What do you want to do?
- view quiz details
- view survey details
- download statistics on student responses to your own computer
- view quiz summaries
- include quiz questions in question statistics
- view individual student performance
- compare the performance of a subset of students, in a quiz, against all students
- view a graphical representation of question responses
Note: Before you can view quiz details, students' quizzes must be graded, and you must update the details table for the quiz.
- From the Course Menu, click , the Quizzes/Surveys screen appears.
- Locate the quiz for which you want to view details and click . The Detail screen appears.
- Under Options: Manage Columns, click . The quiz Detail screen updates and the details table for the quiz appears.
Details table
Each student who has completed the quiz shows as a row in the table, which contains the following columns:
- Last Name
- First Name
- User ID
- Grade
- a column for each question in the quiz, and each part of a matching question. The column also contains the student's response to the question. Note: Calculated questions do not appear in the details table.
You can:
- sort the details table.
- view statistics for a specific question.
- refine your selection of students, with search criteria.
- show or hide specific columns.
- export the quiz details to disk.
- paste student records from your clipboard.
Sorting the Details Table | Viewing Statistics | Top
From the Detail screen, locate the column by which you want to sort the table and click its title. The Detail screen updates and the table is sorted by the selected column.
Viewing Summary Statistics for Specific Questions | Viewing Statistics | Top
From the Detail screen, locate the column for which you want to view the summary statistics and click Summary . The Detail Summary screen appears with the summary statistics for the selected question displayed. For more information, see Question Summaries .
Refining Your Selection of Students | Viewing statistics | Top
- From the Detail screen, under Options: Search, from the Search drop-down list, select whether to search All records or Listed records.
- From the Criteria drop-down list, select the column in the details table to search, such as Last Name or Grade.
- From the Comparison drop-down list, select the search operation:
- Contains: Searches a column for records that contain the text string.
- Starts with: Searches a column for records that start with the specified text string.
- Equals: Searches a column for numerical values equal to the one specified in the text box.
- Greater than: Searches a column for numerical values greater than that specified in the text string.
- Less than: Searches a column for numerical values less than that specified in the text string.
- After: Searches a column for alphabetical values that occur after the specified text string.
- Before: Searches a column for alphabetical values that occur before the specified text string.
- Ends with: Searches a column for any record that ends with the specified text string.
- Blank: Searches a column for any record that has no information in the column.
- Not blank: Searches a column for all the records that contains any information.
- In the Value text box, enter the text to search for.
- Click . The Detail screen updates to display the records that satisfy the search criteria in the table.
Showing All Records in the Details Table | Viewing Statistics | Top
From the Detail screen, under Options: Manage Columns, click . The Detail screen updates to display all student records in the table.
Update the Details Table | Viewing Statistics | Top
Note: To ensure that you are seeing the most recent results, you must update the details table. WebCT will notify you if the table is out of date and needs to be updated.
From the Detail screen, under Options: Manage Columns, click . The Detail screen updates to display the latest quiz details in the table.
Showing or Hiding Specific Columns | Viewing Statistics | Top
- From the Detail screen, under Options: Manage Columns, click . The Hide/Show Columns screen appears.
- Do one of the following:
- To hide columns, above each column you want to hide, select the check box.
- To show columns, above each column you want to show, deselect the check box.
- Click . The Detail screen appears and the specified columns are shown or hidden from view.
Exporting Quiz Details to Disk| Viewing Statistics | Top
You can export the quiz detail information to your computer in a tab-delimited text format.
- From the Detail screen, under Options: Manage Columns, click . A dialog box for your browser appears.
- Make your selections to download the file. The file is saved to your computer as a .txt file.
Pasting Student Records from the clipboard | Viewing Statistics | Top
If student records have been copied to your clipboard in Manage Students, you can include them in the details table.
From the Detail screen, under Options: Manage Columns, click. The Detail screen updates and the student records are pasted from the clipboard into the table. For more information, see Manage Students- copying student records.
Note: Before you can view survey details, students' surveys must be submitted, and you must update the details table.
- From the Course Menu, click . The Quizzes/Surveys screen appears.
- Locate the survey for which you want to view details and click . The Detail screen appears.
