Introduction
Please navigate to this password protected page for more detailed information about creating new questions or editing existing questions in BenWare. You will need to log in with your NETID and password.
What are your assessment goals?
Assessment for Learning (AfL)
- Inform decisions about current teaching
- Opportunities for interaction and feedback
Assessment as Learning (AaL)
- Evidence-based learning strategies
- Self-regulation and metacognition
Assessment of Learning (AoL)
- Data to confirm student outcomes
- Opportunities for students to demonstrate proficiency
Assessment Statistics
Exam Performance
When we review exam performance, we look at the discrimination and the difficulty of how questions performed on the exam and over time.
- Discrimination – indicates how well a question differentiates between students who know the subject matter and those who do not. A question is a good discriminator when students who answer the question correctly also do well on the test. Values can range from -1.0 to 1.0 and are calculated using the Pearson Correlation Coefficient. A discrimination value of less than 0.1 or a negative value indicates that the question might need review. Discrimination values cannot be calculated when the question’s difficulty score is 100% or when all students receive the same score on a question.
- Difficulty – the percentage of students who answered the question correctly. Difficulty values can range from 0% to 100%, with a high percentage indicating that the question was easy. Questions in the Easy (greater than 80%) or Hard (less than 30%) categories might need review.