This section looks at how to obtain question analysis for the whole cohort or individual
groups.
So once the students have sat the exam and you've put in their marks, it's now time to
analyse and we can do it for results of a group by looking at the group and taking individual
students within that group. Or we can just search for an individual student, but often
it's better to look at the group because you'll see the individual scores and you'll see who's
underachieved who's been value added, and who's on target.
So we're going to look at a group just for example, and now we're going to go to find
the group. Let's find a foundation Maths group. This one's a big group of 105, so it's almost
like a whole cohort.
That's all the different Mocks they sat, and there's that November 2019 paper that we looked
at earlier.
So they sat that paper as mock rather than a public exam.
So it’s going to be loading up the students' results now and processing it from that spreadsheet
that you put in while it's loading up.
There's also an opportunity to import or export all the material so you can actually get it
as a kind of spreadsheet builder marks in a different way, which I'll show you later,
and you can print it out.
There's all your students, so we can go up and down our class and say on that particular
is obviously paper one that you can choose the different papers. This student, he didn't
do very well and he got 19 out of 80, so let's have a look at that student in a bit more
detail. Let's see what questions.
So again, there's the three papers that students sat. They got 24%, 14% and 21%. But this is
again you can choose which different paper. This is the first paper.
And again we got some exam papers not too good at the beginning.
What these residuals are now, this is an interesting feature. You can edit the comparison of how
that student compared with students who sat that exam when it was a public exam. So we're
actually comparing the students across the country that took that November 2019 paper.
But supposing this student is quite weak within that class, that foundation class, and they're
targeting the really operating at grade three, they want to get a four, but they're operating
at grades three, so we could be aspirational and say well, let's compare you with students
who got the four or let's compare with the students that are roughly of your ability
So I put the three in and suddenly the residuals ... well haven't changed much here ... but
they will change the residuals according to how. So if you touch it, that tells you that
the student actually did worse than 76% of the country on that question of students of
that ability to what they can't help. You know you're not comparing them with students
who got a 5 or a 1. I'm comparing it with students like for likes or really.
For you, that's not a very good question for students of your ability or assumed ability
going for the 3 at this one here is good. You did 38% better than students of your ability
on that question.
Now you might think what is question three, and so if you touch the skills map little
icon here with the three symbols, then that's applying four operations. I will show you
the skills map in a bit more detail, but that just gives you a quick kind of picture.
So with the student with the paper next to them. At least you know which skills areas
they have done very bad.
This is obviously a very weak student, so that's one thing. So that's just the analysis
that the exam docs are really a repeat of what we already got, but you've got the principle
examiners report there as well, which could be quite revealing.
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