How do I use it?

Step 1: Select an assignment.

When you visit the Item Analysis report, you will be prompted to select an assignment. Selecting an assignment is required to view results. You may search for an assignment by browsing the options in the menu and/or typing the name of your assignment. You may also use the filters on the right side of the assignment selector to narrow your results. These filters include:

Subject: "All," "Math," or "ELA."

When the "Math" or "ELA" subject filter is applied, assignments from lessons that have been aligned to math or ELA academic standards will be shown. Select "All" to include assignments whose lessons are not aligned to academic standards. (These assignments include some activities, such as Section Checkpoints in Illustrative Mathematics and digital activities in EL Education.)

Type: "Assessment", "Activity", or "Full lesson"

The table below outlines which specific digital assignments are classified as each type within all IL Classroom curricula.
"Assessments" are typically designed to assess student understanding at the end of a unit, module, or course. You may select "Activity" or "Full lesson" to gain a view of scored assignments which are geared toward providing students with practice or other non-evaluative opportunities to demonstrate their understanding as they progress through the curriculum. While each type provides insight into student understanding, we recommend its data be used in ways that align to the intent of the assignment.

Types by Curriculum

Curriculum	Assessment	Activity	Full lessons
Illustrative Mathematics	Mid-unit assessments End-of-unit assessments	Check-your-readiness assessments Cool-downs Practice problems Student task statements Checkpoints Applets	Lesson presentations with applets or virtual manipulatives
EL Education	Mid-unit assessments End-of-unit assessments	Vocabulary toolkits Vocabulary logs Independent reading journals Homework Note catchers ALL Block journals Skills Block activities	Daily lessons
Guidebooks	Section quizzes Cold-read tasks Culminating tasks
Odell Education	Section diagnostics Culminating tasks	Section diagnostic checklists Culminating task checklists	Question sets Content-specific tools

Grade level: Grade level of the student(s) who completed the assignment.

Grade levels come from student grade level associations in one of IL Classroom's SIS partners. Grade levels for which there are assignment data will be available for selection. If your site provisioned accounts via CSV, you will not see any grade levels available for selection.

Date range: Date that an item in the assignment last had its score changed.

Date options include the following pre-set ranges: Last 7 days, Last 30 days, Last 90 days, Last 180 days, School year to date (August 1 of the current school year to current date, the report default). Use the calendar to set a custom date range. The earliest start date for Item Analysis is August 1, 2021. Please keep in mind that results are best viewed within a single school year (Aug 1–Jul 31) as grade, school, teacher, etc. associations shift between school years.

The options available for selection within each filter are based on completed and scored assignments. If no students have completed an assignment yet, or if the items in the assignment are not scored, that assignment and its data will not appear as filter options.

Step 2: View your results. Set optional filters to analyze data for specific grades, schools, and teachers.

Once you select an assignment, you will see the following information in your report. You may also set additional filters to narrow your result set.

Assignment information:

The name of the assignment and beside it, a link to go to the assignment's lesson plan.
Contextual information about the assignment, if available, often including the curriculum, grade, unit, or module information.
The average score for the assignment among scores included in your result set.

Item cards:

For each scored item in an assignment, you will see a card with:
- The item number
- The maximum points possible for the item
  - Maximum points possible may be a range of values (e.g., "5–8"). For example, if teachers set different maximum scores for items that do not already have maximum scores set by the curriculum authors, you will see a range.
- The total number of responses for each item
- The average score for the item
- A horizontal stacked bar chart with an item score distribution with the following categories:
  - Not attempted
  - <50%
  - >=50 to <80%
  - >=80%
  - Hover over each section of the bar chart to see 1) the number of responses falling into each category and 2) the average score among the responses in the category. For example, if you hover over the green section of the bar and see an average score of 92%, that means the average score of responses >=80% is 92%.
  - Prior to November 7, 2024, scores of any value that teachers added manually for assignments students completed offline were grouped into the gray "Not attempted" category in these bar charts. Starting November 7, 2024, manually added scores are represented by their corresponding colored score band. Refer to the "Score breakdown" section in the right sidebar to learn more about the distinct scores earned and distribution of students across scores.
You may click on the "Item details" button to see that item's information in the detailed side bar.
When the results represent scores from a teacher's assignment, a "Student responses" button will be enabled on the item card. Click this button to go to the assignment's grading view to review each student's response.
You can order the item cards in the following ways:
- Ordered: the order in which the items appear in the lesson
- Low to high: ordered lowest to highest by average item score
- High to low: ordered highest to lowest by average item score

Keep in mind that only scored items appear as item cards in the Item Analysis report.

