Creating Quiz Reports: Item Analysis
Intended Audience
WSU instructors using Brightspace or those interested in using this learning management system (LMS) the future to conduct item analysis on their quiz questions.
Overview
This article describes how instructors can create reports for analyzing quiz questions to assess question quality. Instructors can set date restrictions, view, export, and analyze reports as they evaluate question quality within the built-in html report viewer or export to external statistical software packages for additional analysis.
How to run an item analysis report on quizzes
Before you can run a quiz report you will need to set up the report within the quiz. See the directions below for creating a quiz report. When you set up the quiz report you will want to select the Questions Statistic option and all sub-options in this section of the report setup form so you can conduct an item analysis. Now you can run your item analysis report.
Creating Reports
1. Go to the Assessment menu and select Quizzes.
2. From the list of quizzes select the pull-down menu to the right of the quiz you want to create a report for and select Setup Reports.
3. Click on the Add Report button.
4. Make the choices for all statistics you would like to have in your report.
5. Make sure to choose the Instructor role for who the report will be released to so you can view the report once it is run.
Steps to run item analysis
1. Go to the Assessment menu and select Quizzes. From the list of quizzes select the pull-down menu to the right of the quiz you want to run a report for and select View Reports.
2. Choose the Report you created from the list of reports you created.
3. Once you are in the View Report screen (see below) you can choose to set specific dates to run this analysis on and then either select the Generate CSV Report button to conduct analysis (i.e. export this to Excel, SPSS, SAS), Generate Excel, or simply select the Generate HTML Report button and you can view the D2L generated report without having to do any analysis.
Related Wiki Topics
- Brightspace Quizzes basics checklist
- Set quiz accommodations in the Classlist
- Secure online assessment
- Proctor LockDown Browser quiz in Zoom
- Access external websites in LockDown Browser
- Manage Brightspace tests and quizzes
- Updating Quiz Attempts to Gradebook
- Respondus Monitor For Students
- Respondus Monitor
- Quizzes in Brightspace - Student View
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