- Knowledge Base
- TAO Terminology Explained Part 3: Scoring Assessments
- Terms Relating to Scoring Assessments
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TAO Quickstart Guide
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How to Create a Test in TAO
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Making the Most of the Asset Manager
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Working With Metadata in TAO
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Configuring Interactions: What Possibilities do You Have?
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Randomization in Items and Tests
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All You Need to Know About Test-Takers
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All About Deliveries
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Setting up LTI
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Proctoring Assessments in TAO
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How Does Scoring Work in TAO?
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Interpreting Results Tables in TAO
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Writing Your Own Scoring Rules for Your Assessments: An Example
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Using the Advanced Search
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Best Practices for Working with Multiple Users in a Small-scale Authoring Scenario Part 1: Set-up
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Best Practices for Working with Multiple Users in a Small-scale Authoring Scenario Part 2: Workflow
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Thinking About Test Questions (and Choosing Interactions) According to Task Type: Part 1
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Thinking About Test Questions (and Choosing Interactions) According to Task Type: Part 2
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Thinking About Test Questions (and Choosing Interactions) According to Task Type: Part 3
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Thinking About Test Questions (and Choosing Interactions) According to Task Type: Part 4
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Thinking About Test Questions (and Choosing Interactions) According to Task Type: Part 5
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Optimizing Pictures
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All About Extensions
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Stylesheets in Assessment Items
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TAO for RTL Languages
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TAO Terminology Explained Part 1: TAO Architecture
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TAO Terminology Explained Part 2: Creating and Delivering Assessments
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TAO Terminology Explained Part 3: Scoring Assessments
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Access Control
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History Management
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Item Layouts
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Tests with Timers
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Math Expressions
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Testing Language Skills
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Test-taker Tools: Accessibility
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Test-taker Tools: Text-to-speech
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Test-taker Tools: Calculators
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Math Entry Interaction
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Video Tutorial: Creating an Item with a Choice Interaction
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Video Tutorial: Creating an Item with an Order Interaction
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Video Tutorial: Creating an Item with an Associate Interaction
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Video Tutorial: Creating an Item with a Match Interaction
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Video Tutorial: Creating an Item with a Hot-text Interaction
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Video Tutorial: Creating an Item with a Gap Match Interaction
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Video Tutorial: Creating an Item with a Slider Interaction
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Video Tutorial: Creating an Item with an Extended Text Interaction
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Video Tutorial: Creating an Item with a File Upload Interaction
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Video Tutorial: Creating an Item with an Inline Choice or a Text Entry Interaction
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Video Tutorial: Creating an Item with a Media Interaction
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Video Tutorial: Creating an Item with a Graphic Associate Interaction
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Video Tutorial: Creating an Item with a Select Point Interaction
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TAO Ignite: Look and Feel
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How does scoring work in TAO? (II)
Concept: Outcome
The TAO Glossary defines an Outcome as "The result of an Assessment Test or Item. These are represented by one or more Outcome Variables".
The Outcomes which end users of TAO are generally interested in are the results, or scores, of a test and the items in it. In this sense, the use of the term Outcome is slightly opaque. The term has a significantly wider application than that of results or scores, however: Outcomes in TAO incorporate all of the information which is computed during processing.
Item Outcome
The TAO Glossary defines an Item Outcome as "One of a list of values which are computed during Response Processing, based on a test-taker’s response to an item".
As well as the value of the Item Outcome Variable, which, as discussed above, is computed during Response Processing, it may include more complex information used to compute scores later, depending on the scoring method which has been configured.
Test Outcome
The TAO Glossary defines a Test Outcome as "One of a list of values which represent the results of an Assessment Test. Values are computed during Outcome Processing".
The Test Outcomes of an assessment are represented in the Results tables, using the label Test Variables (just as a reminder: Test Variables is short for Test Outcome Variables). They include the information relating to the test as a whole (rather than the individual items). Depending on the Outcome Processing rules used and how the test has been configured, this can include information such as a final test score, scores for any individual categories within the test, and information on whether the test-taker has passed or failed the assessment.