Planning |
Narrative elements** |
1 point per element present in the text: introduction of subject matter, characters, ambiance, problem or purpose, action, denouement and emotions; (range=0–7). |
Temporal sequence error* |
1 point per each alteration in the chronological order of events. |
Content errors/digressions* |
1 point per one of off-topic statements. |
Cohesion errors* |
1 point per each incomplete and/or ambiguous reference by inadequate use or absence of connectives. |
Planning errors |
Sum of sequence, content, and cohesion errors. |
Translation |
Number of words* |
1 point for words of the text. |
Number of clauses* |
1 point per clauses (1 point per unit composed by subject and predicate that included a personal form of a verb). |
Words per clause* |
Division of number of words by number of clauses. |
Number of sentences |
1 point per sentence. |
Number of compound sentences |
1 point per compound sentence (more than one clause). |
Syntactic complexity* |
Division between compound sentences and number of sentences. |
Morphosyntactic errors* |
1 point per error (agreement of gender, number, or between subject and verb; in the order of words in sentences; omissions, substitutions or additions of functional words [such as articles, prepositions, adverbs]). |
Spelling errors* |
1 point per spelling error (there can be more than one error in a word). |
Correct words |
1 point per word with no spelling errors. |
Absolute spelling accuracy |
Percentage of number of correct words in relation to number of words. |
Relative spelling accuracy |
Percentage of number of words spelled correctly and number of words that are not monosyllables. |
Presentation errors* |
1 point per error (erasures, illegible words, inadequacy as to capitalization, spacing and separation of words, etc.). |
Paragraphing (organization of text content into paragraphs) |
Considering the text in its entirety, assign: 1 for no division of paragraphs; 2 for inadequate paragraphing; 3, partially adequate paragraphing; and 4 for adequate punctuation (range=1–4) |
Score |
Considering the text in its entirety, assign: 1 for no punctuation; 2 for inadequate punctuation; 3 for partially adequate punctuation; and 4 for adequate punctuation (range=1–4). |
Revision |
Formal revisions* |
1 point per each rewriting of illegible words, correction of punctuation, and correction of spelling. |
Content revisions* |
1 point per each addition, exclusion, shift, and transformation of word, sentence, or clause in attempting to improve the content. |
Formal revision |
Percentage of formal revisions in relation to total formal errors |
Content revision |
Percentage of content revisions in relation to total content errors |
Revision* |
Percentage of formal revisions and content revisions in relation to total revisions. |