From time to time our Waymaker customers are curious about how their students are doing across teaching terms and approach us about what data we have to show their students’ performance on assessments. In order to meet these needs, our research team has devised a standard design for delivering these data that will meet the majority of requests.

Why we share: commitment to openness

We are committed to supporting faculty to do their best, and we realize that it can be helpful to examine assessment data to better understand where to concentrate changes to teaching practices. Further, sharing these data is in direct alignment with one of our fundamental values, openness:

“We share openly, knowing that others will build upon and expand the impact of our work. We contribute resources, expertise and goodwill to the commons. We seek to learn and commit to share what we know.”

The template

Our research team has devised two formats for pulling data that is generated by Waymaker use: quiz level and question level. 

Quiz level is the simplest dataset Lumen can pull and is a record of all quiz scores broken out by course unit/module per deidentified student. We can customize this by the following factors:

  1. Semester (Would you like data for all semesters you’ve worked with Lumen? Only for a certain time frame?)
  2. Course (Are you hoping to analyze data from just your course or are you collaborating with other faculty who want to analyze data from all Lumen courses your university uses?)
  3. Unit/module (Are you only interested in a particular unit/module?)
  4. Type of assessment (Are you hoping to look at summative quizzes, formative quizzes, or show-what-you-know assessments?)

Question level is a more detailed record of quiz item scores associated with a course’s skill-level learning outcomes. We can customize this by the following factors:

  1. Semester (Would you like data for all semesters you’ve worked with Lumen? Only for a certain time frame?)
  2. Course (Are you hoping to analyze data from just your course or are you collaborating with other faculty who want to analyze data from all Lumen courses your university uses?)
  3. Unit/module (Are you only interested in a particular unit/module?)
  4. Type of assessment (Are you hoping to look at summative quizzes, formative quizzes, or show-what-you-know assessments?)

For examples of what these data pulls look like in spreadsheet form, have a look at this sample data template.

How to request a data pull

If you’re a current Waymaker customer and would find these data helpful, please reach out to your primary Lumen contact. If you are unsure, don’t hesitate to contact our excellent support team at support@lumenlearning.com who will connect you with the right person.