Go Formula Free with
Segmentations
While easy enough to generate, formulas can be arduous to manage when you have hundreds of them. Segmentations connect scores and responses in a way typically managed by formulas, so you can ditch the spreadsheets and create detailed feedback or charts easily and accurately.
Create a network of scores across the assessment
The best way to think about segmentation is as a tagged score network. By tagging questions or answers with segmentations, you can group components with a particular theme across the assessment. Segmentations can then be used to create automated feedback and results that don’t perfectly align with the assessment heirarchy.
Segmentations for Questions
In the case of question-based segmentations, questions (and their associated answers) can be associated with a Segmentation regardless of where they appear in the assessment. This is great for non-linear assessments or cases where questions may link across two areas of an assessment’s hierarchical scoring.
Note: you can use a combination of Network and Hierarchical scoring approaches in Brilliant Assessments – see our video on scoring strategies here.
Segmentations for Answers
Where a Segmentation is built on Answers, specific answers can be linked to one or more segmentations, even where they are associated with the same question. For example, if you are running DISC Assessments where each answer is associated with a certain psychological profile, you may associate a Segmentation for each D, I, S, and C answer.
An answer can also be segmented based on its position on a Likert scale or ranking order, delivering a highly detailed perspective on how a respondent has engaged with a question or series of answer options.
Use Segmentations to Generate Themes in Hierarchical Assessments
Each section, subsection, and question has an automatically generated rating in hierarchically scored assessments. However, if questions across these sections paint a picture around a theme that isn’t in the hierarchy, Segmentations can be used to tag these questions (or answers) into their own group for automated ratings. This is also a widespread use of segmentations in cohort feedback separate from the individual assessment.
Prevent Score ‘Fixing’ in Leadership or Skills Assessments
Psychological or skills-based assessments, particularly those used in recruitment or leadership assessments, can be prone to respondents answering questions to gain the desired outcome rather than reflecting true thoughts, feelings or capabilities. For example, a Leadership Style section in an assessment may suggest to respondents that they are being judged on their skills for a better role with better pay – and answers may be forged to match this ‘ideal’ profile.
Segmentations are useful for reducing bias due to question order - preventing respondents from ‘hacking’ the scoring – and/or controlling how ratings are generated through associated questions.
Simple to set up
While Segmentations can perform a complex task, they’re simple to set up in the assessment builder.
Give each segmentation group a unique title so you can identify it quickly when tagging questions or answers or generating feedback.
The way you title your segmentations won’t be visible to respondents, so you can apply the naming conventions that make the most sense for you.
Segmentation numbers create a reference short code for feedback parameters. To learn more, visit our support articles.
Be Brilliant with Segmentations
Segmentations create a network of responses to remove the need for complex formulas. Simply tag questions or answers to themes in a way that facilitates the scoring you need. If you have an assessment and want to discuss how Brilliant Assessments can help you ditch the manual formulas and create a consistent feedback experience, book a 1:1 demo with our team or start your trial today.