We've recently run a mock exam in school, and I wanted to do some heavier analysis on the scores than simply comparing a student against the average.

What I wanted was to see how a student performed on a question by question basis and also to know what areas needed reinforcing. What I've done in the past is to enter all the results into an Excel spreadsheet, and then manipulate this data. Sadly this was going to be too heavy and admin task. So I asked the students to help and got them to enter their results into a google form.

Google forms allow you to easily create a questionnaire and distribute that to a number of students, more useful is that the data entry is multi-user so all your students can do it in one go.

You can see my first experiment with the technology in a simple question and answer form

http://sites.google.com/site/jeremiahmaths/datablog-questions