Student item analysis

Use the Student Item Analysis report to analyze a test by a student at the item level, and compare class performance to school and district performance. Analysis data is displayed using summary charts and scores tables.

Access student item analysis

Results only display for students to whom you have access and tests that meet the following criteria:

• Honor any filters set for the school, teacher, course, or class

• Have been released

• Have generated and loaded student data

1. From the main navigation menu, choose Reports, then Student Item Analysis.

2. Choose a Test Title.

   • Test selection:

     • honors filters set for the school, teacher, course, or class

     • only includes released tests

     • includes only those with generated and loaded student data

Filter options

Click Additional Filters, then choose from the following options:

• Add Student Filter - Choose from the Student Filters to limit the student population. Setting filters for school, teacher, course, or class limits the test selection choices.

  • Active Filters - Indicates the filters that are currently applied.

  • Test Window - This filter is only available if the test had more than one test window. You can choose multiple test windows; however, if you choose only one, then the displayed results are from the most recent test window.

Correct a response or score

You can update student responses to correct scoring discrepancies. This is especially useful for interaction types like text entry, which may not have enough correct answer variations to capture all responses the teacher wants to count as correct.

To correct responses or scores, student response editing must be enabled for the test.

To change this setting, you must have Update permissions to the test. This option is enabled by default for teachers who build a private test.

• In the Item Scores or Interaction Scores table, click the cell containing the score that needs to be updated.

  • Click Edit Response.

  • Update the student response. If appropriate, this also updates the student's score.

    Only machine-scored interaction types can be updated using this process. While responses to rubric-scored items may be editable, the score is not updated. Updates to rubric scores should be done using the scoring assignment for the test.

  • Click Save.

You must refresh your browser to review an updated score in the scores table.

Create a new shared report

1. Click Save to create the shared report.

2. Enter the Description.

3. Click Save.

4. If the information is correct, click Permissions.

5. Click Add user or group.

6. Add the individual users by name or add users by role. Click and hold the Control key on a PC, or the Command key on a Mac, to add multiple users or groups at once.

7. Click OK.

8. Select permissions for each displayed group.

   Assign Read access to the district to share this report with the entire district.

9. Click Save.

10. Click OK.

Export results to your gradebook

You can export assessment results to your Gradebook account.

Before exporting assessment results, you must filter to a single class. You can only submit student scores for one class section at a time.

Gradebook is only available for teachers with access to PowerTeacher Pro or eSchoolPlus.

1. Click Gradebook.

2. Enter the required information.
   If the test has previously been sent to Gradebook, then all required attributes are auto-filled and disabled.

3. Click Submit.

Summary charts and scores tables

Reports include two primary sections: Summary Charts and Scores Tables.

You can choose from the following actions when reviewing Summary Charts and Scores Tables:

• Sorting - Click on a column header that includes a double-arrow to sort by that column.

  • Export - Export the current display of the tables, honoring any filters selected.

    • Click Excel to export a Microsoft Excel file with tabs for Item Scores and Interaction Scores, including full tables and color-coding.

    • Click CSV to export a basic Interactions Scores table.

Opening the CSV file with Excel or another spreadsheet application may result in improper formatting of cell data. Format the cells as text for an appropriate overview of the data.

• Click Share to create a custom link that can be copied and shared with other users. The link includes any selected student filters.

Reviewing the content of a high-stakes test or any of its items requires a user to have high-stakes administrator permission. Only an administrator can assign high-stakes administrator permission to a user or group.

Hover over an item to review its statistics.

Summary charts

Summary Charts are organized into three tabs: Item Attributes, Performance Bands, and Item Detail.

Item attributes

The Item Attributes tab includes the standards assessed on the test and the percentage of students in each performance band assigned to that assessment.

Choose an attribute type to display a breakdown of the student percentage:

• Hover over a standard to display the full standard description.

  • Click on a count to filter the results in the score table to only items with that attribute. Click again to clear the filter.

  • The bars for % of Students are color-coded to match the test's performance bands. Hover over a section of the bar to display the count and percent details. Click on a section of the bar to filter the report by the students represented by that count for that attribute. Click again to remove the filter.

  • Click a swatching box to include or exclude that performance band in the percentage value displayed in the column.

    • A solid-filled box means the data for that color band is included. A partially filled box indicates data for that color band is excluded.

    • The value is the student percentage for all selected performance bands for each attribute.

  • Hover over an average to display the PE/PP (points earned / points possible).

Some districts may have Professional Development Platforms enabled.

Tests that use standards that are aligned to content from the platform have an icon next to the standard.

The stacked bar graph displays the overall performance band percentages using the test's performance band colors. Hover over a section to display details.

For teachers, this graph includes comparisons across student, school, and district performance. School and district-level users can display these comparisons by setting the school of enrollment and teacher filters.

If you use the school of instruction filter, all three bar graphs for comparison will not display. You must use the school of enrollment filter.

Performance bands

• Select the Performance Bands tab to review the student population percentage for each achievement level.

  • The stacked bar graph displays the overall performance band percentages using the test's performance band colors. Hover over a section to display details.

  • Select a section of the graph to filter the report by students in that performance band. Click the row again to clear the filter.

Item detail

• Select the Item Detail tab to review score or response distributions for individual test items, interactions, and rubrics.

  • Click the item number in the header.

  • To display interaction choices distributions, click the bar chart icon. Only available for multiple choice interactions.

The bar chart provides an overview of all possible response scores for the selected item, interaction, or rubric. The graph also provides comparisons across student, school, and district performance. For multiple-choice interactions, the interaction choice displays the answer choice distribution).

• Hover over a bar to display the count and percentage details.

  • Click on a bar to filter the report by students represented by that score.

  • Choose from the display selector to switch between item-level, interaction-level, and rubric-level.

Another chart displays the overall percentage of points earned over the points possible for the selected item.

• Hover over the sections of the outer ring to display the total number of students who answered correctly or incorrectly.

  • Hover over the inner ring to display item details.

This report includes several item statistics.

Score tables

The Score Table includes up to four tabs: Interaction Scores, Item Scores, Rubric Scores, and Item Engaged Duration.

Rubric Scores only display if the test includes items that require manual scoring using a rubric.

Select the Interaction Scores, Item Scores, Rubric Scores, or Item Engaged Duration tab. If the test contains manually scored interactions, select the Rubric Scores tab to review the breakdown of scores by rubric or scorer for the currently selected student population.

Understand the scores

Interaction scores

Items scores

Rubric scores

If a column is blank and has the label n/a, this is an item that has no student response because a teacher has not yet released this test section to the student, or the student has not completed the assessment, and the teacher has opened the test for online scoring.

Multi-Part Items

Some items may have more than one interaction. The Student Item Analysis report allows you to review the overall score as well as the score per interaction.

Item scores

Click Item Scores to review the overall score for items. This is the total points earned for all interactions in the item. Click the cell to display all interactions and the student's responses.

Interaction scores

Click Interaction Scores to review the score associated with each interaction. Click on any of the points earned cells to display all the interactions and the student's responses.