To the right of the item cards, you will see a side bar with information about the item, including:

Item stats:
- Maximum points possible for the item
- Total number of responses for the item
- Average score for the item
Standards:
- The standard(s) to which the item is aligned (if aligned). Hover over each standard to see its full description.
Score breakdown:
- The 8 most frequently occurring scores. Next to each score, you will see the number of students who earned the score. When viewing results for a single assignment, you can also view the names of the students earning each score by clicking the arrow to the left of the score.
- If there are more than 8 distinct scores earned by students in your result set, you will see language below the scores list indicating that the number of scores exceeds the maximum we feature in order to provide a concise overview. Refer to the item card with the overall score distribution to get a sense of how additional scores fall.
Item:
- A view of the item with an option to "Show answers" when available, depending on the item type.

You may navigate between items to view a different item's side bar details by:

Clicking on a different item card, or
Clicking "Item details" on a different item card, or
Using the left and right arrows in the upper right of the side bar to move to a different item

Set optional filters:

You may set the additional filters listed below for your result set. Changes will be applied immediately after filter selection. Click outside the filter menus to dismiss them once you complete your selections.

"Who" filters:

Grade: Grade level of the student, via one of IL Classroom's SIS partners. If you previously set grade level filters when selecting an assignment, those filters will be automatically applied to your result set until changed. Grade levels for which you have assignment data will appear as available for selection. If your site provisioned accounts via CSV, you will not see any grade levels available for selection.

School: School associated with the student, per one of IL Classroom's SIS partners or your CSV import. If you did not include schools in your CSV import and wish to add them so that future data will be associated with schools, contact your Customer Success Manager for assistance.

Teacher: Teacher of the students who completed the assignment. You must select a grade and/or school to see teachers.

Class: Class of the students who completed the assignment. You must select a teacher to see classes.

"What" filters:

Graded status: "All" or "Graded." The filter defaults to "All."
- "Graded": includes only assignment and item scores from assignments that either:
  - Have the "Returned with grade" status or
  - Have the "Closed" status and all items and their parts have been scored. Items may be scored via:
    - Auto-scoring (for auto-graded items)
    - Manual scoring
      - Questions with no maximum score set by the curriculum (i.e., those questions with no value for a denominator, "__ /__") must receive a manually entered score to count as "scored" and be categorized as "Graded" in Item Analysis. If you do not want to assign a score to an item that will affect the overall score for the assignment, check the "Exclude from score" option." A score of "0/0" will automatically populate for the item.
      - Items that were not attempted by students have a score of "0" (I.e., assessments which contain fully scored items and items that were not attempted (which have a score of "0") will be visible in the "Graded" view of Item Analysis.)
  - Assignments in which no items were attempted, and therefore have no scores data, are not included in Item Analysis.
- "All": includes all item and assignment scores (graded and ungraded). Items that are ungraded have a score of "0" until a score is assigned.

"When" filters:

Date range: Date that an item in the assignment last had its score changed. If you previously set a date range filter when selecting an assignment, that filter will be automatically applied to your result set until changed. Date options include the following pre-set ranges: Last 7 days, Last 30 days, Last 90 days, Last 180 days, School year to date (August 1, 2022 to current date, the report default). You may use the calendar to set a custom date range. The earliest start date for Item Analysis is August 1, 2021. Please keep in mind that results are best viewed within a single school year (Aug 1–Jul 31) as grade, school, etc. associations shift between school years.