First, without seeing our scale 1. Give a verbal description of how you would mark these stories? 2. What type of feedback does a student who is doing well need? 3. What type of feedback does a student who is about average need? 4. What type of freedback does a student who is doing poorly need? 5. Can you make a scale? Please add distingushing characteristics of each level of the scale if possible. 6. What do you do with impartial or incomplete stories, where the student began to rewrite but did not finsihed? Should they be given zero credit, partial credit, or a separate kind of mark? 7. What does "the point" of the story mean in general? 8. What's the point of the Nils story? 9,. What's the point of the Herodotus story? 10. How important is the point of the story? 11. How do you deal with students who are very creative but may have rewritten something quite different from the original story? 12. Would an automated StoryStation agent to help a student with plot be useful? If so, why? 13. What do you think of our scale? Any suggestions are welcome! Our scale: ---------- Excellent: An excellent story shows that the child understands the ``point'' of the story and should demonstrate some deep understanding of the plot. The student should be able to retrieve all the important links and, not all the details, but the right details. Good: A good story shows that the student was listening to the story, and has recall of the main events and links in the plot. However, the student shows no deeper understanding of the plot, which can often be detected by the writer leaving out an important link or emphasizing the wrong details. Fair: A fair story shows that the child is missing more than one link or chunk of the story, and not only lacks an understanding of the ``point''but also lacks recall of vital parts of the story. The fair story does not really flow. Poor: A poor story has definite problems with recall of events, and is missing substantial amount of the plot. Characters will be misidentifiedand events confused. Often the child writes on the wrong subject or starts off reciting only the beginning of the story.