Creating Assessments
What kind of assessments can I create with Akindi?
Akindi has Bubble Sheets for 50 and 100 question multiple choice (A
through E or A through E and F through K) questions with single or
multi-bubble answers, and grades them right / wrong with variable
weights for each question. Here are some example Bubble Sheets:
For more, see our help center articles on
Assessments and Answer Keys.
How can I create and grade an assessment in Akindi?
We'll guide you through that process once you click the 'Create
Assessment' button in the top right corner of the screen. You will be
asked to:
- Choose a course and enter an assessment name
- Choose and print a Bubble Sheet template for your assessment
Fill out one of the Bubble Sheets with the Answer Key and bubble in
the student ID 0000 to indicate that. Add the Answer Key to
the completed answer sheets and scan them into a single PDF file (or
multiple files depending on class size). Upload the PDF file to
Akindi and we'll instantaneously process and grade your assessment.
For a class of 30 students, processing shouldn't take longer than 1
minute. Your results are ready to review and export.
Ready to get started?
Sign up and create an assessment now!
For more, see our help center articles on
Assessments and Answer Keys.
Can I reuse an assessment Bubble Sheet for multiple assessments?
Yes you can, however, you wouldn't be able to scan that same file using
email uploading. You will need to upload the scanned sheets through
your dashboard and ensure the 'Force upload' option is checked.
For more, see our help center articles on
Assessments and Answer Keys.
Can I customize Bubble Sheet templates?
You can customize the text in the header of Bubble Sheet templates. We
also offer fully customized Bubble Sheets for a fee. If you don't see a
template you need available in the list of current templates let us
know. We continuously add new templates based on your feedback.
Can I create multiple versions of an assessment?
Scanning Sheets
What type of scanners can I use with Akindi?
You can use any scanner with an automatic document feeder to scan your
answer sheets.
For more, see our help center articles on
Scanning Sheets.
Can I use my phone camera to create the assessment PDF?
No. At the moment we don't support PDFs created with phone cameras
or other non-flatbed scanners.
For more, see our help center articles on
Scanning Sheets.
What are the recommended scanners settings to use with Akindi Bubble Sheets?
Akindi is versatile and accepts the default settings on all common
scanners. If you are scanning large batches of responses, though, you may
find it helpful to reduce the size of the PDF files by scanning in grey
scale at a resolution of 100 DPI.
Most importantly, though, all four black corner squares must be
clearly visible in the scanned PDF, and the QR code must not be
damaged.
For more, see our help center articles on
Scanning Sheets.
Can I scan and upload my assessment using multiple PDF files?
Yes you can. Make sure that the first PDF file contains the Answer Key.
How do I indicate a sheet is an Answer Key?
Bubble in the student ID
0000.
For more, see our help center articles on
Answer Keys.
Why isn't Akindi recognizing my scanned sheets?
There are several reasons why Akindi might have trouble recognizing your scanned sheets.
- The 4 corner squares on the answer sheets aren't visible in your scanned file.
- The QR code has been tampered with by the student or its not visible in the scan.
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Your scanner could have distorted the image scanned because of a
paper feed malfunction. Check the scanned PDF to see if that is the
case, and rescan if necessary.
For more, see our help center articles on
Scanning Sheets.
Assessment Data
How can I change my Answer Key?
If you've already uploaded an assessment, go to the results table and
you'll find a top row with your Answer Key. You can click on the table
to make the necessary changes. Make sure to click "Save Changes" to
save your changes once you're done.
How can I export my assessment data?
Click the 'Options' menu on the right side of the assessment's results
page and choose one of the export to CSV options.
For more, see our help center articles on
Exporting Assessment Results.
Can I print my assessment reports?
At the moment we don't have provide an easy way to do that. You'll
need to take a screen shot of the graph or just print the whole page.
Please use the chat button in the bottom right corner of this page
to let us know if this is a feature that you would find useful!
Can I provide my students with corrected assessment sheets?
Yes! Click the 'Options' menu on the top right side of the assessment's result page, then
sheets you can email or print and hand out to your students.
What is the "discriminatory score"?
Akindi uses the
point-biserial
correlation coefficient (rpb) to calculate a discriminatory score for
each question in your assessment, and for your assessment as a whole.
The discriminatory score shows the correlation between correctly
answering each question and performing well on the assessment as a
whole; in other words, it shows how well each question discriminates
between students who did well on the assessment and students who did
poorly.
Akindi considers questions with a discriminatory score above 0.20
to be well-constructed: high-performing students generally answer
them correctly, and low-performing students generally answer them
incorrectly. Give yourself a pat on the back for these questions:
they are probably doing a good job of accurately assessing your
students.
Questions with a discriminatory score between 0.00 and
0.20 are considered candidates for improvement: high and low
performing students answer correctly with approximately the same
frequency. It might be worth double checking these questions to see
whether they could be clarified, or ambiguity could be removed.
Questions with a discriminatory score below 0.00 are
considered problematic: the highest performing students are getting
them wrong and the lowest performing students are getting them right!
It is definitely worth reviewing these questions to see if they can
be clarified, or (more frequently) the Answer Key was entered
incorrectly (Akindi will even tell you which of the "incorrect"
answers were chosen most frequently).
The assessment's overall discriminatory score is the average score
of the questions in the assignment, excluding questions with a weight
of 0.
When calculating the discriminatory score, questions weights are not
considered except for zero-weighted questions which are not
considered when calculating the overall assessment discriminatory
score. More specifically, the per-question rpb is
calculated with respect to each student's overall test score assuming
each question has a weight of either 0 (if the question's actual
weight is 0) or 1 (if the question's actual weight is non-zero). The
overall score is the arithmetic mean of the per-question score,
excluding questions with a weight of zero.
For more, see our help center articles on
Discriminatory and Point Biserial Score.
Course Roster Management
How can I import my course roster?
To import a course roster, go to the course page and click the 'Course
Roster' tab. You can upload a CSV of the course roster by clicking the
'Import Roster' button. You will be guided through formatting your
roster and be given a preview of the changes that will be made. You can
also copy/paste the roster directly into the table just like a
spreadsheet.
For more, see our help center articles on
Course Roster Management.
What happens if I don't import a roster?
You can create an assessment and scan responses without a roster.
Akindi will automatically add the student IDs from the Bubble Sheets
to your class roster, albeit without associated names.
Importing a roster helps you add names to the student IDs.
My students don't have IDs. What should I do?
Akindi uses student ID numbers as the unique identifier for student
records. If your students don't have student IDs assigned by your
school you should assign each student a number that is unique to
them across all of your courses, and use prefilled Bubble Sheets
with their name and ID included to avoid mis-bubbled IDs.
We recommend assigning students IDs which are a combination of the
school year, semester, and period or course number to make sure they
are unique. For example, students in a first period (01)
course in the second semester (02) of 2015 (15)
might be assigned the IDs 15020101 through 15020135.
For more, see our help center articles on
Course Roster Management.
Why am I seeing a student show up in the wrong course?
Akindi assumes each student ID is unique across all courses. If you use
ID 21 for two different students in two different courses,
Akindi will use one of those names for all students with ID 21.
We recommend assigning students IDs which are a combination of the
school year, semester, and period or course number to make sure they
are unique. For example, students in a first period (01)
course in the second semester (02) of 2015 (15)
might be assigned the IDs 15020101 through 15020135.
For more, see our help center articles on
Course Roster Management.