What can I ask Ed to analyze an assessment’s results?

Here are ideas of requests to dig into the results of one assessment. You can ask them in “Talk to Ed!”, or directly from the assessment’s “Insights” tab with the “Explore with Ed” button.

General analysis

• “What is the class’s overall success rate on this assessment?”

• “What is the score distribution in the class?”

• “What are the mean, median, highest and lowest scores?”

• “What is the standard deviation of the scores? Is the class homogeneous or mixed?”

• “What is the students’ mastery level on each skill assessed?”

• “Is there a notable change in results compared with the last assessment?”

• “What share of papers show very strong results?”

• “What share of papers show serious difficulties?”

• “Compare this class’s results with my other sections’ results on the same assessment.”

• “Is there a notable change on skills already assessed in previous assessments?”

Detail by exercise

• “Which exercises gave students the most trouble?”

• “Which questions gave students the most trouble?”

• “Which questions best separated the students who mastered the content from the others?”

• “Which errors came up most often on exercise [ … ]?”

• “What is the mastery level of the skills assessed, exercise by exercise?”

• “Compare this class’s results with my other sections’ results on exercise [ … ].”

• “Which exercises or questions went best?”

Detail by skill or concept

• “Which skills or concepts gave students the most trouble?”

• “Which errors came up most often on [skill or concept]?”

• “Summarize the most common misconceptions on this assessment.”

• “Which skills or concepts has the class mastered overall?”

• “Can you rank the skills or concepts by success rate?”

• “Which reteaching activities do you recommend to work on [skill or concept]?”

• “What class-wide reteaching priorities come out of this analysis?”

Breakdown by student profile

• “Can you group students by mastery level? (for example: on track, struggling, to watch)”

• “Which students did especially well on [skills]?”

• “Who improved since the last assessment? Who fell behind?”

• “Which recurring errors show up in the papers of struggling students?”

• “Which groups of students could work together to improve on certain concepts?”

• “Suggest ways to differentiate based on these results.”