Appendix: Question Specific Statistics

Based on the question type it represents, the question_statistics document may include extra metrics. You can find these metrics below.

Multiple Choice

{
  // Number of students who have picked any choice.
  "responses": 4,

  "answers": [
    {
      // Unique ID of this answer.
      "id": "3866",

       // The readable answer text.
      "text": "Red",

       // Number of students who picked this answer.
      "responses": 3,

       // Whether this answer is a correct one.
      "correct": true
    },

    // An incorrect choice:
    {
      "id": "2040",
      "text": "Green",
      "correct": false,
      "responses": 1
    },

    // The "No Answer" - students who didn't make any choice:
    {
      "id": "none",
      "text": "No Answer",
      "responses": 2,
      "correct": false
    }
  ],

  // Number of students who have answered this question.
  "answered_student_count": 0,

  // Number of students who rank in the top bracket (the top 27%)
  // among the submitters which have also answered this question.
  "top_student_count": 0,

  // Number of students who rank in the middle bracket (the middle 46%)
  // among the submitters which have also answered this question.
  "middle_student_count": 0,

  // Number of students who rank in the bottom bracket (the bottom 27%)
  // among the submitters which have also answered this question
  "bottom_student_count": 0,

  // Number of students who have answered this question correctly.
  "correct_student_count": 0,

  // Number of students who have answered this question incorrectly.
  "incorrect_student_count": 0,

  // Ratio of students who have answered this question correctly.
  "correct_student_ratio": 0,

  // Ratio of students who have answered this question incorrectly.
  "incorrect_student_ratio": 0,

  // Number of students who rank in the top bracket (the top 27%) among
  // the submitters which have also provided a correct answer to this question.
  "correct_top_student_count": 0,

  // Number of students who rank in the middle bracket (the middle 46%) among
  // the submitters which have also provided a correct answer to this question.
  "correct_middle_student_count": 0,

  // Number of students who rank in the bottom bracket (the bottom 27%) among
  // the submitters which have also provided a correct answer to this question.
  "correct_bottom_student_count": 0,

  // Variance of *all* the scores.
  "variance": 0,

  // Standard deviation of *all* the scores.
  "stdev": 0,

  // Denotes the ratio of students who have answered this question correctly,
  // which should give an indication of how difficult the question is.
  "difficulty_index": 0,

  // The reliability, or internal consistency, coefficient of all the scores
  // as measured by the Cronbach's alpha algorithm. Value ranges between 0 and
  // 1.
  //
  // Note: This metric becomes available only in quizzes with more than fifteen
  // submissions.
  "alpha": null,

  // A point biserial correlation coefficient for each of the question's
  // answers. This metric helps measure the efficiency of an individual
  // question: the calculation looks at the difference between high-scorers
  // who chose this answer and low-scorers who also chose this answer.
  //
  // See the reference above for a description of each field.
  "point_biserials": [
    {
      "answer_id": 3866,
      "point_biserial": null,
      "correct": true,
      "distractor": false
    },
    {
      "answer_id": 2040,
      "point_biserial": null,
      "correct": false,
      "distractor": true
    },
    {
      "answer_id": 7387,
      "point_biserial": null,
      "correct": false,
      "distractor": true
    },
    {
      "answer_id": 4082,
      "point_biserial": null,
      "correct": false,
      "distractor": true
    }
  ]
}

Fill in Multiple Blanks

{
  // Number of students who have filled at least one blank.
  "responses": 2,

  // Number of students who have filled every blank.
  "answered": 2,

  // Number of students who filled all blanks correctly.
  "correct": 1,

  // Number of students who filled one or more blanks correctly.
  "partially_correct": 0,

  // Number of students who didn't fill any blank correctly.
  "incorrect": 1,

  // Each entry in the answer set represents a blank and responses to
  // its pre-defined answers:
  "answer_sets": [
    {
      "id": "70dda5dfb8053dc6d1c492574bce9bfd", // md5sum of the blank
      "text": "color", // the blank_id
      "answers": [
        // Students who filled in this blank with this correct answer:
        {
          "id": "9711",
          "text": "Red",
          "responses": 3,
          "correct": true
        },
        // Students who filled in this blank with this other correct answer:
        {
          "id": "2700",
          "text": "Blue",
          "responses": 0,
          "correct": true
        },
        // Students who filled in this blank with something else:
        {
          "id": "other",
          "text": "Other",
          "responses": 1,
          "correct": false
        },
        // Students who left this blank empty:
        {
          "id": "none",
          "text": "No Answer",
          "responses": 1,
          "correct": false
        }
      ]
    }
  ]
}

Multiple Answers

{
  // Number of students who have picked any choice.
  "responses": 3,

  // Number of students who have picked all the right choices.
  "correct": 1,

  // Number of students who have picked at least one of the right choices,
  // but may have also picked a wrong one.
  "partially_correct": 2,

  "answers": [
    {
      // Unique ID of this answer choice.
      "id": "5514",

      // Displayable choice text.
      "text": "A",

      // Number of students who picked this choice.
      "responses": 3,

      // Whether this choice is part of the answer.
      "correct": true
    },
    // Here's the second part of the correct answer:
    {
      "id": "4261",
      "text": "B",
      "responses": 1,
      "correct": true
    },

    // And here's a distractor:
    {
      "id": "3322",
      "text": "C",
      "responses": 2,
      "correct": false
    },

    // "Missing" answers:
    //
    // This is an auto-generated answer to account for all students who
    // left this question unanswered.
    {
      "id": "none",
      "text": "No Answer",
      "responses": 0,
      "correct": false
    }
  ]
}

Multiple Dropdowns

Multiple Dropdown question statistics look just like the statistics for Fill In Multiple Blanks.

