Academic intelligence

Assessment Data Should Do More Than Generate Reports.

Turn everyday assessment evidence into a continuous view of learning, competency, program performance and institutional quality.

A faculty team reviewing program outcome attainment and assessment analytics together CLO attainment Competency progress Gap identified Program insight
Learning outcome analysis: course outcomes mapped to program outcomes with attainment trends
Outcomes & frameworks

Marks Tell You Who Scored. Outcomes Tell You What Was Learned.

Map what the program intends before you measure what learners achieve. Connect questions and activities to CLOs, PLOs, competencies and EPAs, so evidence aggregates across assessments, cohorts and time.

  • Question and activity mapping to CLOs, rolling up to PLOs.
  • Competency, EPA and graduate-attribute evidence.
  • Multiple frameworks mapped in parallel, with version control.
Bloom's taxonomyMiller's frameworkWebb's Depth of Knowledge
From results to action
One evidence base, four lenses

Make Progress Visible.

The same evidence, viewed at the level each decision needs. These aren't four reporting products. They're four lenses on one record.

Student improvement report

Show learners where the evidence says to improve.

Strengths, gaps, competency progression and taxonomy performance across multiple assessments, with recommended focus areas.

StrengthsGapsCompetencyRecommended focus
An academic reviewing multi-layer analytics: student, cohort, faculty and institutional views with a custom report builder
Early signals

See the Gap While There Is Still Time to Act.

Identify under-performing outcomes, learner groups or competencies before they become year-end findings. DigiAssess highlights the pattern. Educators decide what to do about it.

CLO 3.2 · data interpretationBelow target in 2 of 3 sectionsAttention
Cohort 2027 · clinical reasoningTrending down over two periodsWatch
PLO 1 · problem solvingAbove target across all coursesOn track
EPA 4 · insufficient evidenceNo workplace observations logged yetEvidence needed

Sample attention map.

Psychometric item analysis

Know Whether the Assessment Worked as Intended.

An exam can produce marks while containing items that are too easy, too hard or poor at telling strong and weak performance apart. Item analysis makes assessment quality visible.

Sample item analysis
ItemDifficultyDiscriminationPoint-biserialReview
Q30.620.410.38Good
Q70.940.080.06Too easy
Q110.480.360.33Good
Q140.21-0.05-0.04Check key
Q190.550.290.27Good

Sample data. Reliability indicators are reported for the whole assessment.

Difficulty index

The share of candidates who answered correctly. Very high or very low values suggest the item isn't separating levels of understanding.

Discrimination index

Whether stronger candidates answer correctly more often than weaker ones. Negative values often signal a flawed item or answer key.

Distractor efficiency

Whether each wrong option is actually chosen by some candidates. Options nobody picks add nothing.

Point-biserial correlation

How closely performance on the item tracks performance on the whole assessment.

Reliability indicators

How consistently the assessment as a whole measures what it's meant to measure.

Reading the evidence together
Direct & indirect measurement · DigiSurvey

Outcomes Are Stronger When Performance and Perception Are Read Together.

Assessment shows what learners demonstrate. Surveys show how learners, faculty, alumni and employers perceive achievement. They answer different questions, and both belong in the evidence.

Direct evidenceWhat learners demonstrate
  • Assessment scores and rubrics
  • Assignments and practicals
  • Outcome and competency attainment
Program insight
Indirect evidenceWhat stakeholders perceive
  • Outcome-based surveys mapped to CLOs, PLOs and competencies
  • Student, faculty, alumni and employer feedback
  • KPI dashboards and AI-assisted sentiment analysis
HEBA AI · Human-governed AI

AI Can Find the Pattern. Academics Decide What It Means.

AI accelerates analysis, evaluation and reporting. Academic meaning depends on context, so the final decision stays with authorized educators and leaders.

AI-assisted insightPattern detected

Cohort 2027 under-performs on 14 data-interpretation items mapped to CLO 3.2, across three assessments.

Source items linkedReasoning shown
Educator decisionReviewed and acted on

The course lead checks the source items, confirms the pattern and adds it to the curriculum committee agenda. The decision is recorded.

Human reviewOverride availableTraceable

Illustration with sample data.

Accreditation & quality · Q360

Don't Build Accreditation Evidence Twice.

Quality teams often rebuild the same evidence in different formats for different frameworks. Keep one evidence base and reuse it across the reporting contexts you answer to.

One evidence baseOutcome attainment · competency evidence · moderation records · course reports · improvement actions
ABET reporting context

Student outcome evidence for applied science, computing and engineering programs, drawn from routine assessment.

A continuous improvement path from baseline outcomes through program review and curriculum update to improved outcomes and accreditation readiness

Accreditation Preparation Should Be the Output of Continuous Quality Work.

Q360 extends the evidence layer into governed quality workflows, so evidence, approvals and improvement actions build up all year.

  • Structured QA workflows and approvals.
  • Evidence repository linked to assessment and outcomes.
  • Institutional dashboards and accreditation tracking.
  • Automated report generation.

Assessment Data → Evidence → Academic Intelligence → Improvement.

See how this works for your institution's context.