Effects

Effects tag individual answer choices with a named score that tallies up separately from the test's point total — the mechanism behind personality- or trait-style profiling rather than pass/fail scoring.

Updated 2026/10/12

An Effect is a named score attached to a specific answer choice — on Multiple Choice questions, to an individual choice; on Match questions, to an individual pairing. Whenever a candidate selects that choice, the effect's points are added to a running total for that name, tracked completely independently of the test's point score and of dimensions.

Effects are driven only by which option is selected, never by whether the answer is correct — they never touch success rate, points, or dimensions.

Why a Third, Independent Line

The point pipeline (page/section/test) measures correctness, and dimensions measure competency — both are about how well a candidate performed. Effects measure something else: which choices a candidate leaned toward, regardless of whether those choices were "correct." This is what makes Effects suited to personality, behavioral, or preference-style assessments, where there's no right answer, only a tendency to tally — for example, tagging one MCQ option Leadership: +2 and another Collaboration: +2 on the same question, with no positive or negative multiplier scoring involved at all.

Adding Effects to a Choice

In the Question Bank question editor, open the three-dot menu beside a choice and select Add Effect. In the Configure dialog, click + Add effect, enter an effect Category and Point value, and click Add. The search icon beside Category lets you choose an existing effect definition from the Scoring Framework; you can also enter a category directly. Use + Add effect to add more effects to the same choice, then click Save in Configure and save the question in the editor.

To change an existing effect, reopen the choice's Add Effect configuration and edit its Category or Point value. To remove an effect from a choice, click the × on the effect badge shown below that choice, then save the question.

How Effects Are Tallied

Across the whole test, every selected choice's effects are grouped by name and summed — a candidate who repeatedly picks options tagged Leadership ends up with a high Leadership total, independent of whether those questions were scored right or wrong. These per-name totals are available in session results and exports alongside (but separately from) the point score and any dimension scores.

Effects don't require a positive or negative multiplier to be meaningful — a question can be pure profiling (no right answer, only effects) or combine both: score it normally for correctness and tag choices with effects for a secondary behavioral read.
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