Essay

{
   // The number of students whose responses were graded by the teacher so
   // far.
   "graded": 5,

   // The number of students who got graded with a full score.
   "full_credit": 4,

   // Number of students who wrote any kind of answer.
   "resposes": 5,

   // A set of maps of scores and the number of students who received
   // each score.
   "point_distribution": [
     { "score": 0, "count": 1 },
     { "score": 1, "count": 1 },
     { "score": 3, "count": 3 }
   ]
}

Matching

{
  // Number of students who have matched at least one answer.
  "responses": 2,

  // Number of students who have matched all answers.
  "answered": 2,

  // Number of students who have matched all answers correctly with their
  // right-hand sides.
  "correct": 1,

  // Number of students who have matched one or more answers correctly
  // with their right-hand sides.
  "partially_correct": 0,

  // Number of students who have not matched any answer with their correct
  // right-hand side.
  "incorrect": 1,

  // Each entry in the answer set represents the left-hand side of the match
  // along with all the possible matches on the right-side
  "answer_sets": [
    {
      // id of the answer
      "id": "1",
      // the left-hand side of the match
      "text": "What does the color red look like?",
      // the available matches
      "answers": [
        // Students who chose this match for this answer set:
        {
          // match_id
          "id": "9711",
          // right-hand side of the match
          "text": "Red",
          "responses": 3,
          "correct": true
        },
        // Students who chose an incorrect match:
        {
          "id": "2700",
          "text": "Blue",
          "responses": 0,
          "correct": false
        },
        // Students who did not make any match:
        {
          "id": "none",
          "text": "No Answer",
          "responses": 1,
          "correct": false
        }
      ]
    }
  ]
}

File Upload

File Upload question statistics look just like the statistics for Essays.

Formula

Formula question statistics look just like the statistics for Essays.

Numerical

{
  // Number of students who have provided any kind of answer.
  "responses": 2,

  // Number of students who have provided a correct answer.
  "correct": 1,

  // Number of students who have provided a correct answer and received full
  // credit or higher.
  "full_credit": 2,

  // Number of students who have provided an answer which was not correct.
  "incorrect": 1,

  "answers": [
    {
      // Unique ID of this answer.
      "id": "9711",

      // This metric contains a formatted version of the correct answer
      // ready for display.
      "text": "15.00",

      // Number of students who provided this answer.
      "responses": 3,

      // Whether this answer is a correct one.
      "correct": true,

      // Lower and upper boundaries of the answer range. This is consistent
      // regardless of the answer type (e.g., exact vs range).
      //
      // In the case of exact answers, the range will be the exact value
      // minus plus the defined margin.
      "value": [ 13.5, 16.5 ],

      // Margin of error tolerance. This is always zero for range answers.
      "margin": 1.5
    },

    // "Other" answers:
    //
    // This is an auto-generated answer that will be present if any student
    // provides a number for an answer that is incorrect (doesn't map to
    // any of the pre-defined answers.)
    {
      "id": "other",
      "text": "Other",
      "responses": 0,
      "correct": false
    },

    // "Missing" answers:
    //
    // This is an auto-generated answer to account for all students who
    // left this question unanswered.
    {
      "id": "none",
      "text": "No Answer",
      "responses": 0,
      "correct": false
    }
  ]
}

Short Answer (aka Fill in The Blank)

{
  // Number of students who have written anything.
  "responses": 2,

  // Number of students who have written a correct answer.
  "correct": 2,

  "answers": [
    {
      // Unique ID of this answer.
      "id": "4684",

       // The readable answer text.
      "text": "Something",

       // Number of students who picked this answer.
      "responses": 3,

       // Whether this answer is a correct one.
      "correct": true
    },

    // Another correct answer:
    {
      "id": "1797",
      "text": "Very cool.",
      "responses": 0,
      "correct": true
    },

    // "Other" answers:
    //
    // This is an auto-generated answer that will be present if any student
    // does write an answer, but is incorrect.
    {
      "id": "other",
      "text": "Other",
      "responses": 0,
      "correct": false
    },

    // "Missing" answers:
    //
    // This is an auto-generated answer to account for all students who
    // left this question unanswered.
    {
      "id": "none",
      "text": "No Answer",
      "responses": 0,
      "correct": false
    }
  ]
}

True/False

True/False question statistics look just like the statistics for Multiple-Choice.