Resources - CCS

Guide to Your Results

The Test Response System issues a printout that shows the results of the examination. Grading reports in plain text and Excel formats will be included in the email.

Results are described from two points of view:

• Students' performance (measured absolutely and relatively) and
• The efficiency of the examination in gauging student achievement.

The examples in this section will be illustrated with results from ten students who answered an examination with eight questions. The students' names and their answers are shown in the table below. Questions whose answers were left blank are represented with a period (.) and answers where the student chose more than one response are shown with an asterisk (*).

Emslie & Emslie (1992) present a detailed analysis of the example. The article offers suggestions for the interpretation of TRS statistics and shows how the psychometric indices help identify good and bad questions. The paper is available on request from the authors.

                                
       Question number                 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 
       Correct answers                 1 2 3 4 5 1 2 3 
       Student                  Students'        
       number                  Name    answers  
       1111111119              Ann     1 2 3 4 5 1 2 1 
       1111111111              Bob     1 2 4 4 * 1 2 3 
       1111111118              Cam     1 2 5 4 5 5 2 2 
       1111111112              Don     1 2 3 4 1 3 2 4 
       1111111117              Eve     . 2 1 4 5 2 2 3 
       1111111113              Fay     1 2 3 3 4 1 3 5 
       1111111116              Guy     1 . 3 5 1 1 2 1 
       1111111114              Hal     1 2 2 1 * 1 2 2 
       1111111115              Ian     1 . 3 2 3 1 3 4 
       1111111110              Joy     1 . 3 1 2 4 3 5

The printout is divided into thirteen parts:
     Part 1 - Frequencies
     Part 2 - Exam analysis
     Part 3 - Student answers
Results for all questions
     Part 4 - Final results by name
     Part 14 - Final results by name and student number
     Part 5 - Final results by student number
     Part 6 - Alternative maximum score by name
     Part 7 - Alternative maximum score by student number

Reports by Topics, see instructions for Including Topics in your Results.
Questions arranged by topic -- Student names
     Part 8 - Topics: Student names and raw scores
     Part 9 - Topics: Student names and percentage scores
     Part 10 - Topics: Student names and adjusted scores
Questions arranged by topic -- Student identification numbers
     Part 11 - Topics: Student numbers and raw scores
     Part 12 - Topics: Student numbers and percentage scores
     Part 13 - Topics: Student numbers and adjusted scores

    Appendix A - Guide to guessing and sample instructions
    Appendix B - Statistical expressions
    Appendix C - Improving Classroom Multiple-Choice Tests
    References