- Under Options: Manage Columns, click . The Detail screen updates and the details table for the survey appears.
Details table
Survey responses are anonymous, and WebCT assigns each student an ID number. Each student who has completed the survey shows as a row in the table, which contains:
- ID number
- a column for each question in the survey. Note: This column contains each student's response to the question.
You can:
- sort the details table.
- View summary statistics for a specific question.
- Refine your selection of students, with search criteria.
- Show or hide specific columns.
- Export survey details to disk.
Sorting the Details Table | Viewing Statistics | Top
From the Detail screen, locate the column by which you want to sort the table and click its title. The Detail screen updates and the table is sorted by the selected column.
Viewing Summary Statistics for Specific Questions| Viewing Statistics | Top
From the Detail screen, locate the question for which you want to view summary statistics and click . The Detail Summary screen appears. For more information, see Question summaries .
Refining your Selection of Students | Viewing Statistics | Top
- From the Detail screen, under Options: Search, from the Search drop-down list, select whether to search All records or Listed records.
- From the Criteria drop-down list, select the column in the details table to search, such as Last Name or Grade.
- From the Comparison drop-down list, select
the search operation:
- Contains: Searches a column for records that contain the text string.
- Starts with: Searches a column for records that start with the specified text string.
- Equals: Searches a column for numerical values equal to the one specified in the text box.
- Greater than: Searches a column for numerical values greater than that specified in the text string.
- Less than: Searches a column for numerical values less than that specified in the text string.
- After: Searches a column for alphabetical values that occur after the specified text string.
- Before: Searches a column for alphabetical values that occur before the specified text string.
- Ends with: Searches a column for any record that ends with the specified text string.
- Blank: Searches a column for any record that has no information in the column.
- Not blank: Searches a column for all the records that contains any information.
- In the Value text box, enter the text to search for.
- Click . The details table updates to display the detail records that satisfy the search criteria.
Showing all Records in the Details Table| Viewing Statistics | Top
From the Detail screen, under Options: Manage Columns, click . The Detail screen updates to display all student records.
Updating the Details Table | Viewing Statistics | Top
You can view the student responses to the survey at any time. To ensure that you are seeing the most recent results, you must update the details table. Note: WebCT notifies you if the table needs to be updated.
From the Detail screen, under Options: Manage Columns, click . The Detail screen updates and the most recent results are displayed in the table.
Showing or Hiding Specific Columns | Viewing Statistics | Top
You can select specific columns to show or hide in the table.
- From the Detail screen, under Options: Manage Columns, click . The Hide/Show Columns screen appears.
- Do one of the following:
- To hide columns, above the columns you want to hide, select the check box.
- To show columns, above the columns you want to show, deselect the check box.
- Click . The Detail screen appears and the selected columns are shown or hidden from view.
Exporting Survey Details to Disk| Viewing Statistics | Top
You can export the survey details to your computer in a tab-delimited text format.
- From the Detail screen, under Options: Manage Columns, click . A dialog box for your browser appears.
- Make your selections to download the file. The file is saved to your computer as a .txt file.
You can view statistics for graded questions in a quiz. Before you can view quiz summaries, students' quizzes must be submitted and graded, and you must update the summary table.
Summary table
- From the Course Menu, click . The Quizzes/Surveys screen appears.
- Locate the quiz for which you want to view the summary statistics and click . The Summary screen appears.
- Under Options, click . The Summary screen updates to display the summary table.
The table shows statistical information for each question:
- Title: the title of the question. Use the Magnifying Glass to preview the question.
- N: the number of student responses for the question.
- % Correct of:
- Whole Group: the percentage of students who answered the question correctly.
- Upper 25%: the percentage of students in the upper 25% of quiz scores who answered this question correctly.
- Lower 25%: the percentage of students in the lower 25% of quiz scores who answered this question correctly.
- Discrimination: an indication as to how well the question relates between high versus low scores. Higher values indicate better discrimination. A negative value indicates that the lower-scoring portion of the class performed better on this question than the high-scorers.
- Mean: the average score for a question.
- SD: the standard deviation of the results from the average score.
