Accessing Items in Reports

An assessment report table that displays scores for individual non-secure items The questions on a test also allows you to access the items as they appeared on the assessment. You can access items in a blank state or with a student’s entered response.

Adaptive tests Computer-administered tests that tailor the selection of test items during the administration of the assessment based on the responses of examinees using the adaptive algorithm do not allow item access except when you’ve accessed an individual student in the Student Performance on Test report. Secure items can never be accessed in reports. Summative test items are secure. Screener test items are secure.

To access an item:

Do either of the following:

• To access an item in a blank state, select the item number in the column header. Report tables that list aggregates only allow you to access items in a blank state.
• To access a student’s response to the item, find that student’s name in the Student column on the left. Then select the score the student obtained on that item.

The item window appears. Refer to About the Item Window.

To navigate to other items and students from the item window:

• To access another item for the same student, select or at the top-left corner.
• To access the same item for another student, use the dropdown list of student names above the item or select or to the right of the dropdown.

About the Item Window

A banner at the top of the window displays the item’s number and score (only when you’re accessing a student’s response), as well as confidence level (only when the response has a machine-generated score with a low confidence level). The item is displayed below, and may include a particular student’s response.

The item window may include the following sections, which vary by item.

• Item Score: When you’re viewing a student's response and the item has scoring criteria, the Item Score table appears, listing the name, maximum points, and earned points or condition codes for each scoring criterion. This table also allows users with scoring permissions to modify scores for certain items. For more information, refer to Entering or Modifying Item Scores.
• Scoring Assertion: When you’re viewing a student’s response and the item has scoring assertions, a table lists each assertion and outcome. A scoring assertion contains a statement that provides information about what the student did in their response, and the content knowledge, skill, or ability that is evidenced by their response.
• Item: Displays the item as it appeared on the assessment in the Student Testing Site. If the item is associated with a passage, the passage also appears.
  • When you’re viewing a student’s response and the student tested with test settings (such as larger font size), you can use the Student Settings switch to show or hide the student’s settings in the item view.
  • When a student’s response consists largely of text copied from the prompt, and the appropriate condition code indicates that, the copied text is highlighted.
  • Items are displayed in English by default. If an item is available in multiple languages, you can use the Item Language dropdown list at the upper-right corner to select a language.

The Rubric & Resources switch allows you to display a panel that may include the following sections, which you can expand and collapse by selecting and , respectively.

• Item Details: May include the following sub-sections:
  • Topic: Reporting category or skill area to which the item belongs.
  • Item Difficulty: Indicates whether the item is intended to be easy, moderate, or difficult.
  • Content Alignment: Describes the standard and claim to which the item is aligned.
• Resources: Provides links to any exemplars or training guides available for the item.
• Rubric: Displays the criteria used to score the item. This section may also include a score breakdown, a human-readable rubric, or an exemplar, which provides an example of a response for each point value.
• Frequency Distribution of Student Responses: This section appears on fixed-form assessment items and contains a table providing a breakdown of how many students in the school earned each possible point value available for the item.