Analyze the results
What the exam says about the cohort, and what it says about each question.
After an exam, Evalmee shows the minimum grade, the average grade and the maximum grade of the paper, then, question by question, the number of participants who answered and the success rate. Grades export to Excel, graded submissions to PDF, and the REST API returns them participant by participant.
Overall statistics, then question by question
The Statistics screen gives the general shape of the exam first, then the detail of each question. It is designed to be projected in front of participants, in the room, when the results are given back.
- Overall statistics: minimum, average and maximum grade
- Question by question: number of respondents and success rate
- On clicking a question: the share obtained by each choice, with the answer shown
- Projectable in the room: the screen is meant to be shown to the group
Four exports, two uses
The grades go out to Excel to be reprocessed, the submissions go out to PDF to be archived or printed. Both start from the same button, in the Grades tab.
- Simple grades: an .xlsx file downloaded immediately
- Detailed grades: an .xlsx sent by email, with the weightings and the raw results question by question
- Archive of submissions: a .zip archive containing one PDF per participant
- All submissions: a single PDF, to print everything at once
What statistics does Evalmee show after an exam?
Evalmee shows three overall indicators (minimum, average, maximum) and two indicators per question (number of respondents, success rate). Opening a question shows the share obtained by each choice offered, with the answer displayed.
This is deliberately short. The screen answers the two questions a teacher asks after an exam: did the group succeed, and which questions caused trouble. The rest is read submission by submission.
The spread of answers across choices is the most useful indicator for revising a paper. A correct answer chosen by a fifth of the group and a distractorDistractorAn incorrect option in a multiple-choice question. A good distractor is plausible to anyone who has not understood and clearly ruled out by anyone who has: a distractor nobody ever chooses carries no information and reduces the question to a narrower choice. chosen by three fifths do not tell the same story depending on whether the question was ambiguous or the concept had not been learned.
| Level of reading | What is shown | Where to find it |
|---|---|---|
| Exam | Minimum grade, average grade, maximum grade | Statistics screen, Overall statistics section |
| Question | Number of participants who answered, success rate | Statistics screen, Question by question section |
| Choices of a question | Share obtained by each choice, with the answer shown | Statistics screen, on clicking a question |
| Submission | Key figures of the submission, event report of the session during the exam, all the answers | Grades tab, on clicking a participant |
| Assessment criterion | Grade per criterion, in addition to the overall grade | The participant's submission, if criteria-based mode is on |
Evalmee does not calculate a difficulty indexDifficulty indexThe proportion of candidates answering an item correctly, between zero and one. An index of 0.90 flags a question almost everyone gets right, and therefore one that carries little information; values close to 0.5 maximise a question's ability to separate levels of attainment., a discrimination indexDiscrimination indexA measure of a question's ability to tell strong candidates from weak ones, computed as the gap in success rates between the highest and the lowest overall scorers. An index of zero or below flags a defective item: badly worded, or with a wrong answer key. or item analysisItem analysisStatistical examination of the questions in a test after it has been sat: how many candidates got each item right, which ones did, and how that compares with their overall score. It reveals ambiguous questions, useless questions and answer-key errors before they are repeated.. These psychometric indicators are not part of the product: if your institution uses them, the detailed export provides the raw results question by question needed to calculate them. The situations where another platform suits you better than Evalmee, and which one to look at then, are listed in the comparison of online exam platforms.
How do you export and share the results?
Four exports start from the Grades tab: two Excel files for the grades, two files for the graded submissions. The grades can also be mail merged to participants from the application, with a message you write.
The Detailed grades export is the one used to reprocess the results. It contains the question weightings, the raw results question by question and ready-made Excel formulas. It is sent by email, to the address of your choice: you can therefore send it straight to the colleague who consolidates the grades. To weight two or three assessments by hand before they go in, the weighted grade calculator does the arithmetic in the browser.
| Export | Format | Content | Delivery |
|---|---|---|---|
| Simple grades | .xlsx | Grades and main details of the participants | Immediate download |
| Detailed grades | .xlsx | Question weightings, raw results question by question, formulas for reprocessing | Sent by email, to the address of your choice |
| Archive of submissions | .zip | One PDF file per participant | Download |
| All submissions | Every graded submission in a single document | Download |
What does a participant see when you share their submission?
The participant sees the key figures of their submission and all their answers with the grading. They never see the event report recorded during the exam, which stays reserved for the examiner.
The three display settings for results
- Grade visible: the participant sees their grade
- Grading visible: the participant sees their graded submission once the exam is over, and the detail of points per question if the grade is visible
- Grading after each question: the answer is shown before moving on to the next one, for formative examsFormative assessmentAn assessment carried out during learning, whose function is to inform learner and teacher about what is currently being acquired. Its useful output is the feedback, not the mark: it is frequent, low-stakes, and serves to correct course while there is still time to do so.
The first two settings are independent, which lets you show a graded submission without displaying points while the scoring is not settled.
Can the scoring be corrected afterwards?
Yes. A correct answer entered wrongly, an ambiguous question to neutralize or a weighting to revisit can be corrected after the exam, and Evalmee recalculates every grade in the exam accordingly.
Two paths lead to the same result. From the Paper tab, the Edit button lets you revisit the correct choices, the weightings, the grading comment and the tags, then run Recalculate grades. From the settings, changing the scoring of choice questions ends with Save and recalculate grades.
A curve that moves the whole class rather than one question — added points, a square-root curve, a bell curve — is prepared alongside, in the grade curve calculator, then carried back into the scoring.
It is the least spectacular feature on this page and often the most useful: it saves reorganizing an exam because one question out of forty was badly worded.
How do you get the results into your own tools?
The Evalmee public API, in version 2, exposes the results of an exam and the participants' attempts in JSON. Authentication uses OAuth 2.0, client credentials flow, with a token valid for 24 hours.
The two resources useful for reporting are the results of an exam and the attempts. An attempt carries its status, its grade, its scoring scheme, its start and end timestamps, and a link to the submission. In criteria-based mode, the grades per criterion come with the result.
One point to know before designing your integration: the API offers no webhook, retrieval is done by call. It does not return aggregates either: it returns grades, and the averages are calculated on your side.
What the API returns
- Results of an exam: grade, scoring scheme, status, grading mode, grades per criterion
- Attempts: status, grade, start and end, link to the submission, session concerned
- Exams, sessions, participants and assessment criteria, read and write
- Paginated responses in JSON, timestamps in ISO 8601 format
Frequently asked questions
The minimum grade, the average grade and the maximum grade of the exam, then, question by question, the number of participants who answered and the success rate. Opening a question shows the share obtained by each choice.
No. These psychometric indicators are not part of the product, no more than the difficulty index. The detailed Excel export provides the weightings and the raw results question by question, which lets you calculate them in your own tool.
Four exports start from the Grades tab: Simple grades, an Excel file downloaded immediately; Detailed grades, an Excel file sent by email; Archive of submissions, an archive containing one PDF per participant; All submissions, a single PDF.
Yes, if you allow it. Two separate settings exist, grade visible and grading visible, which lets you share a graded submission without showing the points. The event report of the exam is never visible to the participant.
Yes. The Evalmee public API, in version 2, returns the results of an exam and the participants' attempts in JSON, grades per criterion included. Authentication uses OAuth 2.0, client credentials flow. There is no webhook.
Used by
- Teachers
- Quality managers
- Academic directors
- Learning design teams