Identifies no acceptable reasons or answer is irrelevant, inappropriate, incomprehensible, incomplete. Cites example to illustrate reason. Gives an example but does not indicate the general principle the example is intended to illustrate. Gives no relevant examples. Overall quality of answer.
Answer focuses on appropriate reasons.
Answer contains some relevant and appropriate material, but is also general, vague, or contains irrelevant material as well. Answer is irrelevant, tangled, incoherent, incomplete. Each answer was evaluated on the basis of several criteria, and categorized as well-developed, marginal, or underdeveloped. Table 2 contains the distribution of scores for Question 1. Table 4 reports the distribution of results for Question 2, and Table 5 contains the pattern of changes in the quality of answers for Question 2.