Reading and item analysis

Reading Item Analysis is found in the Group Reports

To find out what questions correspond to a particular type of comprehension, you will need to login to your account and go to the Reports tab and choose the Groups tab.

Once your students have completed a Proficient Reading assessment, go to the Reports tab and select “Group”. Then, click on the Proficient Reading test your students have taken. The window will open, extending beyond view on the bottom of the screen. Scroll down the page and you will see “item analysis” report, which is where each specific type of comprehension item measures a different category:

Literal Comprehension = information can be found directly in the text.

Inferential Comprehension = information that must be ‘inferred’ from more than one place in the text.

Evaluative Comprehension = information that must be pulled from more than one place in the text and then ‘filtered’ through a lens of ‘which is most correct, given the details and nuances in the text.

To find out what questions your students got correct or incorrect, scroll down to the bottom of the page to the “Students” section. There, to the right of each student name, you can click on “View Test” to access the test the student completed. You will be able to view the correct response for each question as well as the incorrect response the student chose.

Teachers can create an unlimited amount of groups and assign students across groups. The teacher can then select which groups are included in the reports. The depth of group reporting functionality is a unique feature of easyCBM.

Group Reports can be used to help with data collection; they can be exported in a .CSV format (which allows them to be opened using Excel) so that users can further compile and sort data, create graphs, and import the data into other programs. They include data for assessments taken and percentile scores. Clicking on specific reports leads users to a graphical breakdown of group and student performance.

To get to the Groups reports, go to the Reports tab on your desktop then select the Groups tab. Choose the name of the group by clicking on it, then click on the test under the CBMs section. Now scroll down the page to view the Summary, the Item Analysis, and have the optio to view the individual graph and the actual student test.