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Assessments: View Reports

In the Assessment Reports utility, you can run reports on class or individual performance statistics for Quizzes.  Your can also run performance reports on Surveys, which are anonymous and aggregated so only students’ answers to each question are listed.  In fact, Survey data is only accessible via Assessment Reports.

Role(s) Needed: The instructions for viewing assessment reports apply to Section-level Instructors.

Step 1: From the Teach tab, click the  Assessments tool in the Course Tools area of the Course Menu.

Step 2: Click the down arrow  icon next to the assessment name and select  View Reports.

Step 3. Select a report type.

If you want to view the Question Statistics report for an individual question, select Overall Statistics.

If you selected Comparison Statistics and want to compare Students' scores based on a column in Grade Book, select a Grade Book column.

About the Overall Statistics Report

If you View by Student, the Overall Statistics report for quizzes shows the following information for each Student:

• last, first, and user name
• grade for the quiz or survey
• number of attempts at the quiz or survey
• score for the quiz or survey
• answer for each question

Overall Statistics reports for surveys are anonymous and show only Students' answers for each question.

The Overall Statistics report shows the following information for each question:

• title
• N: Number of Students who answered the question.
• Percent Answering Correctly:
  • Whole Group: Percentage of Students who answered the question correctly.
  • Upper 25%: Percentage of Students whose score is in the upper 25% of the class.
  • Lower 25%: Percentage of Students whose score is in the lower 25% of the class.
• Discrimination: Indication of how well the question distinguishes between Students who have a high score and those who have a low score. The discrimination is between 1 and -1. A negative number indicates that the lower-scoring Students performed better on this question than the high-scoring Students.
• Mean: Average score for a question.
• Median: Middle score for a question. If there is an even number of scores, the median is the average of the two middle scores.
• Standard Deviation: Average of the amount that the results deviate from the average score.

About the Comparison Statistics Report

If you View by Summary, the Comparison Statistics report shows the following information for each quiz or survey:

• N: Number of Students who answered the question.
• Mean: Average score for a question.
• Median: Middle score for a question. If there is an even number of scores, the median is the average of the two middle scores.
• Standard Deviation: Average of the amount that the results deviate from the average score.

Comparison reports for surveys are anonymous and show only Students' answers.

The Comparison Statistics report shows the following information for each question:

 

• title
• N: Number of Students who answered the question.
• Percent Answering Correctly and Class Performance:
  • Whole Group: Percentage of Students who answered the question correctly.
  • Upper 25%: Percentage of Students whose score is in the upper 25% of the class.
  • Lower 25%: Percentage of Students whose score is in the lower 25% of the class.
• Discrimination: Indication of how well the question distinguishes between Students who have a high score and those who have a low score. The discrimination is between 1 and -1. A negative number indicates that the lower-scoring Students performed better on this question than the high-scoring Students.
• Mean: Average score for a question.
• Median: Middle score for a question. If there is an even number of scores, the median is the average of the two middle scores.
• Standard Deviation: Average of the amount that the results deviate from the average score.

About the Question Statistics Report

The Question Statistics report shows the following information for each question:

• answer
• value assigned to each answer
• frequency distribution of each answer. The percentage of Students who responded with that answer appears in parentheses.
• frequency distribution of each grade
• N: number of Students who answered the question
• Percent Answering Correctly:
  • Whole Group: percentage of Students who answered the question correctly
  • Upper 25%: percentage of Students whose score is in the upper 25% of the class
  • Lower 25%: percentage of Students whose score is in the lower 25% of the class
• Discrimination: Indication of how well the question distinguishes between Students who have a high score and those who have a low score. The discrimination is between 1 and -1. A negative number indicates that the lower-scoring Students performed better on this question than the high-scoring Students
• Mean: average score for a question
• Median: middle score for a question. If there is an even number of scores, the median is the average of the two middle scores.
• Standard Deviation: average of the amount that the results deviate from the average score

 

 

Notes:

Only answers that have been fully graded are included in the statistics. Partially graded paragraph questions in quizzes are not included in the statistics. You cannot view assessment reports for surveys if the surveys had submissions and were restored or created by using an earlier version of this product.

Step 4: Click the Run Report button.

TIP: You may wish to download report data into a spreadsheet for further analysis and planning purposes.  Each report contains a Download Records option, which saves the data into a comma separated value (CSV) format that can be opened in Microsoft Excel.

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