UPDATE (Nov 2020) Item Analysis Updates

You now have new ways of analyzing question-level items that provide a more detailed look at student responses: by student Choices or student Scores.

To access Item Analysis:

1. From the Home screen, click on the Assessment icon
2. Select the Assessment Analysis tab
3. Choose appropriate Data Set
4. Click Run Report
5. Click on the Item Analysis (Question Level) tab
6. Select By Student
7. Choose from Show Choices or Show Scores buttons

ICONS

At the top of each column is a Bar Chart icon or an Information icon

• is visible for all multiple-choice questions. Clicking this icon will show a Frequency Distribution Chart for the associated question.
• is visible for all non-multiple choice questions. Clicking this icon will show the actual question.

CHOICES

This tab offers a detailed look at the choices students made for each question. There will either be a letter or a dash. A letter indicates a student's choice(s). A dash indicates an open-ended or unanswered question. Hovering over a student's choice provides more detailed information.

Hovering over a multiple choice answer will show Score, Level, Level Min, and Level Max.

• Multiple choice questions with an answer look like this:

• Multiple choice questions without an answer look like this:

• Non-multiple choice questions look like this:

SCORES

This tab offers a detailed look at the scores students received for each question.  Hovering over a score provides more detailed information.

EXPORT TO EXCEL

To export Choices or Scores to Excel. simply select the Export button after running a report.

Note: If you are not seeing the correct information when running a report, you may need to go back and update the data by auto-grading the assessment again and rerunning the report.

To do this:

1. Navigate to the Testing Center tab
2. Choose the desired assessment
3. Select all students in the class
4. Click on the Actions menu
5. Choose Auto-Grade Assessment(s) Again
6. In the new window click on the Auto Grade button
7. Rerun the report