A number is a fact. A rating is feedback.
Rating bands turn any computed score — overall, a section, or a segmentation — into a colored label with written guidance, automatically.
Define your bands once. Apply them everywhere.
A rating band is a min–max range on the normalized 0–100% scale, paired with a label, a color, and optional feedback text. Set up a band set for your overall score — then, where it matters, scope a different set to a specific section or segmentation, so a safety section can demand a stricter pass mark than the framework's general bands.
Every score in Ascent — automated, assessor, AI-interpreted, calculated, or a segmentation — resolves against bands the same way, so ratings stay consistent across the whole report.
Example band set
Built to handle real scoring, not just tidy ranges
Rating resolution is deliberately robust — no respondent is ever left without feedback.
Color and label per band
Every band carries its own label and color, so a report tile, chart, or PDF can shade a score red, amber, or green — or your own brand palette — the instant it's computed.
Scoped to section or segmentation
Define one global band set for the overall score, then override it for a specific section or segmentation — a compliance section can use a stricter pass/fail band than the general framework.
Feedback text per band
Attach narrative feedback to each band, so the respondent's report doesn't just show a number and a color — it explains what that range means and what to do next.
Resolves on the normalized scale
Bands match against the 0–100% normalized score, not raw points — so the same band set works whether a section is worth 20 points or 200.
No gaps in the range.
If a score falls precisely between two adjacent bands — a rounding edge case most tools simply mis-handle — Ascent snaps it to the nearest configured band by edge distance rather than returning nothing. A respondent only sees "unrated" if their score is genuinely outside every band you defined, which you control.
- The narrowest matching band wins, so a section- or segmentation-specific override always beats a broader global band.
- Bands snap to the nearest range on a rounding edge case instead of leaving a respondent unrated.
- Feedback text renders directly on interactive results pages, PDFs, and Word reports.
- Band colors carry straight through to report tiles and charts — no manual re-mapping.
Give every score a color and a voice.
Pair rating bands with the scoring engine and segmentations for feedback that feels genuinely written for each respondent.