, and learners.

E-SOND provides a continuing opportunity for each person to display their marks of achievements, be they educational or experience oriented, and disseminates those achievements to companies and others who hire the people with the recognized skills.

E-SOND provides employers with a database of prospective new hires, while helping to assess the progress of current employees when they add new skill sets.

E-SOND provides a level of information to public and private sectors that has never before been achieved. The information is available without usurping the rights to privacy of the individual citizen-worker.

E-SOND is based on the Outcome-Based Evaluation System

Academia, as well as accrediting agencies and leaders in the education system, have recognized the need for outcome-based evaluation for many years. This outcome-based system provides a positive, impartial, and tangible means for evaluating the student in the classroom. Outcomes are definite, measurable, and achievable. Outcome measured tests produce a quantifiable tool to evaluate students. When this test is evaluating many students at many learning centers, it provides the data to evaluate the individual’s learning environment.

The federal government’s “Standard Occupational Classification” provides a list of outcomes for every occupational career and/or job. This list is the foundation for E-SOND. Many licensing agencies such as the FAA (Federal Aviation Administration) provide more outcomes as a basis for testing and learning. In this case, the FAA is ensuring the safety of flight by providing the outcomes and regulating the persons affected by those outcomes. Outcomes also indicate knowledge in certain areas and will aid in determining an applicant’s strong points during job placement.

The Electronic Standardized Outcomes National Database (E-SOND) is a database of the lifelong personal achievements of an individual

The database includes the knowledge, training, experience, as well as academic accomplishments of the individual. The database includes testing material composed of knowledge questions as well as specific questions developed by academia, trainers, and teachers. Some tests may contain questions created by the instructor as well as questions that satisfy the attained knowledge prescribed by the outcome. The Office of Management & Budget has codified the major outcomes for an occupation listed in the Standard Occupational Classification (SOC) as amended for 2010. Secondary outcomes may be generated by Administrative agencies such as the Federal Aviation Administration, or the Federal Highway Administration for outcomes governing the licensing and certification of individuals who perform tasks such as driving a truck or piloting an aircraft. The Standard Occupational Classification has over 8,400 outcomes listed for jobs such as Doctors, Lawyers, woodcutters, and military personnel.

E-SOND will help teachers and instructors by providing testing data, syllabi, and information concerning each of the SOCs (“Standard Occupational Classifications). It will provide a plethora of possibilities for the student and will help solve many issues that have arisen from the “No Child Left Behind” program. Students will be able to progress at their own rate without making others feel uncomfortable or inferior in the classroom setting.

E-SOND is private! The individual has control over how much information, if any, may be used by other entities such as government, corporations and schools.. The individual has total control over who sees his or her private information.

E-SOND establishes a basis for testing, based on a given outcome. Individuals in the teaching profession work together to expand, yet maintain the objectiveness in testing. What is truly desired for a student (learner) to acquire? The answer is the outcome prescribed for the lesson. The answer is objectively graded and the learner is one step closer to completing the established objectives for either a grade in the class, a certification, or license.