Record F9-3 · 2024–2025
F9-3: Source Based Argument
Written in the spring 2025 operational assessment and published in the 2025 anchor set. Florida grade 9; exact age unknown.
Original student excerpt
Many people argue that electric scooters are a terrible idea because of dare devils that ride them, there aren't enough laws for the scooters, and a lot of people place them in bad spots after they've arrived to their destination. This is easliy fixable though. remember that this idea has only recently begun and there will be a lot more additions to laws, and the way scooter work. Massey Braun tells us in paragraph 6 that, "Those who use electric scooters feel that people should embrace them as part of the future. They believe scooters' convenience and ease will prove useful in our continually modernized world."
Four consecutive sentences from the agency-published response; original student spelling, capitalization, and punctuation preserved.
Prompt and conditions
Exact prompt. Write an argumentative essay about whether or not electric scooter rentals should be allowed in cities. Use information from the sources in your essay.
- 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.
“Three counterclaims are identified (dare devil riders; insufficient regulation; left all over after use). Rebuttal does include the use of source-based information, but the Braun quote doesn’t specifically address any of the concerns.”
Read the evidence coding
Conceptual claimCities should allow scooters for traffic, environmental, and convenience benefits.
Ideas and relationships5 coded units. Traffic, emissions/activity, maneuverability, three objections, and expected future regulation form benefit and rebuttal blocks.
AbstractionEmerging
Causal reasoningSpeculative
Qualification / counterargumentCounterargument
Evidence useAll Supplied Sources But Rebuttal Mismatch
OrganizationBenefits Objections Synthesis
Sentence controlMeaning Clear Uneven
Lexical precisionFunctional Mixed
Articulation limitThe quotation about future usefulness does not establish that regulation or parking will improve.
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 above-grade anchor.