One set of answers. Many scores.
Segmentations — the networked scoring model — compute cross-cutting theme and competency scores alongside your section structure, from the same responses.
Section structure
Your assessment's visible shape — how questions are grouped into sub-sections and sections for the respondent, and how those roll up into the overall score.
Segmentation structure
An invisible second lens over the same answers. A segmentation defines its own set of question weights — independent of where a question sits in the section tree — and rolls up to its own score.
Reweight the same questions, differently.
A segmentation is a named set of question weights. Any question already in your assessment can be included — with a weight that has nothing to do with its section weight — and the engine rolls those weighted answers up into an independent segmentation score.
Three questions from three different sections combine — by their own weights — into one "Strategic thinking" segmentation score.
Built for themes that cut across your structure
Competency themes
A leadership assessment scored by section (self-review, manager feedback, peer feedback) can also report a 'Strategic thinking' segmentation score built from the dozen questions across all three sections that speak to strategy.
Risk or compliance dimensions
A compliance audit organized by process area can carry a segmentation for 'Data protection risk' that pulls a weighted subset of questions from every section into one dedicated risk score.
ESG pillars
Environmental, Social, and Governance segmentations each draw from questions scattered across operational sections, producing three pillar scores alongside the section-based overall.
From score to insight.
A segmentation score behaves exactly like a section score everywhere else in Ascent — it can be charted, benchmarked, banded, and combined into a calculated formula.
- A question can contribute to any number of segmentations, each with its own weight — independent of its section weight.
- Segmentation scores use the same normalized 0–100% scale as section and overall scores, so they compare directly.
- A segmentation score can feed a calculated formula, be shown on a report chart, or resolve to its own rating band.
- Segmentations don't change what the respondent sees — they're a reporting and scoring lens, not a navigation structure.
Map the themes that matter to you.
Combine segmentations with rating bands for themed feedback, or a calculation for a blended score.