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Understand Scoring


Understand Scoring will help you by providing:
  • Information about the Virginia Standards of Learning English Assessment
  • Opportunities to study the rubrics used for scoring the direct writing assessments
  • Anchor papers that illustrate each score point of each domain
  • Practice scoring several sets of papers written by Virginia students
  • Verification of your progress by evaluating the accuracy of the scores you assign to a final set of papers (verification set)
teaching resource icon Learn About Scoring
Click here to view overview, introduction to and instructional material about the scoring process.
View Anchor Papers
Click here to view Anchor Papers and annotations about the assigned score.
Practice Scoring
Click here to practice scoring student work and compare your results to assigned scores.