Record F10-1 · 2024–2025
F10-1: Source Based Exposition
Written in the spring 2025 operational assessment and published in the 2025 anchor set. Florida grade 10; exact age unknown.
Original student excerpt
These explorers were able to collect incredible scientific data and samples during their deep-dive and exploration of the deep underwater tunnels, which would have never been collected before. Along with this research, Source 3 states that "they also recovered several specimens of albino crayfish unique to the caves." This species was previously unknown and without the exploration of these systems, would have stay undiscovered. Exploration of these caves has resulted in amazing scientific findings and continued exploration will extend these discoveries and create even more possibilities to discover incredible things.
Four consecutive sentences from the agency-published response; original student spelling and punctuation preserved.
Prompt and conditions
Exact prompt. Your high school is doing a research project on Florida’s natural landmarks. Write an expository essay about the value of exploring Florida’s cave systems.
- Source conditions
- Supplied Sources; supplied text packet; outside sites, copy/paste, devices, and AI prohibited.
- Time
- 120 minutes. One secure session; unfinished students could continue up to half a typical school day.
- Production / archive
- typed secure computer-based test; anonymized response in agency anchor PDF.
- Drafting
- planning and in-session review allowed; no post-feedback revision.
- Population and selection
- Florida grade 9 or 10 statewide operational B.E.S.T. Writing response; individual age, school, and accommodations unknown. Operational response purposively published as a scoring anchor; not a random state response.
Scorer and feedback role
Institutional Assessor. Not an authenticated classroom-teacher feedback pair.
- Original source classification
- 9 of 12 — within the range of grade-level performance. Purpose/Structure 3, Development 3, Language 3; operational response published as an anchor.
- Form
- Scoring Annotation; response-specific.
- Revision after feedback
- None survives.
“Adequate elaboration is provided with appropriate expansion of ideas and paraphrasing.”
Read the evidence coding
Conceptual claimCave exploration yields research, historical knowledge, and rare experience.
Ideas and relationships3 coded units. Specimens support discovery, artifacts/fossils support history, and remoteness supports experiential value.
AbstractionEmerging
Causal reasoningClassificatory Causal
Qualification / counterargumentNone
Evidence useAll Supplied Sources Relevant
OrganizationThree Part Preview And Body
Sentence controlControlled
Lexical precisionDomain Specific Mixed
Articulation limitThe response repeats ‘discover’ rather than distinguishing knowledge types and consequences.
These are descriptive codes, not scores. No composite or rank is calculated. All three state domains are 3/4 and explicitly within the grade-level range; not an exemplary 4 anchor.