Welcome Virginia Educators

Welcome to Perspective, the new home of understand scoring (formerly Mentor). Understand Scoring provides you with valuable insight into the constructed response scoring process.

As you use Understand Scoring, you will gain a greater understanding of the essay scoring process by examining sample of professionally scored papers and practicing scoring sets of essays on your own.

View the tutorial to learn how to use Understand Scoring.
View the Educator's User Guide for a comprehensive overview of Perspective.

Understand Scoring

This program is designed to help you

Gain a better understanding of the Virginia Standards of Learning Direct Writing Assessments for grade 5, grade 8, and High School
Understand the use of rubrics in scoring student writing
Develop consistency in scoring actual student work

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