This is the rubric that is used to score students writing.

Focus, Organization, Support, and Style Scoring Guide

4 (Highest score for the content of a student wrting sample)

-Topic/Subject is clear, though it may or may not be explicitly stated

-Maintains focus on topic/subject throughout the response

-Organizational structure establishes relationships between and among ideas and/or events

-Consists of logical progresstion of ideas and/or events and is unified and complete

-Support and elaboration are related to and supportive of the topic/subject

-Consists of specific/developed details

-Exhibits skillful use of vocabulary that is precise and purposeful

-Demonstrated skillful use of sentence fluency


3

-Topic/subject is generally clear, though it may or may not be explicitly stated

-May exhibit minor lapses in focus on topic/subject

-Organizational structure establishes relationships between and among ideas and/or events,
although minor lapses may not be present

-Consists of logical progression of ideas and/or events and is reasonably complete, although
minor lapses may be present

-Support and elaboration may have minor weaknesses in relatedness to and support of the
topic/subject

-Consists of some specific details

-Exhibits reasonable use of vocabulary that is precise and purposeful

-Demonstrates reasonable use of sentence fluency


2

-Topic/subject may be vague

-May lose or may exhibit major lapses in focus on topic/subject

-Organizational structure may establish little relationship between and among ideas and/or
events

-May have major lapses in the logical progression of ideas and/or events and is minimall
complete

-Support and elaboration may have major weaknesses in relatedness to and support of the
topic/subject

-Consists of general or undeveloped details, which may be presented in a list-like fashion

-Exhibits minimal use of vocabualry that is precise and purposeful

-Demonstrates minimal use of sentence fluency


1-

-Topic/subject is unclear or confusing

-May fail to establish a focus on topic/subject

-Organizational structure may not establish connection between and among ideas and/or events

-May consist of ideas and/or events that are presented in a random fashion and is incomplete or
confusing

-Support and elaboration attempts to support the topic/subject but may be unrelated or confusing

-Consists of sparse details

-Lacks use of vocabulary that is precise and purposeful

-May not demonstrate sentence fluency


NS -Compositions that are entirely illegible or otherwise unscorable: blank responses, responses
written in a foreign language, restatements of the prompt, and responses that are off-topic or
incoherant.



Convention Scoring Guide


2-(Highest possible conventions score for the writing assessment)

-Exhibits reasonable control of grammatical conventions appropriate to the writing task

-Exhibits reasonable control of sentence formation

-Exhibits reasonable control of standard usage including agreement, tense, and case.

-Exhibits reasonable control of mechanics including use of punctuation, capitalization, and
spelling


1-

-Exhibits minimal control of grammatical conventions appropriate to the writing task

-Exhibits minimal control of sentence formation

-Exhibits minimal control of standard usage including agreement, tense, and case

-Exhibits minimal control of mechanics including use of capitalization, punctuation, and
spelling


0-

-Lacks control of grammatical conventions appropriate to the writing task

-Lacks control of sentence formation

-Lacks control of standard usage including agreement, tense, and case

-Lacks control of mechanics including use of capitalization, punctuation, and spelling