A Quill Diagnostic assesses a student's writing skills. After a student completes a Quill Diagnostic, Quill creates reports that show how the student performed on the Quill Diagnostic, and from these reports, you can assign the plan of practice recommendation activities that Quill created based on the student's performance on the Quill Diagnostic.

To navigate to the Diagnostics reports, click the View Reports tab, click the Diagnostic Reports sub-tab, and click the My Diagnostics option from the dropdown menu.

On the Diagnostics report landing page, you will see each Quill Diagnostic assigned to your classes. Use the dropdown menu in the upper left corner of the page to select a class and see only the Quill Diagnostics assigned to that class.

Click the View results and recommendations button for the Quill Diagnostic whose Diagnostics reports you would like to see.

On the left side of the subsequent page, you will see a menu of links to the following reports for this Quill Diagnostic.

The Class summary report provides a series of circle charts that each display the percentage of students in a class who are proficient in a skill assessed by the Quill Diagnostic. A student is proficient in a skill if they correctly answered all of the questions that assessed the writing skill in the Quill Diagnostic.

The Student results report displays each student's proficiency level for each skill for each student who completed the Quill Diagnostic.

After a student completes a Quill Diagnostic, Quill will create a plan of practice recommendation activity packs for each student based on their performance on the Quill Diagnostic. These practice recommendation activity packs can be assigned from the Practice recommendations report.

Each cell within the Practice recommendations report corresponds with a practice recommendation activity pack that may be assigned to a student and can have one of three appearances.

The Student responses report displays both the number and percentage of questions that a student correctly answered when completing a Quill Diagnostic. Furthermore, the Student responses report displays the number of skills for which a student was proficient out of all of the skills assessed by a Quill Diagnostic.

Clicking the View button for a student will lead you to a page showing how a student performed on each prompt in a Quill Diagnostic and each writing skill assessed by a Quill Diagnostic.

The Questions analysis report shows the class-wide average score for each prompt in the Quill Diagnostic. Each prompt is categorized into the writing skill it assesses, and each average score falls within one of three ranges denoted by three colors.

After your students complete a Baseline Diagnostic and all or most of the corresponding practice recommendation activities, you can assign a Growth Diagnostic to measure their growth in each assessed skill.

The Class summary report for a Growth Diagnostic displays a series of circle charts that display the percentage of students who grew in their proficiency in the writing skills assessed by the Baseline Diagnostic and Growth Diagnostic.

In the Class summary report for a Growth Diagnostic, the leftmost circle chart on a card represents the percentage of students who were proficient in a skill based on their performance on the Baseline Diagnostic, and the rightmost circle chart represents the percentage of students who were proficient in a skill based on their performance on the Growth Diagnostic.

The Student results report for a Growth Diagnostic displays the growth in proficiency for each skill for each student.

The Student responses report for a Growth Diagnostic compares a student's Growth Diagnostic and Baseline Diagnostic data and shows a student's percentage score for both a Baseline Diagnostic and Growth Diagnostic, the number of writing skills for which a student is proficient based on their performance on both a Baseline Diagnostic and Growth Diagnostic, and a student's responses to the prompts in the Baseline Diagnostic and Growth Diagnostic.

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