The essay will be scored by experienced and trained high school and college teachers. Each essay will be scored by two people who won’t know each other’s score. They won’t know the student’s identity or school either. Each reader will give the essay a score from 1 to 6 (6 is the highest score) based on the following scoring guide.

The SAT scoring guide was downloaded from the CollegeBoard website at: http://www.collegeboard.com/student/testing/sat/prep_one/essay/scoring_guide_popup.html

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SAT Scoring Guide by Waypoint Outcomes is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License.
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This rubric was designed for AACSB-accreditation data gathering around written communication and ethics.
The rubric is used by business faculty, English faculty, and outside assessors to triangulate assessment results and examine how these different audiences view student work.

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This detailed rubric is designed for feedback and assessment. It includes audience, ethics, and graphics along with one criteria specific to engineering (which could be easily removed).

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This rubric is specific to assessing how students engage with and utilize texts (research), including their ability to synthesize and evaluate the quality of resources.

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This concise rubric is intended to give basic feedback on broad areas of writing skill, including thesis, organization, grammar & mechanics, and development.

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