Group Weights

Question group weights allow you to assign different levels of importance to different groups in your assessment. If you don't assign specific weights to groups, all questions (across all groups) are given equal weights.

To apply weights to a group, you can turn on the Set per group weight setting as shown below:

Let us consider an example to illustrate application of weights on question groups. In this example, test creator has created two groups of questions: Pronunciation group and Fluency group. Test creator has further assigned a weight of 70% to Pronunciation group and 30% to the Fluency group, as shown in the image below.

Notice that two random questions are chosen from Pronunciation group and one random question from Fluency group.

As can be seen in the image above, the overall assessment weight is the sum of the weights you assign to each group (e.g., 70% + 30% = 100%).

The weight of each individual question is calculated by dividing its group's total weight equally among the questions selected from that group.

For instance, in the example above, as two questions are selected from the Pronunciation group, each will carry a weight of 35% (70%/2). Similarly, as only one question is selected from the Fluency group, that single question will carry the full 30% weight.

Please refer the Scoring with Weights and Randomization user guide for more details.