21  The T.O.V.A. Report

Note: T.O.V.A. results should be interpreted only by qualified professionals.

Viewing a report is easy. In the main window, highlight the session you want to report on and choose ‘View’.

Note: If you want to view a comparison report, highlight more than one session using Shift-click or Ctrl-click. The ‘View’ button becomes a ‘Compare’ button, and when you choose it, you will see a graph comparing the highlighted sessions. For more information on the comparison report, see section 21.2.

The T.O.V.A. Report

While you’re viewing a report, there will be a list of the report pages in the left pane. Highlight a page to view it in the right pane. There are other options along the top of the window (Figure 32).

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Button	Function	Details
	Save	Exports a .pdf file of the report
	Print	Send the report to your printer
	Copy...	Copy the text of the current report page or the entire report to your clipboard
	Back/Next	Proceed through the pages of the report
	Smaller/Larger	Zoom out/in on the report pages
	Fit to width	Zooms the report page to the width of the window
	Fit page	Zooms to view the entire page of the report in the window without scrolling
	Customize	Choose which pages of the report to display, among other customizations. See Customizing the Report, section 21.1 below.
	Help	Loads this Help section
	Close report	Closes the report window

Figure 32: Report Viewer options

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21.1  Customizing the Report

Select pages and fields to include

Choose ‘Customize’ from the Report window, and you’ll find several ways to customize the T.O.V.A. report:

• Pages to display - Select pages to include in your report. You can select pages individually, or you can choose a ‘Standard report’, which automatically selects all of the pages in the report.
• Custom fields - Choose which custom subject and session fields should appear. When selected, custom fields will appear near the top on most pages of the report.

  Note: By default, new custom fields do not appear in the T.O.V.A. report until they are selected, and even then, the field will only appear if it has a value. In other words, if you set no value for Sarah’s hair length, that session’s report will not display “Hair length: ”, it will just not appear.

• Show subject names on reports - If unchecked, this simply causes the subject’s name to not appear on the report when viewed, printed, or saved to a .pdf.
• Show Performance Validity - Uncheck this option to hide Performance Validity.
• Restrict standard score display to between 40 and 140 - Uncheck to show raw values.
• Compress Raw Data Graph Range - Raw Data Graphs was expanded in T.O.V.A. 8.2 to two pages in order to show the full range. Select this option to compress the graphs to fit on a single page, as in previous T.O.V.A. versions.
• Connect correct responses with lines - This option draws lines from one correct response to the next on the Raw Data Graphs.
• Use PDF reader for printing - Some printers conflict with our default approach to printing the T.O.V.A. report, causing the report to print very slowly or incompletely. When selected, this works around the problem by exporting the T.O.V.A. report to a PDF and printing the report through your installed PDF viewer. You will need PDF reader software installed to use this feature, but most options will work.
• Report page size - Choose between ‘Letter’ and ‘A4’.

Once you’ve made your changes, choose ‘Apply’, or choose ‘Set as default’ to apply your changes to this and all future reports. Close the window to abandon your selections.

21.2  Comparison Graphs

When you select more than one session in the main window, the ‘View’ button becomes a ‘Compare’ button. Click it to bring up a report with graphs comparing statistics of the selected sessions.

You can highlight multiple sessions using ‘Ctrl’-click (Mac users, ‘Command’-click) to highlight each additional session, or ‘Shift’-click to highlight a range of sessions.

The Comparison Report

There are three pages:

Standard Comparison Graphs

- Similar to those in the T.O.V.A. 7, this displays four graphs, each comparing the results for one statistic each session and quarter.

Small Comparison Graphs

- This contains many smaller graphs, one for each session and statistic, so that you can compare graphs rather than values.

ACS Comparison Graphs

- This page displays the ACS score bars of the selected sessions, so you can easily compare the scores.

21.3  Pasting content into Word

When you are viewing the T.O.V.A. report, you can click the ‘C[o]py the text of this page or the entire report to the clipboard’ button to copy the text of the current page or of the entire report to your OS’s clipboard. You can also right-click on a specific table (such as the Tabulated Data table) in the report and choose ‘Copy table’. Once it’s copied to your clipboard, switch to your word processor and paste it there.

Copy just the table

You can take a table copied from the T.O.V.A. report and convert it into a table in Microsoft Word. Versions of Word vary, but here are instructions for some.

21.3.1  Word 2007 and later

1. Highlight the pasted text you want to convert into a table.
2. Click on the ‘Insert’ tab.
3. Click on ‘Table’.
4. Choose ‘Convert Text to Table’.
5. Click ‘OK’.

21.3.2  Earlier versions of Word

1. Highlight the pasted text you want to convert into a table.
2. Click on the ‘Table’ menu, choose ‘Convert’, and then ‘Text to Table’.
3. Click ‘OK’.

21.4  Printing problems

We try to support all printers, but if you encounter problems printing the T.O.V.A. report, there is a workaround:

21.4.1  Windows

1. In the Report window, click ‘Save’ and save the .pdf file to a known location (such as your desktop).
2. Open that location and right-click the .pdf file.
3. Choose ‘Print’. Alternatively, you may choose to open the file in your computer’s PDF viewer and customize the printing options there.

21.4.2  Mac

1. In the Report window, click ‘Save’ and save the .pdf file to a known location (such as your desktop).
2. Open that location and double-click the .pdf file. That should Preview the saved report.
3. In Preview, print the report.

We hope that this works for you. However, please do send us a Tech Support request (section 29) to let us know about the problem, so we can correct this for you and other users.

After that, you can automate this workaround:

1. Run the T.O.V.A. and choose ‘Preferences’, ‘Reports’.
2. Check ‘Use PDF reader for printing’ and click ‘Save’.

From then on, printing a report will save a temporary file, open your default PDF viewer, and print the report using your default printer/settings.