Viewing and Understanding Assessment Results

After scanning, PaperScorer gives you several ways to view and analyse the results. This article walks through each report view, what the data means, and how to use it to inform your instruction.

Getting to Your Results

1. From the dashboard, click Assessments.
2. Find and click the assessment you want to review.
3. You’ll land on the assessment’s main page with several tabs:
   • Questions — question-by-question item analysis
   • Students — roster view with each student’s score
   • Results — class-level overview and analytics (the Student Response detail grid is a report within Results, not a separate tab)
   • Syncs — history of LMS sync runs (if you’ve synced this assessment)

The Students Tab

The Students tab is a roster view showing one row per student with a scanned sheet.

Columns shown:

• Student name and avatar
• Student identifier (ID)
• Raw score (e.g. 18/20)
• Percentage (e.g. 90%)
• Performance band (color-coded label)
• Submission date
• Assessment version (if multiple versions exist)

What you can do here:

• Click a student to open their individual result.
• Filter by class, date range, performance band, tags, or standards.
• Switch a student’s assessment version.
• Access per-student actions through the row’s action menu.

The Results Tab (Overview)

The Results tab gives you an at-a-glance view of how the class performed.

What it shows:

• Total students assessed and total questions
• Average score across all students
• Performance band distribution — a chart showing how many students fell into each band (e.g. “5 Standard Exceeded, 12 Standard Met, 3 Standard Nearly Met, 2 Standard Not Yet Met”)
• Mean, median, and mode of scores
• Links to Question Analysis and Student Response reports

How to use it:

• Quick health check: was the assessment too easy, too hard, or appropriately calibrated?
• Identify outliers: who in the “Below” band may need intervention?
• Track growth over time: compare performance-band distributions across multiple assessments.

The Questions Tab (Item Analysis)

Item analysis tells you which questions students struggled with — one of the most valuable reports for improving instruction.

What it shows:

• Each question in the assessment, one row per question
• % correct — the percentage of students who got the question right
• Most common wrong answer — which distractor caught the most students
• Answer distribution — a breakdown of how many students picked each choice
• Standards alignment (if standards are attached to the question)

How to use it:

• Find unclear questions: if 80%+ of students missed a question, it may be worded poorly or cover content you didn’t teach clearly.
• Identify misconceptions: if wrong answers cluster around one distractor, that’s a sign of a specific misunderstanding worth re-teaching.
• Group for intervention: find the cohort that missed a specific question and use them as a small-group review session.

The Responses View

Reached from the Results area, the Responses view is the most detailed report — every student, every question, every answer.

What it shows:

• A data grid with one row per student
• Columns for every question in the assessment
• Each cell shows the student’s recorded answer (and the correct answer if enabled)
• Colored cells indicate correct vs incorrect

How to use it:

• Spot patterns across the class: rows with many errors point to struggling students; columns with many errors point to problem questions.
• Review for manual corrections: if a student’s answer was misread, you can correct it here. See Changing a Question Answer.
• Export to CSV for use in your own spreadsheets or LMS gradebook.

Individual Student Results

Click any student’s name (in any tab) to open their individual result page.

What you’ll see:

• Student name, ID, and submission date
• Total score and percentage (prominent at the top)
• Performance band label with colour
• A question-by-question breakdown showing the question, their answer, the correct answer, and points earned
• Scanned sheet image — click to view the actual scanned document

What you can do here:

• Manually correct a response — in the grading view, click an answer to change it (see Changing a Question Answer).
• Override a score — in the grading view, set a custom score for a specific question (especially useful for written-response questions).
• Copy a student review link to share results with the student or their parent (see Student Review Links).

Understanding Performance Bands

Performance bands categorise student scores into meaningful tiers. The default band in PaperScorer typically looks like:

You can create custom performance bands for specific assessments (e.g. for a pre-test where “Meets” might start at 50%) — this is a Teacher Pro feature. See Changing an Assessment Performance Band.

Filtering Results

Every report view supports filtering so you can focus on specific subsets of students:

• By class — show only students from one or more classes.
• By date range — show only assessments scanned in a specific window.
• By performance band — show only students in “Below” or “Exceeds.”
• By tags — show only students or questions with specific tags.
• By standards — show only questions aligned to specific educational standards (Teacher Pro).

Filters apply to the current view only and don’t change your underlying data.

Sharing Results With Students and Parents

You have several options for getting results to students and parents:

• Student review links — per-student URLs that show their results without requiring an account. See Student Review Links.
• LMS sync — push grades back to Google Classroom or (for enterprise customers) Canvas / Brightspace.
• Printed reports — print per-student score reports from the assessment’s print options.
• CSV export — export the full results for your own gradebook.

Related Articles

• Changing a Question Answer
• Student Review Links
• Changing an Assessment Performance Band
• Managing Multiple Versions