Question Analytics

Question analytics shows how each question in an assessment performed. Start by comparing questions to find the ones that need attention. Then open a single question to see how students answered it and, for rubric-graded questions, the mistakes they had in common. The examples on this page use the Cell structure quiz from Introduction to Biology, taken by 48 students.

Compare Questions

In the teacher dashboard, select the assessment. The Analytics section below the submissions includes Question Data, a chart with one bar per question.

Question Data card set to Average Score, with Q4 at 61.4 percent colored Hard at the top and Q3 at 93.1 percent colored Easy at the bottom.

Average Score sorts the questions from lowest to highest score.

Choose what the bars show from the dropdown. Select a question’s bar or label to open that question in a new tab.

Option	What each bar shows
Average Score	The class’s average on the question, colored by difficulty.
Regrade Requests	Requests students sent, split into accepted, open, and rejected.
Tutor Messages	Messages students sent the Socratic Tutor about the question.
Tutor Effectiveness	How students who used the tutor did compared with students who didn’t.
Discrimination Index	Whether students who did well overall also did well on this question.

Average scores follow the assessment’s How should final grades be calculated? setting. With Maximum Attempt Score, for example, each student’s best attempt counts. Turn on Score Gain above the charts to compare first and final attempts.

Difficulty
Discrimination Index
Tutor Effectiveness

Easy, Medium, and Hard compare each question with the others in the same assessment. Roughly the lowest-scoring quarter of questions is Hard, the highest-scoring quarter is Easy, and the rest are Medium.The legend shows the cutoffs. A question marked Hard in an easy quiz might still have a high average.

The discrimination index compares how students scored on one question with how they scored on the rest of the assessment. It ranges from −1 to 1.

Question Data card set to Discrimination Index, with Q4 at 0.41 colored Good, Q3 at 0.12 colored Weak, and Q6 at −0.05 colored Low.

Q6 is Low: students who did well overall did worse on it.

Color	Value	What it suggests
Good	0.20 or above	Strong students also did well here.
Weak	0.00 to under 0.20	The question says little about overall performance.
Low	Below 0.00	Strong students did worse here than weaker ones.

A Low question often has a wrong answer key or unclear wording. Uflo colors bars Good or Low only once 30 students are graded. Until then, every bar shows as Weak.

Review One Question

Select a question’s bar in Question Data, or open the assessment and go to the question. Then select Analytics in the panel beside the question. Only teachers see this tab.

Assessment page with the Analytics tab selected in the side panel and question 4 on the right. The Question Overview table ranks its average score sixth of six.

The Analytics tab sits next to Socratic Tutor and Solution.

Question Overview

The table at the top of the tab summarizes the question. Rank places it among the assessment’s questions, highest value first. For example, #6 of 6 on Average Score means the question had the lowest average.

Question 4 has the lowest average and the most regrade requests.

Metric	What it shows
Average Score	The class’s average, as a percentage of the question’s points.
Discrimination Index	The discrimination index, with the number of students behind it.
Avg Time Spent	Average time each student spent on the question.
Regrade Requests	Regrade requests. Rubric-graded questions only.
Tutor Messages Sent	Messages students sent the Socratic Tutor about this question.
Tutor Usage	The share of students who messaged the tutor about it.

Ranks for Average Score and Discrimination Index turn green in the top third and red in the bottom third. Regrade Requests works the other way: many requests turn red.

Charts

The charts below the table depend on how the question is graded. Uflo uses one attempt per student: the highest-scoring one with Maximum Attempt Score grading, and the most recent one otherwise.

Graded Instantly
Graded by Rubric

Multiple choice, multiple correct choices, number, and math questions show a Response Breakdown. Each bar is one answer, and the correct answer is green. No response counts students who left it blank.

Response Breakdown for question 1 with answer B in green at 36 students and answer A at 8 students.

The correct answer, B, is green. Most students who missed it chose A.

Number responses within the question’s margin of error share a bar.
A math response shows green only when its text matches the answer key. An equivalent form, such as 2x + 2 for 2(x + 1), is graded correct but isn’t green.
Fill-in-the-blank questions with more than one blank show a Correct Response Rate instead, with one bar per blank. Select a blank to see every answer given for it.

Select a bar in Score Distribution or Response Breakdown to list the students behind it, with their score and number of attempts. Select a student to open their latest submission.

Find Patterns in Responses

For rubric-graded questions, Uflo can group the mistakes students made into patterns. When it has analyzed the class’s graded responses, the patterns appear under Response Summaries, below the charts. Each pattern sits under the rubric criterion where students lost points. Students who earned full marks on every attempt aren’t included, and neither are very short responses.

Response Summaries for question 4 with an Insights card and the Calculates the ratio correctly criterion, whose expanded Calc Error pattern affects 12 students.

Each pattern shows its type, how many students it affects, and how many fixed it.

Select a criterion card’s header, or its bar in Per-Rubric Breakdown, to see that criterion’s pattern breakdown and score distribution.

Pattern Types

Label	What students did
Misconception	Showed a wrong idea, such as thinking larger cells exchange materials faster.
Incomplete	Left out required content or answered too vaguely to earn the points.
Calc Error	Understood the concept but made a calculation mistake.

Select a pattern to read its description. Select its students count to list the students in it.

Resolution

Uflo compares each student’s lowest-scoring attempt with their highest-scoring one. Each student in a pattern gets a status, and the small bar on the pattern row shows the mix.

Student list for the Used one face instead of six pattern, with statuses Resolved, Partial, Still Stuck, and Single Attempt.

The Status column shows whether each student fixed the mistake in their highest-scoring attempt.

Status	Meaning
Resolved	The mistake is gone from their highest-scoring attempt.
Partial	Part of the mistake remains in their highest-scoring attempt.
Still Stuck	The same mistake remains in their highest-scoring attempt.
Single Attempt	The student made one attempt, or scored the same on every attempt.

Patterns with many students still stuck are usually the best place to start. Select a student to open their submission and read the response yourself.

Insights

The Insights card suggests likely causes behind the patterns and what you could do in class. It gives more weight to mistakes students haven’t fixed. AI writes these suggestions, so read a few responses behind a pattern before you change your teaching or the rubric.

What Each Path Supports

Scores, difficulty, and the discrimination index work for every assessment, including imported paper and LMS scores. Some data needs more:

Response Breakdown and Response Summaries need typed responses. Scanned paper assessments save each response as a page of the scan, so they don’t get either.
Avg Time Spent needs students to answer in Uflo.
Tutor Messages, Tutor Usage, and Tutor Effectiveness need students to use the Socratic Tutor on the question.
Score Gain and pattern resolution need more than one attempt in Uflo.

Common Questions

Why don't I see the Analytics tab?

Question groups don’t have one. Open one of the questions inside the group. The tab is also hidden when you switch to student view.

Why doesn't a question have Response Summaries?

Response Summaries cover only written, drawing, and image questions worth points, and not scanned paper responses. They also need graded responses with mistakes to group, so a question most students answered fully may have none.

Why does a rank say N/A?

Every question in the assessment has zero for that metric. For example, Tutor Messages Sent shows N/A until a student messages the tutor about any question.

Getting Started

Courses

Build an Assessment

Collect and Grade Responses

Review Assessment Results

Compare Questions