Blue Print Test

The Criteria Of Writing Evaluation

Score
Criteria
level
Excellent to very good; knowledge; substantive; through
30-27
C development of thesis; relevant to assigned topic
O Good average; some knowledge of subject; adequate range;
N 26-22 limited development of thesis ; mostly relevant to topic, but
T lacks detail
E Fair to poor; limited knowledge of subject ; title substance;
21-17
N inadequate development of topic
T Very poor; does not show knowledge of subject; non
16-17
substantive ; not pertinent; or not enough to evaluate
O Excellent to very good; fluent expression; ideas clearly
R 20-18 stated/ supported; succinct; well organized; logical sequencing
G ; cohesive
A Good to average ; somewhat choppy; loosely organized but
N 17-14 main ideas stand out; limited support; logical but incomplete
I sequencing
Z Fair to poor: non fluent; ideas confused or disconnected;
A 13-10 lacks logical sequencing and development
T
I Very poor: does not communicate; no organization; or not
O 9-7 enough to evaluate
N
V Excellent to very good: sophisticated range; effective
O 20-18 word/idiom choice and usage; word form mastery; appropriate
C register
A Good to average: adequate range; occasional errors of
17-14
B word/idiom form; choice ; usage but meaning not obscured
U Fair to poor: limited range; frequent of word/idiom form;
13-10
L choice usage; meaning confused or obscured
A Very poor: essentially translation; little knowledge of
R 9-7 English vocabulary; idiom, word form, or not enough to
Y evaluate
Excellent to very good: effective complex construction few
25-22 errors of agreement, tense, number, word order/function,
L articles, pronouns, preposition
A Good to average: effective but simple construction; minor
N constrictions; frequent errors of negations, agreement, tense,
21-18
G number, word order/function, articles, pronouns, preposition
U but meaning seldom obscured
A 17-11 Fair to poor: major problems in simple/complex
G construction; frequent errors of negations, agreement, tense,
E number, word order/function, articles, pronouns, preposition
and/or fragments run-ons, deletion; meaning confused or
obscured
U Very poor: virtually no mastery of sentence contraction
S 10-5 rules; dominated by error ;doesn’t communicate, or not
E enough evaluate
Excellent to very good: demonstrates mastery of convention;
5 few error of spelling, punctuations, capitalization,
M
paragraphing
E
Good to average: occasional error of spelling, punctuation,
C 4
capitalizations, paragraphing, , but meaning not obscured
H
Fair to poor: frequent error of spelling, punctuation,
A
3 capitalizations, paragraphing, poor handwriting, meaning
N
confuse or obscured
I
Fair to poor: no mastery of conventions, dominated by errors
C
2 of spelling, punctuation, capitalizations, paragraphing,
handwriting illegible, or not enough to evaluate