Managing Comparison Groups

Creating a New Comparison Group

Open CGG.
Click the Create button. The Create Comparison Group dialog box will appear.
Select an Assessment Type.
Select a comparison group name or create a new comparison group.
Choose a gender and click OK. The Edit Comparison Group Definition window will display.

Note: Any comparison group name may have at most one male, one female, and one combined-gender group associated with it. Therefore, it is not possible to associate a new comparison group with a comparison group name which already had all three gender types associated with it.

Attributes

Attribute	Description	Field Type	Characters Allowed
Assessment Type	Select the assessment you will use to create the comparison group.	Dropdown	N/A
Group Name	Select an existing comparison group name OR create a new comparison group name.	Dropdown/ Text Field	46 characters allowed- A-Z, a-z, 0-9, @. -'
Gender	Select a gender for the comparison group.	Radio Button	N/A

Attribute

Description

Field Type

Characters Allowed

Assessment Type

Select the assessment you will use to create the comparison group.

Dropdown

N/A

Group Name

Select an existing comparison group name OR create a new comparison group name.

Dropdown/

Text Field

46 characters allowed- A-Z, a-z, 0-9, @. -'

Gender

Select a gender for the comparison group.

Radio Button

N/A

User Interface Controls

Control Label	Function
OK	Validates all the data entered, saves the user-defined comparison group and returns the Edit Comparison Group Definition Screen. If this user-defined comparison group already exists in the system, a notification will display, “Duplicate Name” and text “<Name> already exists.”
Cancel	Closes the window without saving any data and returns you to the Main Comparison Group Generator screen.

Specifying Records for a Comparison Group

When you create a new user-defined comparison group, you are taken to the Edit Comparison Group Definition screen in CGG. This is where you specify which assessment records in your Q-global database should be used to define a set of norm group statistics.

The Edit Comparison Group Definition Screen contains two views, an Available Records view and a Comparison Group view. The Available Records view displays all assessment records in your Q-global database which:

- Match the gender designation of your comparison group (e.g., if you are defining a female comparison group, only records from female examinees will be displayed).
- Have not been archived in Q-global.
- Are in a Ready for Reporting state.
- Have been reported on.

The Comparison Group view displays all assessment records you have selected to be included in the comparison group. To define the comparison group, select one or more records from the list of Available Records and MOVE TO Comparison Group. To remove records from the Comparison Group, select one or more records and MOVE TO Available Records.

To submit the comparison group for validation, click Create Group. To save and continue later click Save.

Attributes - Edit Comparison Group Definition

Attribute	Description
Total Entries	Displays total number of records in the available records list.
Females Selected	Displays total number of female records in the defining records list.
Males Selected	Displays total number of male records in the defining records list.
Total Selected	Displays total number of male and female records in the defining records list.
Last Name	Examinee’s Last Name.
First Name	Examinee’s First Name.
Examinee ID	Examinee’s ID.
Assessment	Assessment Record Type.
Admin Date	Date the assessment was administered.
Gender	Examinee’s Gender.
Custom Field 1-4	Additional data your organization captured for the examinee.
Filter	Returns the Filter dialog. See below for instructions on filtering.
View	Toggles between Available Records view and Comparison Group view.

User Interface Controls - Edit Comparison Group Definition

Control Label	Function
Create Group	Validates all data entered and sends request to have statistics computed.
Save List	Saves list of defining records to comparison group in database.
Move To	Moves selected records between Available Records list and Comparison Group list.
Cancel	Closes the window without saving any data and returns you to the Main CGG Screen.

Validation

When you submit a comparison group for validation, Q-global checks to ensure that a minimum of 200 records have been selected, there is a gender balance for combined-gender comparison groups, and all records contain valid scores. This process can take several minutes.

If one or more validity requirements are not satisfied, the system will notify you. You will be required to fulfill the requirements before your comparison group can be created.

- If the minimum records requirement is not satisfied, the system will prompt you to add more records to satisfy the requirement.
- If a gender imbalance occurs and the number of male and female records is not equal, the system will randomly select records from the gender with the most records to remove.
- If score requirements are not satisfied, the system will prompt you to remove those records from your list of defining records.

When all validity requirements are met, your comparison group statistics will be generated.

Additional Information

Gender radio buttons will be enabled / disabled according to the group availability of the selected comparison group name. For example, if the selected comparison group name already has combined-gender and male comparison groups defined, then the ‘Combined-Gender’ and ‘Male’ radio buttons will be disabled, and only the ‘Female’ radio button will be enabled.
A minimum of 200 records required to generate a User-defined comparison group.

Filtering Records

The list of available records on the ‘Edit Comparison Group Definition’ dialog can be filtered to find one or more assessment records.

Attributes - Filter dialog

Attribute	Description
Examiner	The name or part of a name of the examiner(s) you are looking for. Values are: Starts with, Contains, Is equal to
Birth Date	The birth date or birth date range of the examinees. In addition to adding a date you can select from the following options: Is equal to, Is before, Is after, Is between (will display a 2nd date field). *Note*: Date format will be based on your regional date setting.
Gender	The gender of the examinees. Values are Male, Female, Unspecified, Other
Administration Date	Values are: Is equal to, Is before, Is after, and Is between. Enter the desired date(s). *Note*: When Is between is selected, two date fields are displayed.
Custom Field 1	Additional data your organization captured for the examinee.
Custom Field 2	Additional data your organization captured for the examinee.
Custom Field 3	Additional data your organization captured for the examinee.
Custom Field 4	Additional data your organization captured for the examinee.
Assessment Form Type	Assessment used to create record.

User Interface Controls - Filter Dialog

Control Label	Function
OK	Filters list of available records based on selected criteria.
Cancel	Closes the window without saving any data and returns you to the ‘Edit Comparison Group Definition’ dialog.

Deleting a Comparison Group

Open CGG.
Click the Delete button corresponding to the comparison group to would like to delete. A Confirm Delete dialog box will appear.
To confirm deletion, click OK. The comparison group will be deleted.

Renaming a Comparison Group

Open CGG.
Click the Edit Name button corresponding to the group name you would like to change. A Rename Comparison Group dialog box will appear.
Enter a new name in the field.
Click the OK button to confirm name change.

Attributes - Rename Comparison Group


Attribute	Description	Field Length	Characters Allowed
Name	This field is required to change name.	46	A-Z, a-z, 0-9, @. -'

User Interface Controls - Rename Comparison Group

Control Label	Function
OK	Validates all the data entered, saves the user-defined comparison group name and returns you to the Main Comparison Group Generator screen. *Note*: If this required field is empty a notification will display, “Comparison Group Name can’t be blank.” If you enter the name of a user-defined comparison group that already exists in the system, a notification will display, “Comparison Group Name already exists.”
Cancel	Closes the window without saving any data and returns you to the Main Comparison Group Generator screen.

Control Label

Function

Validates all the data entered, saves the user-defined comparison group name and returns you to the Main Comparison Group Generator screen.

Note: If this required field is empty a notification will display, “Comparison Group Name can’t be blank.”

If you enter the name of a user-defined comparison group that already exists in the system, a notification will display, “Comparison Group Name already exists.”

Cancel

Closes the window without saving any data and returns you to the Main Comparison Group Generator screen.

Additional Information

· When the last comparison group associated with a comparison group name is deleted, the comparison group name will remain but all groups will be deleted.