Reviewing SMART Response™ assessment results
Reviewing results in Teacher Tools
If your students use their student IDs to sign in to a
SMART Response™ interactive response system assessment, the results are stored in the Teacher Tools Gradebook.
To review results in the Teacher Tools Gradebook
1. Click the SMART Response icon in the Windows® notification area or Mac menu bar, and then select the icon below the Teacher Tools heading. Teacher Tools appears.
2. Click the class that you want to review in the Gradebook side menu.
3. Click the Assessments tab.
Creating reports
You can use Teacher Tools to quickly produce reports that demonstrate student or class performance. Create a report to help you analyze assessment results, or to aid discussions with students and parents.
4. Click an assessment. The assessment details appear in the lower pane of the Assessments tab.
5. Click Performance to see a graphical representation of student achievement per question.
6. Click Results to see a list of your students’ averages.
7. Click Questions to review the responses to each question and change whether you accept them as correct.
To generate a report
1. In Teacher Tools, click the report you want to generate from the Reports side menu. Use Performance reports to summarize individual performance. Use Comparison reports to compare classes or students across the report type.
2. Click a report type.
Report type Description
Assessment summary
Educational standards
Cognitive levels
Question performance
Performance summary
Shows student or class performance across assessments
Shows student or class performance across the questions you’ve tagged with education standards
Shows student or class performance across the questions you’ve tagged with cognitive levels such as Bloom’s
Shows how each student or class responded to each question in an assessment
Shows a collection of charts, including comparisons related to custom question tags and student tags
3. Use the drop-down menus to select the parameters for the report.
4. Click Preview to view the report or Create PDF to generate a PDF that you can share or print.
Click to watch a video tour of the Teacher Tools Gradebook.
Reviewing SMART Response assessment results
Exporting results
You can use Teacher Tools to export assessment results to other gradebook formats.
To export results from Teacher Tools
1. Select File > Export from the Teacher Tools menu.
2. Select the class with the results you want to export, and then click Next .
The Export dialog box appears.
3. Select the By student option if you want to export results for your entire class (the default selection) or for an individual student.
OR
Select the By assessment option if you want to export the results of a class assessment or all assessments the class has completed.
OR
Select the To another gradebook format option if you want to export the results to another gradebook format.
You must import the resulting CSV file into your gradebook to view it.
4. Click Next .
5. Select the export format, and then click Next . A Save As dialog box appears.
6. Browse to a folder, type a name for the file, and then click
Save . The results export and open in your computer’s default file viewer.
It’s your turn to practice
Use this quick reference guide to help you complete the following activities.
Explore the Teacher Tools Gradebook
1. Open your Teacher Tools Gradebook. If you don’t have your own assessment results to work with, save this
Gradebook Sample File to your desktop, un-zip it, and then double-click to open it.
2. Click one of the classes listed in the Gradebook side menu. Explore the Home , Students and
Assessments tabs.
3. In the Assessments tab, click a heading (such as Class
Average ) to sort the assessment data.
4. Click an assessment. Explore the Performance , Results and Questions tabs in the lower pane.
Create a report
1. Click Student Comparison in the Reports side menu.
The Student Comparison area appears.
2. Click the Assessment summary report type.
3. Adjust the report parameters so that one class, all students and one assessment are selected.
4. Click Preview to view the report. In what circumstances would this report be valuable for you?
5. Click Student Performance in the Reports side menu.
Select the same report type and parameters as before.
6. Click Preview . Compare the two reports. When would a
Student Performance report be valuable?
Export results
1. Click File > Export , and then select a class.
2. Click By assessment , and then click Next . Note the available export formats.
3. Click Back .
4. Click To a different gradebook file , and then click
Next . Compare the format options. Which export options best suit your needs?
Reviewing SMART Response assessment results
Need more help? Try these related Help topics:
• Creating a class list in
Teacher Tools
• Editing student information
• Reviewing assessment results
• Flagging results
• Exporting results
• Importing assessment results
To access Help for the SMART Response system, open
SMART Notebook software and select
Help > SMART Response Help .
Other quick reference guides in this series include the following:
• Setting up the SMART Response system
• Getting started with SMART Response LE
• Creating SMART Response assessments
• Delivering SMART Response assessments
• Answering questions with the SMART Response XE interactive response system
• Using Acuity Un Wired ™ for SMART Response
• Using the SMART Response connector for Galileo
SMART offers an extensive collection of professional development opportunities to suit your needs and budget, including certification programs and public, private or distance education events. For more information, go to smarttech.com/training or contact us .
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