Scores
Learn how to manually score exams.
Access to certain features is restricted based on role type in an effort to reduce item exposure and promote process integrity. Please see the member role description page for information on permissions.
The Scores screen is where you will find assessments and/or items with pending manual reviews that still need to be finalized by an administrative member.
Score Management
The search feature on this page provides the option to search by Assessment or by Item. You will also have the option to add a keyword or a completion date for additional filtering options. In the search results, you will see the following columns:
Search by Assessment
Candidate Name
First and Last
Assessment
Name of Exam
Date Completed
Completion date in DD Month YYYY format
Actions
Score
Current Score
Shows the current total of points earned out of the total possible score, which will update automatically if points are given after manual scoring.
Search by Assessment
Candidate Name
Item ID
Item Text
Note: If a blue file icon is present, that indicates an image is in the item
Date Completed
Actions
Score/Review
Current Score
Shows the current total of points earned out of the total possible score, which will update automatically if points are given after manual scoring.
Score
While searching by Assessment shows ‘Score’ as the action and searching by Item shows ‘Score/Review’ as the action, these ultimately lead towards the outcome, which is completing the ‘Score/Review’ on an item by item basis.
When clicking ‘Score' from the Assessment search results, this will take you to a list of all the items associated with that assessment.
This page will list out:
Item ID
Action
Score/Review
Type
Item type classification:
FB - Fill in the Blank
MA - Matching Answer
MC - Multiple Choice
MS - Multiple Selection
SA - Short Answer / Essay
TF - True or False
Status
Scored or Unscored
Item Text
Clicking on the ‘Finish Later’ button will take you back to the search results page without finalizing the review.
To score an item in that assessment, click on the ‘Score/Review’ link in the table.
Score/Review
This page is where you will be able to review and score individual items. You can get here from the main Scores search results page if you had searched by Item, or, if you searched by Assessment, you would navigate here from selection ‘Score/Review’ from the list of items in the selected Assessment.
The first section of this page will be the content of the item, followed by the candidate’s answer to the question. Below the candidate’s response, there may be an additional section titled ‘Instructor Response’. This is an optional configuration for the item and would only be present if the item writer elected to add this section with additional criteria or information intended to guide the evaluation of the item.
Below are the scoring details:
Point Value - maximum number of points a candidate can earn for this item
Current Score - the reviewer-assigned score for the item
When multiple reviewers enter different scores for a given item, the average of the scores will be displayed (rounded down to the nearest whole number, if applicable)
Score - when manually scoring Short Answer / Essay (SA) items, there will be an input here for you, or anyone reviewing the item, to enter a whole number between 0 and the point value for the item
Comments - a text input section for one reviewer to leaves comments for the next reviewer, as needed
Scoring Log
Scorer - first and last name of each reviewer who has updated and saved a record on this item
Date - the date the record was most recently saved
Score - the score assigned by the last reviewer
Comments - comments added by a reviewer (only one comment per reviewer - reviewers can edit or overwrite their own previous comments)
Click ‘Save’ to complete the scoring for this item or ‘Cancel’ to return to the previous page.