Assessment Template Components

The question weight, response score, and response rating are the assessment template components. They fit together to calculate and display the overall assessment score, rating, and feedback text.

The assessment multiplies a question weight by a response score to achieve a weighted score for an assessment template response. It adds the weighted scores for all responses together to determine the total assessment score. This score falls within a score range calculated in advance, that's also associated with a response rating and feedback text. Therefore, the score range within which the total assessment score falls, determines the rating and feedback text to display for a completed assessment.

Question Weight

The question weight is the relative importance of a question within an assessment template. The template expresses it as a percentage. All of the question weights within a template must total to exactly 100. When you use an assessment template, the template multiplies a question's weight by the score of the question response to produce a weighted score for that response.

Response Score

A response score is the score that the template administrator assigns to a possible question response in the template. The template administrator sets response scores with no upper or lower bounds. The template normalizes each score to accurately score an assessment that uses the template. The template normalizes the response scores by assigning a score of 100 to the highest response score. The template then assigns all other responses a normalized score relative to that highest score.

When you use an assessment template, the template multiplies the normalized score of the question response by the question's weight to produce a weighted score for that response.

Response Rating

A response rating is:

• The rating assigned to a possible response to a question in the template.

• A textual qualification, such as Excellent or Poor that provides a metric other than a numeric score for qualifying the outcome of an assessment.

A response rating relates directly to a response score, and this relationship should ensure that a higher score translates to a higher rating.

Early in the template creation process, the administrator configures ratings to assign to responses. The administrator then assigns scores and ratings to responses, and the application calculates score ranges based on those entries. The application assigns each rating to a score range, and gives the administrator the opportunity to apply feedback text to the rating-score range combination.

When you use an assessment template, the template adds the weighted scores from all responses to determine the total assessment score. That score falls somewhere within the calculated score ranges. These ranges then determine which rating the template assigns to the assessment and what feedback text to display. The maximum total assessment score is 100.