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What Is the Standards Report?
The Standards Report helps you effectively target instruction by tracking student growth against your specific state or district standards. Using a dynamic Momentum Score and actionable Smart Groups, it provides a clear picture of how your students are performing on the specific standards required for your grade level.
How do I access the Standards Report?
The Standards Report is a Premium feature. Access depends on your subscription type:
Teacher Premium: Provides the Class Practice view, showing only work completed in your class.
School & District Premium: Unlocks the All Practice view, which displays a student's full Quill history, including work from previous years and other classes.
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Verification is required for the All Practice view to protect student data. If you're not verified yet, you can read this article to learn how.
To open the Standards Report:
Please navigate to View Reports → Premium Reports → Standards Report.
Setting Up Your Standards Alignment
Before analyzing the data, ensure the report is aligned to the correct set of standards (e.g., TEKS).
Check current alignment: Look at the button next to the report title to see which standards are currently active.
Switch standards: Click that button to open the Report Standards menu. You can switch to a different set of standards at any time.
Note: Changing your standards alignment does not affect student data. It simply changes the "lens" through which you view the report. You can switch back and forth freely to see how student performance applies to different requirements.
Don't see your standards listed? Request additional standards here.
Navigating the Standards Report
The report is built around two main sections. Within each section, you can choose to view the data "By Standard" or "By Student".
(a) The Main Report Sections
Smart Groups: These provide a high-level overview by automatically organizing students or standards into actionable groups (like "Needs Support" or "Meeting Goal") so you can quickly see where to focus your attention.
Performance Breakdown: This detailed view provides a sortable data table with specific metrics for a granular look at performance.
(b) Choosing Your Perspective
"By Standard": Shows your class's average performance across specific standards. Best for identifying which standards the whole class is struggling with.
"By Student": Shows the performance of every student for one specific standard. Best for comparing individual progress on a single curriculum requirement.
(c) Filtering Your Data
Detailed filters at the top of the report allow you to drill down into specific data points. The available filters update automatically depending on which view you are using:
Grade level: Filter to show only standards aligned to specific grade levels. Grade levels with no available standards are disabled.
Skill category: Filter by the skill category standards are aligned to (e.g., Capitalization, Adjectives). Skill categories with no aligned standards are disabled.
Student: Isolate data for a specific student to see their individual progress.
Standard: Select a specific standard to see how every student in your class performed on that single requirement.
Understanding the Report's Metrics
(a) Momentum Score
The Momentum Score is a teacher-facing metric that reflects not only what students know, but how their skills are growing.
What it shows: A student’s overall progress and learning momentum over time. Students do not see this score on their dashboard; they continue to see traditional activity-level scores (percentages).
Why: The Momentum Score is designed as an instructional tool, helping teachers interpret progress rather than simply measure correctness.
How it works: It rewards early accuracy, gives more weight to recent work, and provides a dynamic picture of learning momentum over time.
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You can choose to share insights from the Momentum Score with students manually to help them reflect on their growth.
(b) Skill Exposure
Skill Exposure measures how much practice a student has completed for a given standard. This helps you interpret how reliable a Momentum Score is.
What it shows: The total number of questions a student has answered for that standard.
Why: If a student has only answered a few questions, their Momentum Score may not reflect a stable trend. High exposure means you can trust the score more.
How it is calculated:
Low exposure (1–5 questions): Minimal data. Momentum Score may be less reliable. A low confidence alert icon (⚠) will appear.
Medium exposure (6–14 questions): Moderate practice; shows developing progress.
High exposure (15+ questions): Strong practice base; Momentum Score is highly reliable.
(c) Performance Trend
Performance trends show whether a student’s mastery of a skill is improving, declining, or staying steady over time.
What it shows: Directional trend (e.g., Trending Up or Trending Down) when there is a significant change in a student’s Momentum Score.
