Item Analysis provides statistics on overall test performance and on individual test questions. This data helps faculty recognize questions that might not adequately discriminate between students who understand the material and those who do not. Faculty can use this information to improve questions for future tests or to adjust credit on current attempts. Ineffective or misleading question are identified easily, then corrected in the Test Canvas and re-graded automatically.
Question analysis provides statistics on overall performance, assessment quality, and individual questions. This data helps you recognize questions that might be poor discriminators of student performance. Question analysis is available for assessments with questions, whether those were created as Tests or Assignments. You can run a report before all submissions are in if you want to check the quality of your questions and make changes.
Uses for question analysis:
You can run and access a previous question analysis report from these course areas:
Question analysis provides the following statistics:
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