Rescoring overview
Assessment team members may need to alter the correct answer setup in a managed assessment after students have already completed it. If any edits change the correct answer, the existing submissions can now be automatically rescored.
Rescoring is available on the following question types only:
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Multiple choice
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True or false
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Matching
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Ordering
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Fill in the blank text
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Fill in the blank dropdown
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Fill in the blank drag and drop
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Label image
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Highlight hotspot
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Highlight text
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Number line
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Chart
When rescoring is triggered
A rescore is generated when changes affect how responses should be evaluated. This includes:
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Updating the Correct Answer Setup
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Editing answer configurations in supported question types
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Changing answer choices in ways that affect correctness
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Removing or adding answer options
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Enabling or disabling case sensitivity in applicable question types
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Editing point label content in charts (case-sensitive)
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Changing text case in case-sensitive question types
Considerations
Rescoring should not be run while students are actively taking an assessment. If you update the Correct Answer Setup and trigger a rescore during active submissions, in-progress attempts will not be automatically rescored.
After rescoring, student submissions remain exactly as they were at the time of submission. Only the scoring logic is updated.
Submission scores are always based on the answers selected at the time of submission, not changes made to answer content after the fact.
Best practices
To ensure accurate results:
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Avoid editing answer text in ways that change the meaning of correct responses.
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Do not rely on rescoring when adding new answer options, since existing submissions will not include them.
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If you are adding substantial new content or restructuring answers, consider creating a new assessment instead of rescoring.
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For ordering questions, use the Rescore Submissions option to adjust answer order instead of manually editing text.
Some edits can affect scoring accuracy:
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If answer choices are corrected, such as fixing a misspelling, existing student selections may no longer match exactly.
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If new answer options are added, existing submissions will not include those options, which may impact scoring consistency.
In these cases, rescoring may not produce the expected results. Creating a new assessment is recommended when structural changes are significant.
Rescore submissions
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Select AMP and choose Assessment Teams.
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Select the relevant Assessment Team.
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Click the question bank title.
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Navigate to the desired question in the question bank and edit Correct Answer Setup.
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Click Save.
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Click Confirm to update all managed assessments that contain the edited question.
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Optionally, select Rescore Submissions to rescore any existing submissions for the item you saved. Alternatively, select Don’t Rescore to opt out of rescoring existing submissions. If you select Don’t Rescore in error, you can navigate back to edit question mode and select Rescore submissions.
After submissions are rescored, students’ submissions remain as they appeared at the time of submission. This preserves the integrity of the original item and responses.
Submission scores are based on the answer choices selected, not the content of the answer choices.
To ensure accurate rescoring:
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Do not edit the text of answer choices in a way that changes the correct answer.
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If you need to reorder answer choices, use drag and drop in Rescore Submissions to adjust the order instead of editing the text directly. Editing text does not trigger a rescore.
Rescored results are automatically updated in both the assessment and the gradebook.