Record F10-3 · 2024–2025
F10-3: 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
Florida's caves hold an air of mystery and storytelling to them, feeling like they are holding the keys to a locked treasure that explorers have to find for themselves. As Florida blended with its watery surrowndings it changed, forming new caves and life unheard of anywhere else. That is why it can be hard to visualize just how grandeous it is. For example when Bill Belleville desended into one of florida's caves, his mind was set onto the idea of a "Fred Flinstone" scenario; full of the same caves he's explored before but instead he soon got the feeling of "Orpheus descending into the underworld."(S1,P8).
Four consecutive sentences from the agency-published response; original student spelling, capitalization, 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.
“Although a few errors are present, particularly spelling, overall grade-appropriate command of standard English conventions is demonstrated.”
Read the evidence coding
Conceptual claimCaves merit exploration for mystery, historical record, and visual wonder.
Ideas and relationships4 coded units. Mythic analogy, formation, Indigenous history, and physical scale are grouped as values.
AbstractionSustained
Causal reasoningAnalogical Historical
Qualification / counterargumentNone
Evidence usePaired Sources In Each Section
OrganizationThree Dimensions Preview Development Summary
Sentence controlMeaning Clear
Lexical precisionVivid Mixed
Articulation limitFigurative force sometimes replaces explanation of public or research value.
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; adds figurative style without using an above-grade anchor.