(A2,2) Analyse Students’ Responses with Data Assistant

Analyse Students’ Reponses using Data Assistant

Data Assistant (DAT) is an AI-powered tool that helps teachers analyse qualitative data from student responses. It identifies and summarises major themes from discussions, highlights common misconceptions from students’ responses, and much more. This provides teachers with quick insights into students’ responses , and allows for more timely interventions.

Important: As Data Assistant uses generative AI, its response is probabilistic in nature. Thus, it may be inaccurate at times. It is crucial that teachers carefully review the analysis provided and validate its accuracy before making any interventions based on it.

You can access Data Assistant from:

Aggregated Student Responses in Free-Response Questions
Interactive Thinking Tool, Discussion/Forum

Using Data Assistant

Select from your existing resources an activity containing a Free-Response Question, Discussion Board/Forum, or Interactive Thinking Tool.
Scroll to the bottom of the Question, click View All Responses.

Analyse Students’ Responses with Data Assistant

Click the Data Assistant icon .

Select a pre-populated recipe or create your own by typing instructions for Data Assistant in the space provided. A recipe is a short set of instructions that guides Data Assistant in analysing qualitative data.

Click Generate. Data Assistant will provide an overall analysis and group responses and students into common themes.

Data Assistant can work on questions marked by Short Answer Feedback Assistant to identify common errors and the students who made these errors.
Click on the Overflow (3-dot icon) to access various follow up actions you can undertake.
Clicking Add Comments allows you to click View Students to see the names of students grouped together.

Teacher Comments will be prepopulated with the analysis from Data Assistant. Click Send to share your comments with grouped students. You may also notify students of the comment added by checking the Notify student(s) checkbox.
Click Filter Students to view all responses of any grouped students.
For Discussion Board/Forum: Click Add Keyword Tags to label posts with relevant tags for easier categorisation.
For Interactive Thinking Tool (ITT): Click Bookmark Responses to bookmark specific student responses for later reference.

If you encounter any unexpected errors while using DAT, you may write in to SLS Helpdesk to report the issue.