Does Prentice Hall Online Essay Scorer’s rubric align to my state’s writing assessment rubric?
Because our holistic and analytic scoring rubrics were developed to reflect writing assessment standards shared by several states across the country, your state’s writing assessment rubric may vary somewhat in language and emphasis from the Prentice Hall Online Essay Scorer rubrics. However, most states’ rubrics correlate in part or in whole to ours. In addition, all students are matched by the computer to a four- or six-point scoring scale based on which scale their state writing assessment uses.
