Developing assessments plays a crucial role in evaluating candidates effectively. This article explores the details of scoring and creating questions in the Canditech platform, offering practical insights to help you design assessments that accurately showcase a candidate's abilities.

In this article, we'll look into the two scoring methods Canditech provides: manual and automatic. Additionally, we'll take a close look at the various question types supported by our platform. Whether you're assessing open-text responses, video submissions, multiple-choice knowledge, or technical skills like coding and SQL, our platform is designed to meet your specific needs.

Canditech provides a wide array of question types to accurately assess candidates' skills for any given role. Every question type can be scored; some are scored automatically, while others require a manual evaluation.

Manually Scored Questions are those that are not auto-scored. In other words, a correct answer will not be assigned to the Question automatically upon submission of the candidates’ assessment, and the Question must be graded by the test-reviewer using “star-ratings”. For these Questions, you can choose to assign a score or leave the score at 0. These question types are open-text and video response questions. For more information on reviewing a candidate's assessment, click here.

Automatically Scored Questions, on the other hand, are questions for which a correct answer is pre-defined and automatically checked. When creating these questions, you are required to provide the correct answer, and the scoring is automated. These question types include multiple-choice, Excel, Google Sheet, Code, and SQL questions.

With this article, you'll be better equipped to create assessments that truly reflect a candidate's abilities and make informed hiring decisions.

Canditech supports a variety of question types in order to comprehensively evaluate candidates’ skills through a variety of exercises.

Every Question type provides you with the following Question Editor to format your Question. Here, you can format your Question text, add links, upload an image, video, or file, etc.

Multiple Choice Questions allow candidates to select an answer from a list of choices. Questions must have a minimum of 2 answers.

Create a Multiple Choice Question:

Multiple choice Questions are automatically scored. The correct answer(s) should be selected for scoring.

This is how the finalized question will appear on the Assessment:

Open Text Questions allow candidates to respond in an open-text format.

Create an Open Test Question:

Open text Questions can be scored manually. If you would like to score them manually when reviewing a specific candidates’ session, set the score to be greater than 0. Otherwise, you can leave the default score as 0.

This is how the finalized question will appear on the Assessment:

Video Questions allow candidates to give a recorded response to the camera.

Create a Video Question:

Video Questions can be scored manually. If you would like to score them manually when reviewing a specific candidates’ session, set the score to be greater than 0. Otherwise, you can leave the default score as 0.

This is how the finalized question will appear on the Assessment:

Excel Questions allow you to upload an Excel file for candidates to download during the test. The candidates will be able to work on the file on their local machine, and then upload their final version.

Create an Excel Question:

Excel Questions are automatically scored. The correct answer(s) should be inputted for scoring.

This is how the finalized question will appear on the Assessment:

Google Sheet Questions allow you to create an embedded Sheet for candidates to view and make edits to. The candidates will be able to work on the file directly from the Assessment, and their edits will be automatically saved.

Create a Google Sheet Question:

Google Sheet Questions are automatically scored. The correct answer(s) should be inputted for scoring.

This is how the finalized question will appear on the Assessment:

Value Questions allow the candidate to record a specific value response for a question.

Create a Value Question:

Value Questions are automatically scored. The correct answer should be input for scoring.

This is how the finalized question will appear on the Assessment:

File Upload Questions allow candidates to upload a file (image, code, etc.) containing their work. For example, the candidate can upload an image of a graph they created, or a coding project they completed locally on their machine.

Create a File Upload Question:

File Upload Questions are manually scored. The scoring can be left at 0, or you can choose to assign a specific score to the Question that will be manually applied while grading a specific candidates’ assessment.

This is how the finalized question will appear on the Assessment:

Coding questions allow candidates to implement a function based on provided requirements and run their code in various programming languages. Coding questions tests candidate’s relevant coding skills and levels.

Input the question description and instructions:

Choose Code Language:

Input Function Signature:

Input Test Cases:

Validation:

This is how the finalized question will appear on the Assessment:

SQL Questions allow candidates to write a query that returns an output based on the tables and question provided.

When creating the first SQL question, you will be required to upload the database tables for the section.

This is how the finalized question will appear on the Assessment:

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