Including Quiz Questions in Question Statistics | Top
You can keep track of how a particular question has performed over time by updating the question statistics for all of the questions on a quiz. The statistics are updated in the Question Database. For information on viewing the statistics, see Question Database - Question Statistics. Note: You can update question statistics only once for a quiz. You should wait until all students have completed the quiz, and all of the questions have been graded, before updating question statistics.
- From the Summary screen, click . A confirmation message appears.
- Click OK. The summary information is added to the question statistics.: Question statistics for multiple choice questions must be updated separately. For more information, see Detailed multiple choice question statistics.
Viewing Individual Student Performances | Top
You can view more detailed statistics on student performance in a quiz. You can view:
- summary statistics: display student results for every quiz attempt
- item statistics: display student results for every question in a quiz
Viewing Summary Statistics | Top
Summary statistics compare student results for every quiz attempt. You can view individual students or subsets of students, depending on how you want to view statistics. Subsets are formed by grouping students that share the same designation from a column in Manage Students. For example, if the course contains a column in Manage Students that lists the names of groups to which each student belongs, you could select that column from the Select the report criteria drop-down list and show statistics comparing each group. The summary statistics table includes the following columns:
- Group Sort Title: the title of the field that you used for your search. For example, User ID.
- N: the number of attempts at the quiz.
- Mean: the average score for all of the quiz attempts.
- SD: the standard deviation of the student score from the average score.
- From the Course Menu, click . The Quizzes/Surveys screen appears.
- Locate the quiz for which you want to view the summary statistics and click . The Reports screen appears.
- Under Options: Display Report, from the Select the report criteria drop-down list, select the column in Manage Students on which you want to run the report, such as Last Name or User ID.
- Under Select the report type, select Summary statistics.
- Click . The Reports: Summary Statistics screen appears with the summary statistics displayed in a table according to the selected report criteria.
Item statistics compare student results for every question in a quiz. You can view individual students or subsets of students, depending on how you want to view statistics. Subsets are formed by grouping students that share the same designation from a column in Manage Students. For example, if the course contains a column in Manage Students that lists the names of groups to which each student belongs, you could select that column from the Select the report criteria drop-down list and show statistics comparing each group with the class.
Item statistics are presented in a table, which includes the following columns:
- Title: the title of the question.
- N: the number of student responses for the question.
- % Correct of:
- Whole Group: the percentage of students in the subset who answered the question correctly.
- Upper 25%: the percentage of students in the subset, in the upper 25% of quiz scores, who answered this question correctly.
- Lower 25%: the percentage of students in the subset, in the lower 25% of quiz scores, who answered this question correctly.
- Discrimination: an indication as to how well the question relates between high versus low scorers. Higher values indicate better discrimination. A negative value indicates that the lower-scoring portion of the class performed better on this question than the high-scorers.
- Mean: the average score for a question.
- SD: the standard deviation of the results from the average score.
- Group Performance
- N: the total number of all student responses for the question.
- Mean: the average score of all students for the question.
- SD: the standard deviation of the results from the average score.
Note: A separate table is shown for each subset of students.
- From the Course Menu, click . The Quizzes/Surveys screen appears.
- Locate the quiz for which you want to view the item statistics and click . The Reports screen appears.
- Under Options: Display Report, from the Select the report criteria drop-down list, select the criteria on which you want to run the report, such as Last Name or User ID.
- Under Select the report type, select Item statistics.
- Click . The Reports: Item Statistics screen appears with the item statistics displayed in a table according to the selected report criteria.
Viewing Summary Statistics for Questions| Top
You can view summary information for each question in the quiz.
- From the Course Menu, click . The Quizzes/Surveys screen appears.
- Locate the quiz or survey for which you want to view summary statistics and click . The Detail screen appears.
- Locate the question for which you want to view the summary statistics and, below the question title, click the link. The Detail Summary screen appears with the summary statistics for the selected question displayed.
All question summaries display the question and possible answer choices. Other information depends upon the question type.
You can view:
If the multiple choice question allowed the student to select only one correct answer, a frequency distribution shows in tabular format. The frequency distribution is displayed in both numerical and graphical formats. Note: For surveys, the Value column is omitted.
The correct answer for a multiple choice question is in bold and italics. In the example above, one student answered correctly by choosing answer (a), while three students answered incorrectly.