Why: This trend metric helps you move from reactive teaching (only responding to low scores) to proactive support. You can spot shifts in momentum early and adjust your instruction or reach out to students in a timely way.
How to interpret:
High Momentum Score + “Trending Down” arrow: May be a warning: the student could be starting to struggle, even if their score is still strong.
Low Momentum Score + “Trending Up” arrow: A powerful signal that the student is improving.
Consistently low score + steady or downward trend: Suggests a need for intervention.
(d) Replay Rate
Replay rate indicates how often a student revisits and retries exercises.
What it shows: The percentage of answered questions that came from replays. It’s calculated by dividing the number of replayed questions by the total number of questions answered.
Why: By examining replay rate alongside Momentum Score and trends, you can better understand whether replays are helping a student learn or if they're being used in less productive ways.
How to interpret:
High replay rate + improving performance: This often means a student is deliberately working to improve, showing persistence and effective use of replays.
High replay rate + stagnant or declining performance: Might indicate the student is stuck despite repeated attempts. This may be a signal for more targeted support.
Excessive replaying for score inflation: The report can help you identify students who may be replaying the same questions to boost their score rather than genuinely mastering the skill.
Deep Dive: How the Data Works
This section explains how Quill connects student answers to your specific standards, bridging the gap between requirements and classroom practice.
(a) Organization & Mapping
The report lists standards by their official ID (e.g., 7.10.D.ii) and description. To make these actionable, Quill connects them directly to the writing skills your students practice every day.
We match each standard to the specific skill sub-categories that cover those requirements. These are the same skills found in the Skills Report, creating a unified view that helps you move seamlessly from abstract requirements to concrete instructional steps.
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You can see this mapping in action on the report: Navigate to the Smart Groups → By Standard view and hover over the green skill category tag on any standard to see exactly which skill sub-categories (e.g., Capitalizing Holidays, Capitalizing Geographic Names) are aligned to that standard.
(b) How Answers Are Attributed
Quill uses a smart attribution system to ensure every question a student answers counts toward the most relevant standard in your curriculum.
Whether a student is working on targeted grade-level practice or reviewing foundational concepts from previous years, our system intelligently matches the performance to the most appropriate standard in your selected framework. This ensures that the data you see is always an accurate reflection of student ability relative to your specific reporting needs.
Taking Action with the Report
The Standards Report is designed to bridge the gap between data analysis and targeted instruction.
(a) Interpreting Smart Groups
Smart Groups organize data based on your Momentum Score Goal (default is 80).
Meeting Goal: Scores that meet or exceed your goal.
Approaching Goal: Scores in the 10-point range below your goal.
Needs Support: Scores more than 10 points below your goal.
Needs More Practice: Low Exposure (5 or fewer questions answered), regardless of score.
(b) Assigning Targeted Practice
Because standards capture broad requirements, they often map to multiple specific writing and grammar skills (as explained in the section above). Therefore, you assign practice via the skill category rather than the standard itself.
Identify the standard: Navigate to the Smart Groups → By Standard view and locate a standard where students need support.
Preview the skills: Hover over the green skill category tag (e.g., "Adjectives") on the standard card to simply see which skills are covered by that standard.
Select the skill category: Click the tag. This will open the Skills Report, which offers a granular performance breakdown for that specific category.
Analyze & assign: In the Skills Report, use the detailed data to identify exactly which skill sub-categories are causing the low scores. You can then assign precise, targeted practice packs for those specific skills.
You can learn more about assigning targeted practice here.
(c) Changing Your Momentum Score Goal
If you want to shift the benchmark that drives your Smart Groups, click Change goal and set a new target between 50–100. Updating this goal automatically refreshes Smart Groups for all your classes, helping you maintain consistency in monitoring student progress.
Once you have selected Change goal, use the slider to set your desired Momentum Score Goal.
Have more questions?
Please feel free to send a message to the Quill team using the green message bubble on the bottom right corner of the screen or email us at support@quill.org.