Create an assessment metric for a category

After you create a category, create metrics you can use to evaluate the assessable records for that category.

Before you begin

Role required: assessment_admin or admin

About this task

When you create metrics, consider the focus of the category and what characteristics you want to measure for the items you will assess.

Procedure

1. Navigate in one of the following ways.

   Option	Description
   Assessments > Metric Definition > Categories	Open a category, and locate the Assessment Metrics related list. This is the suggested navigation path, as the system links metrics to the category from which they are created.
   Assessments > Metric Definition > Metrics

2. Click New.
3. On the Assessment Metric form, fill in the fields.
   For a description of the field values, see Assessment Metric form for a category.
4. Save the record.
   When you create a Choice or Likert Scale question, reopen the Assessment Metric form after you submit it to create a metric definition. If you distribute a questionnaire without creating the answers for questions with these data types, recipients are unable to answer the quesitons. If the questions are mandatory, the recipients are unable to submit their questionnaires.

• Create an assessment metric definition
  Metrics with Choice or Likert Scale data types must have metric definitions defined to represent answer options on questionnaires.
• Change the order of an answer
  By default, the order of answer options is established when a question is created with a data type of Choice or Likert Scale.
• Metric types and assessable records
  In the Assessments application, assessment administrators create and administer metric types and assessable records.

Related concepts

• Assessment metrics

Related tasks

• Create an assessment metric definition
• Update a metric minimum and maximum value to match a template