If the multiple choice question allowed the student to choose more than two of the choices, two tables are shown. The first table shows a histogram of all answer combinations, and the second table shows the combined frequency for each choice.
In the example above, one student received a score of 100% by choosing 1, 2, 3, and 5 as his answers. Two other students received a score of 75% for this question by choosing 1, 2, 3, and 4 as their answers.
In the example above, three students chose answer 1 as one of their answer choices. The value 25% represents the value of the answer. For example, by selecting answer 1 in the multiple choice selection, a student would receive a mark of 25%. However, by selecting answers 3 and 4, the same student would receive a mark of 25%. The Cumulative Frequency Distribution table displays the total number of students that selected each answer.
Viewing Detailed Multiple Choice Question Statistics | Question summaries | Top
The detailed multiple choice statistics appear in a table, which includes the following information:
- N: the number of students who responded to this question.
- Whole Group: the percentage of students who answered the question correctly.
- Upper 25%: the percentage of students who answered the question correctly, and whose score is in the upper 25% category.
- Lower 25%: the percentage of students who answered the question correctly, and whose score is in the lower 25% category. In the example above, 100% of the upper 25% percentile of students answered the question correctly. Conversely, 66% of the students whose score was in the lower 25% percentile answered this question correctly.
- Discrimination: indicates how well the question relates between high and low scorers. A negative number indicates that the lower-scoring students performed better on this question than the high-scorers.
- Frequency: the number of students who responded to each possible answer. In the example above, three students chose answer one as their answer.
- From the Detail screen, locate the multiple choice question and click . The Detail Summary screen appears with the Response Summary for the question displayed.
- Click Detailed Statistics. The Detailed Statistics Summary screen appears with the statistics displayed in a table.
- If you want to update the question statistics
in the Question Database:
- Click . A confirmation message appears.
- Click . Note: Question statistics for multiple choice questions can only be updated once per quiz. It is best to wait until all students have completed the quiz and all questions have been satisfactorily graded before updating the multiple choice question statistics.
- If you want to view more detailed multiple choice statistics, click
. The More
Detailed Statistics Summary appears with the information displayed
in a table.
Note: WebCT shows the number and percentage of respondents for each multiple choice answer. In the example above, column N shows that three students answered the question. The "-" column indicates the number of students who submitted the quiz without answering the question. Answer (c) was selected by two students (or 66.7% of students). The 2 is in bold and italics, which indicates that it is the correct answer for this question. Only one student answered incorrectly by selecting Answer (b).
Viewing Matching Question Statistics | Question summaries | Top
You can view matching question statistics:
- for a specific answer.
- for all answer choices.
Viewing Matching Question Statistics for Specific Answers | Question summaries | Top
From the Detail screen, locate the matching question answer for which you want to view statistics and click . The Detail Summary screen appears with the question statistics in a table.
In the example above, two students chose the correct answer, Edmonton, which appears in bold and italics.
Note: For survey results, no correct answer is identified.
Viewing Matching Question Statistics for All Answers | Question summaries | Top
- From the Detail screen, locate an answer for the matching question for which you want to view statistics and click . The Detail Summary screen appears.
- Click Combined Results. The Combined Results screen appears with the statistics for all of the answers in separate tables.
Note: The green bars indicate the frequency of correct answers, and the red bars indicate the frequency of incorrect answers.
The second table displays a histogram of the number of times a particular choice was selected.
You can view short answer question summaries:
- for a specific answer box.
- For all answer boxes.
Viewing Short Answer Question Statistics for Specific Answer Boxes | Question Summaries | Top
From the Detail screen, locate the short answer and click . The Detail Summary screen appears with the statistics for the selected answer displayed in a table.
.Viewing Short Answer Question Statistics for All Answer Boxes | Question Summaries | Top
- From the Detail screen, locate the short answer and click Summary. The Detail Summary screen appears and the statistics for the selected answer are displayed in a table.
- Click Combined results. The Combined Results screen appears with the statistics for all answer boxes displayed in separate tables.
From the Detail screen, locate the paragraph question for which you want to view statistics and click . The Detail Summary screen appears with the responses displayed in a table.
