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Group Student Responses to a Formative by Standards

Learn how to perform a standards based item analysis by viewing responses grouped by standards

Written by Neta Raz Studnitski

If you've tagged your questions to standards, you have the ability perform a Standards Based Item Analysis from within the "Responses" tab of your formative. A Standards Based Item Analysis is a way to aggregate results by standards first, and the under the results of the items/questions aligned to those standards. This type of analysis allows teachers to group/categorize questions to understand misconceptions students have.

The data driven from the Standards Based Item Analysis can provide teachers with answers to questions such as:

  • Which 3 standards did students overall do worst on?

  • How did Class A do on standard X compared to the average of all students?

  • Is there a question for standard X that students in Class B did the worst on?

  • Are there any standards that only specific students got completely wrong?

  • How did a specific student do on standard X?

  • Can you identify any students that started the exam doing well and then poorly toward the end?

  • Which question did students do worst on?

  • Which students performed best on standard X?
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Answering such questions can help teachers identify which concepts students are not understanding and why they are struggling based on the performance on "items" / questions within that standard group.

When you select to group responses by 'Standards' at the top of the formative's Responses screen, the "Responses" summary will be divided into a column-type view in which each question is indexed to its column, and grouped under the standard it was tagged to. If a question is tagged to multiple standards, it will appear under each of them.

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