Cognitive Diagnostic Report for Students
The report for the Cognitive Diagnostic assessment provides students with personalized insights into their learning progress, proficiency development, and skill mastery over time. The report is designed to help students better understand their strengths, identify areas for improvement, and track growth across multiple assessment administrations.
Overview
This report combines overall proficiency measures with detailed skill-level results to support your learning. You can explore how your performance evolves over time and identify specific concepts that may require additional practice.
The report includes:
- Overall proficiency scores and proficiency levels
- Progress tracking across administrations
- Skill mastery results by learning objective
- Performance summaries
- Visualizations of mastery over time
- Guidance for interpreting results and next steps
Key Features
Dashboard
The Dashboard provides an overview of your current performance and progress across administrations. It includes your current proficiency level, proficiency score, improvement over time, and number of completed administrations. Visualizations display overall proficiency trends and changes in skill mastery across learning objectives, helping monitor your development throughout the course.
Administrations
This section provides detailed results for a selected assessment administration. You can review your total scores, number of correct answers, completion time, and learning objective performance. Learning objective tables summarize percent correct and proficiency categories for each assessed skill, helping identify your specific strengths and areas that may need additional attention.
Help Center
The Help Center explains how to interpret your proficiency scores and skill mastery results. It provides guidance on understanding your learning progress, interpreting trends over time, and using the report to support your future studying and practice. It contains a Report Support & Feedback section to submit questions, report technical issues, or provide feedback about the report experience.
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How It Works?
By default, the report generates results using all available administrations.
You can:
- Review progress across multiple administrations
- Explore skill mastery by learning objective
- View detailed results for individual administrations
- Monitor proficiency growth over time
You can download a PDF version of your report at any time. The downloaded report will reflect the selected options and settings.
Instruments:
This report works with cognitive diagnostic assessments available in LASSO.
FAQ
The proficiency score is a measure of your overall understanding across all assessed skills. It is calculated using a statistical model that estimates your performance relative to other students in the LASSO dataset.
Higher proficiency scores generally indicate stronger overall understanding.
Proficiency measures overall performance across all skills as a continuous score.
Skill mastery focuses on individual learning objectives and indicates whether you have demonstrated sufficient understanding of a specific skill.
A skill is considered mastered when your responses demonstrate sufficient understanding of that learning objective based on the assessment model.
Mastery is shown as either mastered or not yet mastered.
Proficiency reflects overall performance across all learning objectives. Improvement in several areas can increase the proficiency score even if some individual skills are still developing.
A dash indicates that the skill was not assessed during that administration or there was not enough information to determine mastery for that learning objective.
Improvement shows the change in your proficiency score across administrations. Positive values indicate growth in overall understanding over time.
Small decreases can occur naturally as assessments vary in difficulty or when new concepts are introduced. Temporary decreases do not necessarily mean overall learning loss.
It is more useful to focus on long-term trends rather than individual score changes.
Proficiency categories summarize overall performance levels, such as Approaching Proficiency or Proficient. These categories provide an easier way to interpret proficiency scores.
Yes. The report allows you to explore results from all available administrations to track your progress over time.
Use the Report Support & Feedback section to report technical problems, confusing results, visualization issues, or questions about the report. Providing detailed information helps the support team investigate the issue more effectively.